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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: Aluminum pans-a health risk?
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 20:37:14 EDT
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	Before we ask whether or not Aluminum itself is a risk, lets consider
the question of dosage.  The amount of flaking you get from Aluminum pans is
miniscule at best, much less than you would get from even a moderate intake of
Antacids.
	As for aluminum in Alzheimer's patients' brains, remember that a lot
of these patients have been on Maalox (Aluminum Hydroxide) for years, so it
may be all artifact.
	(At one time, before they found the organism, someone suggested that
Nickel causes Legionaire's Disease - because high levels of Nickel had been
found in that tissue samples.  As it turned out, the microtome used to cut
the samples was Nickel-plated steel, and the only thing they had picked up
was the shavings.)  
	As for the rate of Alzheimer's rising 40 years after the introduction
of Aluminum pans, try substituting '30 years after the widespread introduction'
of antibiotics' or '30 years after the introduction of chemotherapy for
Tuberculosis'.  There are more Alzheimer's patients because there are much
more old people.

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				Craig Werner
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"