Be my guest and do use them...its a Darwin thing!

Julia Altshuler wrote:

> wrote:
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>> Any suggestions on working with aluminum baking sheets?
>>
>>
>> Using Aluminum can be very dangerous and is harmful to brain tissue.
>> It isn't a cooking medium of choice.
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>
> Here's information on that urban legend:
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> http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/valentin.htm
>
> The way I remember it, there were autopsy reports on finding abnormal
> amounts of alluminum in the brains of Alzheimer's patients that made
> some people afraid of using alluminum cookware. I first heard this in
> the 1980s and didn't know the rumors went back to the 1920s until I
> checked Snopes. Later reports debunked the original research, but that
> didn't make as big an impact in the news.
>
> --Lia
>