Bill,
I don't personally know the value of arsenic as a
trace mineral, but one of the funniest things I ever
saw as a list of ingredients for a particular vitamin
product was oxygen.  Ummm, yeah, I think O2 is a very
necessary "nutrient"  Also included was silver, gold
and just about every element on the periodic table.

On that site you posted, Discovery Health, there is a
link to finding your personal health risks.  I tried
to get it but an error always occured.  Also, I
analized(sic) my paleo diet, and they pretty much told
me I was going to die tomarrow.  I wrote them an email
about what the food pyramid should look like(paleo)
and also asked why we eat grains to lose weight when
cattle are fed grains to fatten them.  I don't suppose
I'll ever get a response, but hey, I was feeling kinda
giddy last night.

-kb.
--- Bill Dooley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kenny Brown wrote:
>
> > Not knocking the link, but at this same site you
> can
> > find about a million new food guide pyramids ...
>
> You inspired me to look a bit deeper. A PubMed
> search on arsenic yielded
> 5249 hits. Adding such terms as diet, dietary,
> trace, nutrition, yielded
> various subsets that included a few references to
> arsenic as a nutrient
> using typical weasel words like "is suspected,"
> "some evidence that,"
> and so on. I got the impression that there is still
> little solid
> research into the possible role of a number of
> suspected trace and
> ultratrace nutrients. No point looking further. I'm
> not interested in
> adding supplemental arsenic to my diet, but I'll
> continue to use sea
> salt, just in case. Salt licks have to be paleo.
>
> Bill Dooley
>

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