No foil?

[JByer323]

[quote name='dizzing'] [url="http://www.amazon.com/"]http://www.amazon.com/[/url]gp/product/B00081W03Q/qid=1140737692/s r=8-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1385590-3603023?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=  glance&n=551440<br><br>There's your answer, I  guess.<br>  [/quote] I'd be interested in reading some of the studies done on heavy metals and Alzheimers. If I get a chance at work within the next week or so, I may ask a favor of a doctor I'm on good terms with, and see if he's willing to do a little digging through back issues of medical journals to satisfy my curiosity.

[MR Bubble]

Very interesting, Dizzing. Thanks for the effort. However, I have a feeling we're talking apples and oranges comparing cooking utensils to inhaling crisping aluminum foil.
MR Bubble

[ghunfrytimma]

its definitly more of a traditional thing.....i guess if u want to do it "the original" old school way this would be the way to go....not for me though

[Sonthert]

I have said, several times before, and I guess I'll say one more time,
aluminum foil is safe. In fact, if your ceramic head was made in China
or the Middle East, the foil may be safer than the head.

As I understand the controversy:
Lead is poisonous to our body because when proteins are assembled, if
lead is present, it will sometimes get incorporated into the proteins
because it has the identical valence electron structure as carbon (4).
The body has trouble differentiating between certain elements if they
have similar properties and similar valence electron structures.
Aluminum and boron have similar properties and valence electron
structures (3). Boron is purportedly used by the brain for some
proteins, so aluminum can mistakenly get incorporated, making the
protein useless. This shortage of this protein has been linked to
Alzheimer's. Take all of this with a grain of salt. I'm not sure if
it's even correct as the theory goes, but I was told that once, was the
logic behind the theory that Alzheimer's is caused by aluminum. I can't
imagine why an element as rare as boron would be ever used for
proteins, but I can't say. It sounds suspicious to me. I went to
college in the days when we took zoology and botany (taxonomic
classification), not cellular biology and molecular biology. I'm a
chemical engineer, have pity on me!