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Jim Wilkins wrote:

On May 9, 11:41*am, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
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*"Richard W." wrote:





"Mark Rand" wrote in message
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On Fri, 8 May 2009 17:08:15 -0500, "Terry Coombs"

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Doug Miller wrote:
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Nothing wrong with aluminum for cooking pots.

You don't cook much, apparently.

Try cooking something acidic -- sweet-and-sour sauce, say, or
anything with tomatos in it, like spaghetti sauce -- in an aluminum
pot. Then see how you enjoy the metallic taste in your food.

*I use an aluminum pot to make spaghetti sauce , and have for years .
No
off taste that I can detect . Of course , as old as that pot is , it's
likely got a nice coating of Al Oxide ...

For that matter, I've salted and pickled onions and shallots in an
aluminium
container. To be fair, the pepper corns and chilies may have disguised
any
metallic taste :-)

Mark Rand
RTFM

Human Exposure To Aluminum And Multiple Sclerosis Link, Keele University

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/37943.php

Scientists at Keele University in Staffordshire have discovered the first
evidence of a link between human exposure to aluminum and multiple
sclerosis.

Their research has demonstrated very high (up to 40 times the control
level)
urinary excretion of aluminum in MS, particularly so in the
relapsing-remitting form of the disease. Urinary excretion of iron was
also
significantly elevated in MS and particularly so in the secondary
progressive form of the disease.

Urinary excretion of silicon, the ?natural' antagonist to the potential
toxicity of aluminum, was decreased in MS and particularly so in
secondary
progressive form of the disease.

The research suggests that individuals with MS have a higher body burden
of
aluminum and that their urinary excretion of aluminum is linked to
changes
taking place during the relapsing-remitting stage of the disease.

Dr Christopher Exley, Birchall Centre for Inorganic Chemistry and
Materials
Science, Lennard-Jones Laboratories, Keele University, Staffordshire,
said:
?If, as is currently believed, MS is a disorder resulting from the
interplay
between the environment and susceptibility genes then our observation of
elevated excretion of iron may be indicative of the latter, while
elevated
excretion of aluminum suggests that exposure to aluminum may be the
hitherto
unrecognized environmental factor in MS.?

Other researchers involved in the study we Godwin Mamutse(2), Olga
Korchazhkina(3), Eleanor Pye(2), Stanislav Strekopytov(1), Anthony
Polwart(4), Clive Hawkins(2).

(2) - Department of Neurology, University Hospital of North
Staffordshire,
Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.

(3) - Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University,
Staffordshire, UK.

(4) - School of Life Sciences, Huxley Building, Keele University,
Staffordshire, UK.

KEELE UNIVERSITY
Keele
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG
UK
http://www.keele.ac.uk
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Article URL:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/37943.php

Aluminum was being blamed for Alzheimers for a while.

The problem is that even if their measurements of excretion levels are
correct, the correlation cannot tell cause from effect from common
cause. *One looks for such correlations first before trying to establish
causation, because proving causation is far harder to do.

http://www.portaec.net/local/aluminu..._aluminum.html

Alum is aluminum sulphate:
http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departm.../chemicals.htm

Aluminum is the most common metallic element on earth, and is about 9%
of the mass of the planet. There is more aluminum on earth than living
things. If it causes us any real trouble after all these aeons, then
there is no hope.

http://www.enotes.com/earth-science/aluminum

Joe Gwinn

Joe Gwinn