Re: pinhole Aluminum on my Mind

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From: Paula Weisman (weisman7@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 20 1999 - 02:03:53 PDT 

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From: "Paula Weisman" <weisman7@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: pinhole Aluminum on my Mind
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 02:03:53 PDT

I read 20 years ago that if you scrub stainless steel abrasively, it can
also release trace metals - nickel, etc. I don't remember the source.
Paula

>From: "BenP" <bpitt@n2.com>
>Reply-To: "Pinhole Listserv" <pinhole@exploratorium.edu>
>To: "Exploratorium Pinhole" <pinhole@exploratorium.edu>
>Subject: pinhole Aluminum on my Mind
>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:10:13 -0700
>
>My understanding is that some research, now at least a couple of decades
>old, found increased levels of aluminum in the brains of some alzheimers
>victims. Some people felt this indicated a causal relationship, and it
>received some publication with that interpretation. However, although
>researchers felt a correlation was established, it was an after-the-fact
>observation, and it was later publicized that no causal relationship had
>been established. (i.e. just because we find scab tissue at the sites of
>skin abrasions, this correlation does not establish that scabs cause
>abrasions) I do not recall who funded any of the research, who made the
>claims or counter claims, or whether the original claim of a correlation
>was actually ever debunked.
>
>I still don't cook in aluminum. (Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean
>noone's after me!) Anyway, good stainless is more durable and easier to
>clean; Cast Iron is just plain wonderful (if properly seasoned),
>apparently does add small amounts of usable iron to one's diet in some
>circumstances, and lasts forever.
>
>Ben
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