Something else that just ocurred to me which you might want to consider.

I drink a lot of tea and, up until now, I've been boiling my tea in an electric pot, of sorts. I don't really know what they're called but it's a plastic unit that plugs into the wall, inside are metal coils which heat up quite rapidly. Now I hate to be the paranoid sort, or to invoke paranoia in others, but after several months of using this instrument I noticed the metal coils look .. corroded .. as if some of the metal had been worn away. Well, where do you think that metal is going? In my stomach! Furthermore, I'm told that teflon and some other cookingware (you know, the non-stick kind) tends to deteriorate after a time, and all the little metal scrapings at the bottom of your pan are also likely being consumed.

Now this doesn't mean we should all be running around hysterically, paranoid of every modern devide that we use (don't florescent lights contain mercury as well, for example?) but it certainly helps to know your products. I try to be a conscious consumer. You might want to make an itinerary of product you use and ask yourself if there could be metal contamination involved. For example, I use deodorant rather than anti-perspirant. Anti-perspirant (and SOME deodorants) contains aluminumchloride -- and while so-called "Health Officials" will tell you that it's perfectly safe applying to your skin, they aren't taking into consideration the fact that the human body is porous and can absorb these products even if they aren't being injested orally. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have something called "aluminumchloride" flowing through my bloodstream just so that I can smell better!