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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com