Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!113!Chris.Brown From: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: FAT/MS Message-ID: <16127@bunker.UUCP> Date: 4 Dec 90 16:07:54 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:163/113 - Alternet, Ottawa ON Lines: 32 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 12211 Sorry to tell you, but aluminum's adverse health effects have been written about in medical literature since 1892. There are dozens of articles since, from Britain, Canada, and the United States. The matter has been significantly confused by unethically slanted studies spnsored by aluminum companies. You are right to say that aluminum affects some persons more than others. Out self-help group would descirbe those persons as susceptible, or sensitive, to adverse health effects of aluminum. The acceptance of aluminum in our environment, especially as a cooking vessel material, has been criticized by study after study for decades, in fact, for a century. It's continued use is an excellent example of politics and economics over the health of persons susceptible to the product, to the extent that their illness has been denied for the sake of profit and another factor, which seems to relate to people's inability to acknowledge that they are harming others. Another example of this is smoking, where smokers kill, but we attribute the killing to the cigarette instead. You will note that it is only some persons who develop cancer from smoking, or from being around smokers. The risk to the population as a whole may be low, but for those individuals who develop cancer, it is very high! A similar situation exists with respect to many chemicals we use on a daily basis, which can contribute to many illnesses, including cancer. The Medical profession in Britain went on record in the forties as stating that caustic foods, such as coffee or citric juices, should not be prepared or stored in aluminum. Propaganda from aluminum and cookware companies has denied this, but I prefer to go with the doctors opinion, and that of researchs back as far as aluminum has been used. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!113!Chris.Brown Internet: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com