Selenium (Se) is an essential nutrient for human and animals. Selenium acts as protective agent against heavy metal toxicity, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. For babies and children, however, the core of Se-providing foods may be much smaller than for adult, considering their unvaried food. Therefore, Se should be added to the milk formula in order to prevent lack of Selenium in babies particularly.
Selenium concentration in milk formula and in cow’s milk is generally lower than in breast milk. Once more proven that exclusively 6-month breastfeeding is very important, it posses many advantages for baby. But, however, selenium content in breast milk depends on mother’s food consumption. Consume meat and cereal product for mother is a main option to raise selenium content in breast milk. Besides, egg, dairy product, fruits and vegetables are also contains Se in less concentration.
From the above we know that selenium is very important to prevent our babies from heavy metal toxicity, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. Therefore milk formula is always fortified by selenium in order to meet a selenium demand in metabolic pathway of our babies. Finally, I profoundly hope our babies will always on a perfect condition, so they can make a better place for the world in the future.
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