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- From: sbarnhar@mailbox.mail.umn.edu (Dr. Barnhart)
- Subject: Aluminum cookware: Summary
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- Organization: U of Mn Propoganda Ministry
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:19:23 GMT
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- I recieved several replies to my posting on the "hazards" of aluminum
- cookware. Nearly everyone who replied said the same thing: High
- concentrations of aluminum were found in the brains of Alzheimer's
- patients, although this doesn't mean that aluminum caused the Alzheimer's.
- Rather the reverse may be true, the Alzheimers may have caused the high
- aluminum concentrations. Cruising through the network I found the
- following article, which indicates that the experiments themselves may have
- contaminated the tissue.
-
- One person did seem to indicate that it was a problem and went on to try to
- sell me some kind of EcoHealth product that would cleanse my body, so I
- took that one with a grain of sodium free salt.
-
- The article in question appears below.
-
- Thanks to all who replied. I'll eat easier. :)
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- From: clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI)
- Subject: Study disputes aluminum-Alzheimer's link Keywords: health,
- research, science, general ethnic, special interest ACategory: washington
-
- WASHINGTON (UPI) -- British researchers have disputed previous reports
- linking aluminum to Alzheimer's disease.
- University of Oxford researchers reported Wednesday that previous
- evidence connecting aluminum to Alzheimer's may have been due to
- contamination of tissue samples with aluminum from dust in the air and
- chemical preparations of the samples.
- ``The most direct evidence for the link between aluminum and
- Alzheimer's disease stems from reports of (aluminum traces) found in
- (brain tissue samples),'' wrote Dr. Frank Watt and his colleagues in the
- journal Nature.
- Using a highly sensitive technique known as nuclear microscopy, Watt
- and his colleagues analyzed 105 samples of brain tissue from five
- Alzheimer's patients and two healthy people.
- The researchers found evidence that the samples were contaminated with
- aluminum from chemicals used to prepare the samples, which could account
- for the previous findings.
- ``Aluminum and silicon were...detected in the background and in the
- control tissue, and indicate that there is a possibility of
- contamination,'' they said.
- Accordingly, the researchers tested an additional 80 tissue samples
- from four Alzheimer's patients and two healthy people that were prepared
- without chemical stains and found ``that aluminum was not observed in any
- of the (samples) scanned.
- ``Because analysis of unstained (Alzheimer's disease) tissue using the
- sensitive techniques of nuclear miscroscopy does not indicate increased
- levels of aluminum in (brain tissue), we now believe that previous evidence
- that aluminum is involved in...Alzheimer's disease should be reviewed to
- take into account the probable contamination of tissue by alumino-silicates
- present in most reagents,'' they said.
- Between 2 million and 4 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's
- disease, a devastating disease that inexorably destroys the mind. There is
- no treatment.
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- Shawn Barnhart ! sbarnhar@mailbox.mail.umn.edu
- I'm not selling out, I'm buying in.
-