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To: janet who wrote (15816)	1/19/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm afraid I can't help. I did have a pasta machine once, though, and couldn't figure out how to clean it, either. It sat around for awhile, and then I gave it away when I moved. Seriously: though Italians complain a great deal about "dolori rheumatici" what they mostly mean is muscle aches. (They have a whole Disease of their own, called "Il Cervicale", which is stiff neck, but then they also get chills on their livers.) In reality, the incidence of arthritis here is, I think, much lower here than in the States. I base this largely on my own Supermarket Surveys--while you're waiting in line, look at the hands of the older people around you, and you'll find significant swelling or deformation is quite rare, hardly the case in North America--but have also been told by a doctor friend that it isn't all that common. Someone really ought to look into this. It seems to me that the determining factors must either be genetic (in which case there isn't much one can do, at least not yet) or dietetic (in which case there's a great deal one could do).