Beware of Aluminum

[SilverInfinity]

SilverInfinity: From my experience, wrapping tomato with aluminum did cause a chemical reaction! Good thing I noticed and threw away the tomato. Here's an article encouraging us to avoid aluminum (unless you're using it to block alien thought waves):

Aluminum

Aluminum is a poison.  It is easily absorbed by the body from a variety of sources.  It is fatal in excessive amounts.  In smaller amounts, it has been linked to Alzheimer's disease. 


Most restaurants use aluminum cookware because it's inexpensive and distributes heat very well.   Sometimes recipes state to use a "non-reactive" saucepan; this is particularly important for tomato sauce.  Aluminum will leach out in even greater amounts with acid foods and can turn the foods off-color (and impart an off-taste).  It's easy to avoid cooking in or using aluminum in products because we have alternatives to use personally.  The struggle is finding the right alternative (like finding an deodorant that works) and being cautious about things out of our control (eating out, for example).
 
Aluminum can be found in:

• Cookware
  
  
• Antiperspirants 
  
  
• Aluminum Foil
  
  
• Things we eat
  • baking powder - find non-alum baking powder
    
  • anti-acids
    
  • some salt
    
  • tap water - use a filter
    
  • aluminum canned foods - many are lined now with enamel or plastic - particularly important to choose tomatoes that are in enamel-lined cans because tomatoes react with the aluminum and draw more of the poisons out and into the food (and who knows how long those cans sit on most store shelves allowing for age and time for more aluminum to leach into the food!)  The cans of tuna we stock are lined with enamel.
    
  • aluminum soda cans

To be on the safe side, with all this exposure to aluminum, take simple steps to avoid this potential danger in daily lives by switching to a safe deodorant, using fresh foods over canned, using lined cans, filtering drinking water, getting non-alum baking powder and using products that choose non-alum, and using safter cookware.

URL: http://www.deliciousorganics.com/controv...uminum.htm

[SilverInfinity]

It looks like I need to avoid Antiperspirants, tap water, and aluminum foil. Without antiperspirants I don't smell so good after getting a sweat, and tap water is just convenient. Damn. I have to do without.

[Pallas]

So you're planning to be stinky and dehydrated? ;)

[SilverInfinity]

I have no choice! lol.

[William]

What can we use instead of Aluminum foil?

[Astrojewels]

Aluminum is a very low grade metal, it is the combination of ingredients that makes it lethal in certain products, aluminum foil is ok to use for short periods like re-heating food in your oven but you are better buying a oven proof dish with a lid, just don’t store your food in the foil, for refrigeration use cling wrap or a good quality plastic container with a lid.

Throw away any cook ware made from aluminum, make a life time purchase with stainless steel, it will last forever, use an iron skillet and not a non-stick Teflon aluminum base pan. If you want to drink soda buy it in a glass bottle, there are many deodorants out there that do not have toxic chemicals in them, it is just a matter of searching and you will find a solution to aluminum, it is cheap and mass produced and the reason why it is used as most of us tend to choose the cheaper product.