On Jan 12, 7:52*am, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> wrote:
> > My sister gave me a large canister of mixed nuts for Christmas. *I've
> > eaten the cashews, the almonds, the pecans, and I've managed to give
> > away the hazelnuts, but nobody will touch the Brazil nuts. *Does
> > anybody actually eat them? *Everyone I've talked to has said no.
> > They're the lima bean of the nut world.
>
> Send them to me, I adore them. *You're not supposed to eat a
> ton of them, they are high in selenium and too much is too much.

Too much of anything can be harmful to lethal. The LD50 of water is
about 6 gallons.

LD50 = statistically, the dose that would kill 50% of the population
to which it was administered.

John Kuthe...