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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Aluminum pans - a Health Risk?
Message-ID: <115@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 16:47:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 16:47:10 1985
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
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>> I have also heard through the media that there could be a possible connection
>> between Alzheimer's Disease and the use of aluminum pans.

In article <376@phri.UUCP> murphy@phri.UUCP (Ellen Murphy) writes:
>The association between Alzheimer's disease and aluminum, which
>is found in elevated levels in brain tissue of Alzheimer's
>victims, is believed by most workers in the field to be a
>_result_ of their abnormal brain metabolism, not a causal factor.

Even with an abnormal brain metabolism, the brain can't store aluminum
if you don't let the body take in the aluminum in the first place.

>This is based in part on epidemiological studies that show
>that workers in the aluminum industry do not have an elevated
>risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.  I wouldn't worry about
>cooking with aluminum pans.

Why would workers in the aluminum industry absorb
greater than average aluminum?  They don't EAT the stuff
(as we do when we cook with it).  Unless there is some reason
why aluminum workers would aborb greater than average aluminum,
I cannot see the relevance of such a study.

	Frank Silbermann