[modeleng] Alzheimer's & Aluminum

If a family fed itself using aluminum cookware and a high percentage of them 
came down with Alzheimer's, there is still no necessary tie.  Could be the 
shared environment (aluminum cookware) or the shared heredity or a 
combination of both encouraged the Alzheimer's.  My Mother died of 
Alzheimer's and that was not pleasant.  Even with costs of help and 
treatment not an issue, Mrs Regan went through a difficult time.  Charles

<<sinp>>

> Too, I wonder if Alzheimer's is not a heiriditary thing.  Old gentleman
> across the street from me when I was a lad came down with it before he 
> died
> and I heard that his daughter (who he lived with) also had it before she
> passed away.  If I were one of the daughter's children, I think I would
> worry about getting it in my old age.  A study of a convent of nuns has
> shown that tests run when they were young may have indicated the ones who
> would "catch" Alzheimer's at a later age.  This would seem to indicate 
> that
> aluminum had nothing to do with the problem after all. If the problem 
> could
> be detected in a person's 20's, maybe something could be done to prevent 
> it
> appearing in old age.  Then again, it would be sort of like knowing when 
> one
> was going to kick the bucket, IE: you might not want to know that your
> future had Alzheimer's waiting in it unless an early cure was invented.
>
> Jesse in Tennessee

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