I know that tin cans in Holland still contain tin (there might be laws
against somewhere else?) even if they don't look like it, and a friend who
once had to design new tins in university told me that by making them look
better, with more fancy shapes on the sides and easy-opening-things, the tin
was weaker and could get into the food easier.Buying tin became more
expensive so tin can makeing comanys use al sorts of mixes of used metal
that might not all be as good as they should be

It might also be good to test your drinking water, tin might be used to
solder your pipes somewhere, maybe not in your house, but somewhere up the
system, that might also be where the mercury comes from...

Frederiek


>From: Theola Walden Baker <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Diagnostic medical tests
>Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:17:43 -0500
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Max Plyshevsky"
> >and hair mineral analysis.
>
>Funny you should mention.
>
>I received results of my hair mineral analysis today.  Of the 11 essential
>minerals and 9 toxic elements tested, all fell within their reference
>ranges
>except mercury and tin which were high.
>
>mercury 3.79 (rr < = 1.69)
>tin 0.3718 (rr < = 0.1825)
>
>I eat canned tuna about 4 times a week which may account for the mercury.
>Also eat, but less frequently, sardines and pink salmon.  But the tin?
>Tuna
>is the only canned food I regularly eat.  "Tin" cans aren't really made out
>of tin anymore, or are they?  The tuna cans look like steel to me. Once in
>a
>rare blue moon I might use a can of tomatoes in a recipe or a can of
>coconut
>milk.  But that's the only canned food I eat.   Anybody have a clue where I
>could be getting so much tin from?   Are there other sources of mercury
>that
>could be in my diet?  Also, any ideas about how to purge/eliminate the
>excesses?
>
>Theola

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