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Burgers For 'Alzheimer's Epidemic'

Rense.com

 

http://www.rense.com/general51/epi.htm

 

New Book Blames Burgers

For 'Alzheimer's Epidemic'

canada.com

4-11-4

 

 

EDMONTON -- A new book could add to the woes of the mad cow ravaged beef

industry.

 

The book is called Dying for a Hamburger: Modern Meat Processing and the

Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease.

 

It was written by Toronto coroner Dr. Murray Waldman and Marjorie Lamb and

it blames hamburgers for an " epidemic of Alzheimer's disease. "

 

Waldman argues hamburger is the main source of prions, a type of malformed

protein which trigger the disease in the aged.

 

But Canada's leading expert on prions says Waldman doesn't know what he's

talking about.

 

Dr. David Westaway of the University of Toronto says Alzheimer's isn't a

prion disease, and adds that experiments have shown it isn't transmissible.

 

Waldman also quotes the studies of University of Indiana epidemiologist Dr.

Hugh Hendrie.

 

But Hendrie says his work has been misinterpreted.

 

Despite such denunciations, Waldman insists his science is strong.

 

The book, published by McClelland and Stewart, will hit stores in the next

two weeks.

 

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http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=25207E11-E591-4DEC-83AC-26F05114C

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