Show DAILY HEALTH SERVICE SERVICE 4 I Aluminum Cooking Ware Ware I 1 II I Cant Can't Harm Healt Health of M User I I V By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical As Association an and of f Hy- Hy gels gel tho the Health Magazine Th Tho propaganda against alumInum aluminum and baking num nuin cooking utensils powder poder containing alum 1 has been so RO extensive in recent years ears that that in investigators in In- in Iii various medical l laboratories lab lab- b- b oratories have given much time to V the study cf dt tills this substance V A lon long g s series of or fm investigations have havo V be been n out by Professor I F. F p P. P Underhill and his associates in the physiologic laboratory In In Yale un university V The significant facts wore determined that aluminum L when taken into th the body i is absorbed ab V circulates in the thc blood and settles in some somi of the tissues An excess ss of this substance over a certain V tain tairi small z amount is promptly excreted ex Cx- ex- ex V from tH tile the bod body so some 10 of ot it Inthe in Iii I the tho bile bUc and nd sonic some of oCI it I in tho urine A small amount of al aluminum I may be bc found in the bl bloodS blood od of lot normal normal nor nor- normal nor nor- S mal persons although some some people do not have aluminum In the blood V The Thc amount of ot aluminum l also also varies from time to time As ml might ht bo be expected aluminum occurs alson also I in VIII n many vegetables and meats Fairly large quantities were found I in cherries and onions in hi lettuce milk mik flour and liver lver Aluminum I Was a also found in string bens beans beets cantaloupe sweet corn corn peaches pears and potatoes s. s Lite 1 m was WIS found In apples eggs lemons and nd nd watermelon lon Since aluminum Is taken into the i body therefore by by the tho eating of ot the thc substances t that t have la e been menton men men mentioned ton d It It is Is' Is unlikely that the very verb ver rV y small amount of or the substance that thal might t come by bY way o. o of al aluminum from flom cooking utensils and l I alum in in baking powder could be armful to th the bod body JU Just t as the soil BOn o of S IQ V states contains more than the soil son or of otherS o o also the soil soi ot of certain states Mates Is richer in aluminum than is the soil 51 of ct others Organs from fron people who hai ha dlee died due to various different st states diseases In were examined ex ex- x emmett to fBi out gut th their lr content of ot aluminum I It Ii W wits was lS found that the livers of ot tho Je who had lived and died in Michigan contained e more moro aluminum example than of or those thos who Vho iH had d lived and md dl died d in Florida Aluminum was S. found in the livers of men who had har died with h high blood pre pressure rc and also of ot those thoM who had lad 1 lied led with wh low blood pressure pres pres- sU sure hence n no nO apparent relationship relation ship could be ho fou found rl bet between cen the intake of ot fV aluminum and these con con con- Neither cou could d any relation relationship ion ship be bc rot found rl between the Intake of aluminum m and amI hardening of th ar ar- ar teries V There Is is o of course a a. possibility that hat n a lar largo o overdose of ot aluminum w would uld b be harmful It It Is possible to poison polson an nn animal with wih an 1 overdose e of ot copper of phosphorus of ot calcium calcium cal cal- or of ot many other substances which are considered essential to man human life UCe It Ir Is Js hard to conceive however how a dose of aluminum sufficient to he be be harmful could be had bad through baking powder or through the use nse of ot aluminum cooking cook- cook lug ing utensils particularly since the evidence seems seems' to indicate that the aluminum does not not accumulate inthe in inthe the bod body V The Tho burden of ot proof Is still on tho propagandists who have at attacked attacked attacked at- at tacked the use Ube of t aluminum mV m rather than on those who ho have ha promo promoted ed the additions to to our modern civilization civil civil- civI- civI that are re represented V by aluminum products ts |