Copper causes Alzheimer`s in people over 50: Study London:
Copper pipes should not be used as water supply lines as a new
study has found that it leads to build up of metal in body,
increasing the risk of Alzheimer`s, heart diseases and diabetes
in people over 50. Researchers at University of Michigan in US
found that traces of copper from pipes mix with tap water, which
is then consumed by people. As our body cannot process the
metal, it gets accumulated and over a period of time leads to
major health problems like Alzheimer`s in later age, according
to the study that appeared in the American Chemical Society`s
Toxicology journal. Pointing out that Alzheimer`s and heart
diseases are made worse by excess copper and iron, lead
researcher George J Brewer said, "the toxicities are so general
that they are a looming public health problem in diseases of
ageing and in the ageing process itself." Brewer also warned
that those people, whose copper intake is high, lose their brain
function at over three times the norm