On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Mary wrote:

> On a  low carb paleo diet would we be getting enough zinc? On the ADD list ,
> they mention zinc deficiency, but most of the people on that list are on SAD
> diet. my son gets venison almost every day which should have plenty of
> minerals (grass/naturally/ wild -fed) What do you think?? what about
> selenium, the ADD list also mentioned selenium?

The RDA for zinc is 15mg/day.  Venison has about 2.9
mg/100g.  So you'd have to eat about a half kilo to get that
much.  It has very little selenium, but brazil nuts are a good
source of selenium, with almost 3,000 mcg/100g.  Brazil nuts also
have 4.6 mg/100g of zinc.  The RDA for selenium is about
70mcg/day.  It would be hard to eat enough venison to get that
much, but a handful of brazil nuts would do it easily.

Todd Moody
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