Guest guest Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 My recollection is that Dr W recommends one Brazil nut a day. on 3/4/2004 2:57 PM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote: > Hi folks: > > My recollection is that in BT120YD Dr. Walford recommended taking two > brazil nuts a day to ensure sufficient selenium. > > Here are a few numbers on that issue: The selenium RDA appears to be > 55 mcg. The 'Institute of Medicine', whoever they are, suggests > a 'tolerable upper intake' of 400 mcg. The average brazil nut > contains about 110 mcg. So two of them supply nearly four times the > RDA, and in addition you are consuming more from the food you eat. > > It seems that on average I get a little more than the RDA from my > food. On the other hand the RDA may be too low. In any event it > seems to me, fwiw, that one nut a day plus what I get in food should > be more than enough. > > http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/supplements/selen.html#rda > > http://snipurl.com/4w1x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 from pg 187 of " Beyond " : one or two Brazil nuts a day. on 3/4/2004 2:57 PM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote: > Hi folks: > > My recollection is that in BT120YD Dr. Walford recommended taking two > brazil nuts a day to ensure sufficient selenium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 Minutiae, like the fact that brazil nut content of selenium varies from 3 - 497 ppm? (per duke's db) That's 85 to 14090 micrograms per oz. I'll stick with the MV. ----- Original Message ----- From: Francesca Skelton Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [ ] Re: Iodine JW: let's not get fanatical here. So what if one Brazil nut has more/lessselenium than the next one? Do you really think it'll matter over yourlifetime? (IMHO no!)Moderation also extends to not obsessing over minutae - after all mentalhealth counts too.on 3/25/2004 12:57 PM, jwwright at jwwright@... wrote:> The funny thing about plants is they tend to not be same, whereas meats are> much the same. I would expect each nut to be specialized in some way. Most> have too many calories (and they're not cheap). So I have avoided getting too> fond of one or the other. I didn't pick up on pistachios because the Iodine> data is not in SR16. I've added other things to my spreadsheet as they come> up, but the data is sketchy. Relying on one brazil nut to have the selenium I> want is silly also - like God made all brazil nuts the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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