I have a cousin who is an OB/GYN. She once told me a story about a cadaver
she and a bunch of her fellow students carved up one day. The stiff was a
60-ish white male who had reportedly consumed a case of beer from aluminum
cans every day for several years before his demise. When the class cut up
the cranial cavity, they found copious amounts of aluminum.

Dave Fobare

At 10:18 AM 7/9/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:34:03 +0200, Hans Kylberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>Aluminium is very common in most soils...
>
> >At 12:38 2000-04-20 -0700, Jean-claude wrote:
> >There is a world of difference between elements presents in soils and their
> >presence in plants . Plants don't suck out every minerals present in soil
>
> >But it is impossible to avoid getting some soil in the stomach together
>with
> >plants, especially roots. Ancient teeth have scratchmarks showing that
> >our ancestors also ate soil.
>
>I dig up that post when collecting some info about aluminium
>(alu* for the us).
>
>Eating soil....
>
>We had such aluminum discussions some time ago, and I recall the very
>dangerous effects aluminium can have.
>Now recently I thought of a mineral preperation to get some more
>and more seldom minerals ... in the case our soil don't have it
>sufficuently anymore.
>I still have something called "Schindele Mineralien" and "Luvos"
>which is actually ground soil...
>Very old soild, not tuouched by agriculture I suppose.
>
>So far so good, but the label of both say, this things have some 20%
>of aluminium-oxid.
>So at least some soils are rich of alumininium.
>I suppose that this form of aluminium is rather inert,
>as alu binds strongly to any oxidants.
>
>Has anybody any information if aluminium problems to have been documented
>from other sources than from metallic aluminium?
>
>Somehow that "earth" makes a good feeling, despite a little sand-like
>sound between the teeth for the first seconds :-)
>
>Amadeus