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| | Salon Health & Body | No sweat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | This awareness may save lives." The message claims that by using antiperspirant, which inhibits sweating, the body loses its ability to purge its toxins, and so they become deposited in the lymph nodes. |
 | | The e-mail's explanation is, to Elgart, "a bunch of crap." Elgart, who has studied sweating, says the worst thing that can happen by using antiperspirants is a little irritation of the skin, and perhaps, some damage to clothing. |
 | | Amy Graves, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of South Florida's College of Public Health, has done research on the subject and says there's no proof to this hypothesis, especially when it comes to antiperspirants, since they contain such small amounts of aluminum. |
| www.salon.com /health/log/1999/05/25/anti_perspirant (460 words) |
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