[Gasification] Gasification Digest, Vol 11, Issue 35

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Max

I get your point. The Scientifically correct way of determining whether
high Aluminum intake causes Alzheimers would be to do a Double Blind Study.

I have never seen such a double blind study. All I have seen are
statements to the effect "Excess Aluminum is found in the brains of
people with Alzheimers, so you should reduce your aluminum intake. I
have never seen a credible Scientific study which showed that excess 
Aluminum in ones diet causes Alzheimers.

See:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2331496&dopt=Abstract
from which I extracted teh closing sentence of the abstract:

"These results suggest that raised tissue aluminum concentrations 
reported in Alzheimer's disease are not an exaggeration of a normal 
ageing process, are not likely to be simply secondary to increased 
dietary aluminum intake, and that Alzheimer's disease does not represent 
the chronic toxic effect of moderately raised aluminum levels at the 
upper end of the normal distribution."

Best wishes,

Kevin

Max Kennedy wrote:
> "Based on my own anecdotal evidence, I would say that cooking in
> Aluminum pots does not cause Alzheimers. "
> 
> Kevin, I'm afraid that statement is like saying I have a 102 year old
> grandfather who smokes a pack a day, has for 80 years and he doesn't
> have cancer so cigarettes don't cause cancer.  They do, aluminum
> similarly influences the onset of alzheimers in that it may induce
> the early onset of the disease, promote it where it would not have
> appeared at all or it may have no effect in the case of a
> particularly resistant person.  Sounds like your mother is one of
> those.  Biological systems, of which people are an example, do not
> react uniformly.  What science tells us is that exposure to certain
> materials is more or less likely to cause a problem.  Exceptions
> abound.
> 
> Max K.
> 
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