"Dave Bugg"  wrote in message
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> Mike wrote:
> > The bottom line is, there's no such thing as a free lunch.  Every
> > modern convenience has a price.
>
> > Aluminum cookware?  Alzheimer's disease.
>
> Jeez, aluminum has been disproved or, at best, relegated to an unknown role
> (if any) in alzheimers.
>
> From the Alzheimers Society:
>
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/Facts_about_dementia/Risk_factors/info_aluminium.htm
> A number of environmental factors have been put forward as possible
> contributory causes of Alzheimer's disease in some people. Among these is
> aluminium.
>
> There is circumstantial evidence linking this metal with Alzheimer's disease
> but no causal relationship has yet been proved. As evidence for other causes
> continues to grow, a possible link with aluminium seems increasingly
> unlikely.
>
> This information sheet looks at the circumstantial evidence and current
> medical and scientific views.
>
> Researchers believe that, in the majority of those affected, Alzheimer's
> disease results from a combination of different risk factors rather than a
> single cause.
>
> Such factors, which vary from person to person, may include age, genetic
> predisposition, other diseases or environmental agents.
>
> The chief symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are progressive decline of memory
> and other higher mental functions. These changes are associated with the
> loss of brain cells and the development of two kinds of microscopic damage
> in the brain - the so-called plaques and tangles. Plaques consist of an
> abnormal deposit of a particular protein called beta amyloid between the
> brain cells. Tangles occur within cells and are formed from abnormal
> thread-like deposits of a protein called tau, which is normally part of the
> cell's 'skeleton'.
>
> For a discussion of other factors see the Alzheimer's Society information
> sheets: Am I at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease? and Genetics and
> Alzheimer's disease.

Yet again you rely on the internet for your information.

And yet again a visit to your local library is in order:
http://www.alz.org/resources/resources/rtrlalum.asp
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