Abstract
It was inevitable that once the importance of selenium in animal health had begun to be recognised, the question would be asked whether it was also of significance to humans. The possibility began to be considered seriously following the identification in the early 1930s of alkali disease in livestock in seleniferous areas of the Rocky Mountain states in the USA. If cattle could be poisoned by eating selenium-rich plants, including grain, perhaps a similar effect occurred in farmers and their families who raised these animals and consumed locally grown foods.
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Reilly, C. (1996). Selenium in health and disease II. In: Selenium in Food and Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6494-9_4
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