Re: Nuts vs. Saskatchewan lentils as a source of selenium

[Guest guest]

Saskatchewan lentils. An alternative for brazil nuts as a source of

selenium ? http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/11/29/synchrotron.html

In , Francesca Skelton <fskelton@...>

wrote:> ...Besides walnuts and flax, a brazil nut every now and then

is a wonderful source of selenium - a cancer fighter.

[Guest guest]

Hi Galbe:

Thank you for that article. But when I plug either regular lentils

or pink lentils into CRON-o-Meter it tells me that if I were to eat

nothing but lentils all day (1700 calories of lentils) I would only

get 40 micrograms of selenium. IIRC Dr. Walford suggested aiming for

200 micrograms daily.

Forty is better than none at all. But I do not want to have to eat

8500 calories of lentils every day to make sure the selenium

recommendation is satisfied!

Do you have a source that gives different numbers?

Rodney.

> ...Besides walnuts and flax, a brazil nut every now and

then

> is a wonderful source of selenium - a cancer fighter.

>