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- From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Subject: Re: Aluminum cookware: Recipe for disaster?
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:14:11 GMT
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- In article <sbarnhar-171192153648@morril6t-19.micro.umn.edu>, sbarnhar@mailbox.mail.umn.edu (Dr. Barnhart) writes:
- |> The other night as I finished steaming rice in my aluminum cookware, my
- |> roomie starts telling me about how bad aluminum cookware is. It's putting
- |> aluminum oxide in the body, causing all kinds of health problems, the most
- |> significant of which is the increase in susceptibility to Alzheimer's
- |> disease. She went on to say that anything with aluminum compounds in it
- |> (deoderant, too) that we put anywhere near something we may consume/absorb
- |> contributes to this.
-
- Recent research in Oxford (I think it was) seems to indicate that
- Aluminium (as we spell it here) is not to be found in vast quantities
- in Alzheimer's plaques in sufferers' barins, as was previously
- thought. The researchers were interviewed on the radio here a week or
- so ago, and suggested that the previous results arose from the stains
- used when microscopically examining the plaques. The new work had
- looked for Al using some radio-activation technique (I don't recall
- which one).
-
- These results are considered controversial, not least by the people
- who came up with the Al idea in the first place... ;-)
-
- |> [...]
- |>
- |> Cross posted to alt.folklore.science, alt.folklore.urban and
- |> misc.consumers.
-
- (Note that I've edited the followup to include a.f.s., since it's a
- generally good place to thrash this sort of thing out.)
-
- My advice would be: keep the pans, at least for the time being (pans
- are so beastly expensive nowadays, anyway...)
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- Robin (come back John Drummond) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
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