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From: cindy@ada-uts.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Healthy Pans
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 09:55:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 09:55:00 1985
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>The reason macrobiotic diets stress not using aluminum pans
>is that you are supposed to use IRON cookware.  Many macrobiotic
>diets need some sort of iron supplement.  Cooking in iron cookware
>is a major source or iron in one's diet.  Some doctors attribute
>the fact that many more people have iron deficiencies now than in the past
>to the change from iron to aluminum or stainless cookware.

    If this is the reason, which to me seems to be the most reasonable,
 then why don't the books say so?  These books always say DON'T USE
 ALUMINUM!!!  but they never say why...
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