SC - Alzheimers and Aluminum

[Alma B. Johnson]

FYI, zinc has also been pinpointed as a possible culprit.  But the issue is
this.  No matter that aluminum was found in the brain lesions of patients
diagnosed with Alzheimer's, there is still no information that suggests
aluminum is the cause.  It may simply be a symptom.  Indeed, in a disease
state where the only positive diagnosis can occur post mortem, by the
presence of these lesions, we are still at the stage where almost everything
is hypothesis and conjecture.

Personally, I got rid of my magnalite cookware because it pitted so badly,
and cooked less evenly than steel or steel clad cookware.  But I drink tons
of diet coke from cans, and find nothing objectionable there, nor will I
cease using my vitamin C and zinc lozenges to help ward off colds just
because these metals have been linked in an uncertain way to degenerative
brain disorders.   I do not, however, chew on a spare piece of lead while
thinking, nor do I keep the drinking glass close to the jar of mineral
spirits.

Of course, there's always the possibility that I'm losing it even now.  My
brain saw the subject lines of "dogs" and "Korean frumenty" and came up with
recipe possibilities that possibly only Ras can appreciate as well as I, and
I keep reading Adamantius' signature to declare him crown prince of
Ostgardr.

Or maybe it's the subtle influence of Mario Nebbits again.

Rhiannon Cathaoir-mor
South Downs, Meridies

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