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Selenium (Se) is an essential health element becoming rare in food as a result of intensive plant production. Indeed, several enzymes contain selenium in the form of the unusual selenocysteine amino acid. Selenium was found an essential nutrient in the late 1950s, when selenium was found to replace vitamin E in the diets of rats and chicks for the prevention of vascular, muscular, and hepatic lesions...