| Show Advice f. f on Your Health I By Morris S S Ed Editor r Journal our American m cn M Medical Week a after er week qU questions come come in regarding the possible danger of eating food cooked in aluminum cooking utensils A woman from Seattle Wash writes I have heard have heard many discuss discussions discussions dis dis- dis- dis cuss ions about the use of aluminum aluminum num for cooking What are the tho effects on food if any I would like you to print your views in your column Propaganda as to the possible I danger resulting from aluminum cooking utensils is so persistent that we are inclined to suspect an ulterior motive in the back back- ground This problem has been Investigated many times in many different nations It has been proven that there Is no basis forthe for the belief that there Is harm harm to Ito health from eating food cooked in aluminum utensils In 1936 the British ministry of health made a study of the amount of aluminum that could be absorbed by food cooked In aluminum utensils They found that the metal Is taken up In small amounts only Alkalis act unfavorably on aluminum so cooking utensils are likely to be damaged if they are cleaned too often olten with soda There is no evidence that alumInum aluminum alu alu- minum absorbed as a result of the use of these utensils has any harmful effect on the ordinary consumer For some time a dentist in Toledo associated with a diet organization organization organization or or- has been agitating against the use of aluminum cooking utensils His agitation is based on incomplete or unsatIsfactory unsatisfactory unsatisfactory evidence The number of studies that have been made on the subject Is considerable In Germany the federal bureau of health made madean an extensive inquiry and was un un- able to find that there w wu vu as harm to health as a of taking In aluminum from co etc II ing utensils In this country reports report ha han been made by many tors Today aluminum prep preparations are used in the of ot disease without producing 1 harm It Is strange that tu views should be agitated Without any scientific reason V When aluminum Is taken 1 In inthe the body a small amount of ot tj 1 substance remains remains chiefly in t IJ liver and spleen Traces are found in other tissues Most lost of 1 the aluminum is promptly CS' CS v j from the body in the and in the bile Thus the My takes care easily of the cant amounts of the metal tI Ml tl might be collected by food in this type of utensiL j Unfortunately the agitators have Insisted that there Is Ii s sort of relationship between alt minum and cancer There Is S DO II DOthe the slightest evidence to nm the view that the use of alum num or any other type o 0 coo cooing Ing utensil has anything to S with the cause of CanCAs cancer As an indication of ot the coa cOS' mercial propaganda behind thi attack it should be point ot I Ision that the federal trade sion in July 1935 cited a caw of earthenware for claiming that food cooked aluminum causes ulcer alters w wand canett and cancerous growths In 1 this federal group cited manufacturer this time a a i of ot iron cooking utensils for lot that the use of Is deleterious to health li 11 lious P ous OU and furthers the gro grow grOWth cancer Against thIs m manlO nw the federal trade epos con Issued and d slon a cease order |
