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Why we should not cook food in aluminum utensils?

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Food cooked in aluminium vessels or in aluminium foil, can absorb aluminium because aluminium dissolves into food and water during the cooking process. This absorbed aluminium goes into the bloodstream and accumulates in different organs in different people causing a multitude of effects. Some unpleasant effects of eating food cooked in aluminium are hyper-acidity, peptic ulcers, indigestion, flatulence, skin problems like pigmentation, eczema, dandruff and chronic inflammation of the intestine, which may be diagnosed or misdiagnosed as Ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or as chronic amoebic dysentery. Aluminium reduces growth of bone and predisposes to osteoporosis.

Aluminium as a metal is not good for human body. When we cook or drink in aluminium utensils small quantity of aluminium gets in to our body. But due to its properties aluminium neither gets digested nor gets out of the system as waste.Unfortunately the impact is not overnight and after many years if someone shows up cancer symptoms, impact of aluminium is ignored. It is a slow poison.


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