Re: [pronut-hiv] Selenium content of pumkin seeds

["George M. Carter" <gmc0@ix.netcom.com>]

Selenium content of pumkin seeds
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It probably depends not just on the food but as much on the soil content of 
selenium. Keshan's disease in China, caused by a Coxsackie virus, only is 
pathogenic to human hosts when there is a serious selenium 
deficiency--which arises due to a depletion in the soil.

George M. Carter

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 Lilian Wambua wrote:
>
>This was quit informative. I come from West Africa and pumkin seeds are a
>part of our eating habits. I wander what food stuff eaten in West Africa
>contain selenium. Can you advise me on this?


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