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This comprehensive guide details selenium’s importance within human and animal integrated antioxidant systems and includes discussions of such topics as effective usage of selenium supplements, its biochemistry and metabolism, and recent findings and future directions for selenium research.
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"We are what we eat." Given the accruing evidence for the impact of diet--especially antioxidants--on health, Surai (a Russian scientist now a professor of nutritional biochemistry at the Scottish Agricultural College) presents an up-to-date review of selenium (Se), which he introduces as the most controversial, least documented of the trace elements in relation to health. Following an overview of how antioxidants fight free radical oxidation damage, he discusses in question-and-answer format what form of Se is the most easily assimilated; evidence for its immunologic role in fighting many diseases (though heart disease, not cancer as he states, is the major public health problem in developed countries); and Se-enriched animal products. Distributed in North America by Blackwell Professional. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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