[Turnsky]

I thought they'd known about this **** for like the past 20 years?

they prolly forgot 

[Ford Prefect]

Like hell they forgot! I'll teach those mailmen to put frogs in my margarine! I've told them a million times! My umbrella stand is not a tool for fixing locomotives! Now someone fetch my radish sandwiches! I'm going to be late for the Battle of Hastings!

[Nix]

Aldo: we basically have the same stuff in our breasts that women do. It just doesn't actually work.

Given that male breast cancer makes up about 1% of all cases, I think it's fair to say there is a male-female biological difference.  Male breast tissue has few if any lobules & less tissue, for example.  Granted, though, it was wrong to suggest it was down to particular tissue absence (honest mistake).

How embarassing must it be to have breast cancer as a male? Imagine all the discussions.

Does anyone remeber watching "The price Is Right" way back, the announcer named Rod Roddy, or something to that effect.  "Coome oonn Doowwn" was his trademark line I think.  Anyway, he died of "breast cancer".  I only remember it because I had never heard of a man dying from breast cancer  untill I saw something on CNN's web regarding Rod Roddy's death.  It specifically said "breast cancer", and it's stuck in my head every day since.  "Don't end up like Rod Roddy, prevent breast cancer."  No joke, but I'm sure you're laughing anyway! 

[aldo_14]

I'm laughing at the poor sod being named Rod Roddy.

[Wild Fragaria]

At a wildass guess, it would be difficult for aluminum particles to get into the soft-tissues and blood works through one's skin unless the particles were really freaking small.  Ingestion is another issue entirely.  That deal with the drinking water is pretty scary.  I should hope they got their asses sued off, though that won't do much good for the people who were drinking that stuff.

I've been hearing about possible links between aluminum and Alzheimer's for as long as I've been hearing about the disease.  Mom and Dad got paranoid enough that they ditched all of their aluminum pots and pans for stainless and cast iron.  Cast iron I can understand, but honestly, is the chromium in stainless any better than aluminum, IF you could actually get any meaningful amount into your system by cooking in it?

Thing is, Dad's a pretty good metallurgist, so I would expect him to know that sort of thing.  And I do know for a fact that cooking in cast iron is a good way to up your iron intake if you aren't a big beef fan.

Discussion?

I think it’s pretty silly to throw away all the pots and pans because of some preliminary report on the aluminum and Alzheimer's disease.  I once told by a woman that not to wash my dirty dishes with dish detergen it can cause cancer, silly goose.

[karajorma]

People need to realise that life causes cancer. You only need to be worried about things with a strong correlation to causing cancer.

[Wild Fragaria]

I think she will die quicker from using the dirty plates and silverware than getting cancer from the clean ones