Conor Reilly 
The Nutritional Trace Metals 

The Nutritional Trace Metals covers the roles played by trace
metals in human metabolism, a relatively neglected area of human
metabolism and nutrition. The book focuses its attention on the
vital roles played by the relatively small number of trace metal
nutrients as components of a wide range of functional proteins. Its
structure and content are largely based on the approach adopted by
the author, Professor Conor Reilly, during more than 30 years of
teaching nutrition to a wide range of undergraduate and
postgraduate students.

The introductory chapter covers the roles of metals in life
processes, the metal content of living systems and metals in food
and diets. This is followed by chapters, each dealing with an
individual trace metal. Those discussed are iron, zinc, copper,
selenium, chromium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, boron, vanadium,
cobalt, silicon and arsenic. In each case attention is given to the
metal’s chemistry and metabolic roles, including absorption,
transport, losses, status and essentiality, as well as the
consequences both of deficiency and excess.

The Nutritional Trace Metals is essential reading for
nutritionists, dietitians and other health professionals, including
physicians, who wish to know more about these vital components of
the diet. The book will also be of value to food scientists,
especially those involved in food fortification and pharmaceutical
product formulation. It will be an invaluable reference volume in
libraries of universities and research establishments involved in
nutrition teaching and research.

Conor Reilly is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and is
also Visiting Professor of Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University,
Oxford, U.K.

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Connor Reilly is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the Queenland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and is also Visiting Professor of Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.