Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: About aluminimum cookware

Hi Windchimes,

I got a chuckle from the irony in your question "I have to wonder how many Alzheimer's patients are asked what they cooked their food in over the years ....".

Changes in taste due to reactivity with higly acidic or alkaline foods can occur with metals such as aluminum, copper and cast iron.

If you are concerned about aluminum then you have to be concerned about the amount you ingestion from tea, beer, baked goods, drinking water, toothpaste, antacids, etc. For example, the anti-caking agent sodium aluminum sulphate is found in baking powder and other commonly used cooking ingredients.

The 1960s speculation about the role of dietary aluminum in disease, particularly Alzheimer's, spawned a great deal of research over intervening decades. Today it is known that while aluminum can migrate into food from cookware, utensils and wrapping materials the amount leached is negligible and more than 99% of it passes through the digestive system unabsorbed. There is an excellent Health Canada Review of Dietary Exposure to Aluminum on their web site.

BTW - it looks like you had the snow and we had the cold. The temperatures up here on the northern prairies were lower than -35 C and if you include the windchill it was lower than -50 C for over a week. However, there is only a sprinkling of snow covering the ground. Usually by now we have more than a foot. We worry about losing perennials this year.

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