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This is an old book on trace elements in human beings.Contents: Preface vii I   The Periodic Table of the Elements 1 II  The Beginnings of Life and Its Development to Man 9 III Trace Elements in Mammals 23 IV  The Essential Trace Elements 31 V   Requirements, Intake and Excretion of Essential Trace Elements 45 VI  Chromium Deficiency and Atherosclerosis 66 VII The Non-Essential Trace Elements 85 VIII Cadmium, High Blood Pressure and Water 97 IX  Lead: an Increasing Potential Hazard 115 X   Balancing Your Diet to Correct Partitioning of Foods 124 XI  Pollution by Industrial metals 142 XlI Serious Local Pollution by metals with Effects on Health 156    About the Author 172    Index 173 Please contribute back by OCRing and Spellcheck/Proofreading this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 11 (or similar) for doing this work in a relatively easy way. If you plan to do that please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Please upload back the final pdf. Thank you.Please note that the high quality scan images are posted here for a specific purpose – to make it easy to OCR/spellcheck the book and not spend 100 hours doing that from a crappy, lossy compressed pdfs that are sometimes posted here. So please don’t waste your time asking why this is not a pdf file. Instead please contribute a few hours of your time and OCR and proofread the posted book. Thank you.