Selenized garlic: a future prospect or already a current functional food?

In the last years, functional foods have awakened consumer, scientific and business interest. A commonly found vegetable in such kind of foods includes garlic (Allium sativum). By its ability for selenium (Se) bio-accumulation, garlic can turn into an attractive option of selenized food. Selenium is an essential micronutrient for many organisms including plants, animals, and humans. It is an important trace element due to its antioxidant properties and plays a main role in prevention of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Nowadays, there is an increasing interest in the study of Se speciation due to the different roles that each species manifests in toxicological and nutrition fields. However, Se exhibits a narrow interval between toxicity and essentiality, which is puzzling toxicologists and alarming nutritionists and legislators. In the present review, an overview on the development of selenized garlic studies and its potential implementation in Argentine production is exposed. The development of novel foods with added value such us selenized garlic could be an attractive alternative for local market. Moreover, it becomes a good offering for factory owners, considering that Mendoza represents about 85% of total garlic production in the country.

Aproximación al monacato occidental en la Edad Media

Monasticism was not born nor grew up in contraposition to scholasticism. Both of them express the truth and unity of religious life. In this paper, the Author analyses the cases of a monk and a scholar, Bernardus of Claraval and Petrus Abelardus, respectively, by means of two of their major works: Commentary on The Song of Songs and Preface to the Commentary on the Letters of Saint Paul. Finally, a brief summary concerning longing for heaven in texts of Medium Ages is included.

Vestigios de latinidad clásica en reglas monásticas visigodas

Las reglas monásticas visigodas constituyen un corpus documental de importancia fundamental para el estudio del monacato primitivo en Hispania. Ellas reflejan, entre otros aspectos, la preocupación por los ideales de vida de su época, heredados en parte de diversos tratados clásicos, que expresaban, desde aspectos más profundos vinculados a la moral, hasta reglas más precisas relacionadas con el modo de comportamiento en sociedad. En la temprana Edad Media, esta preocupación fue retomada por las comunidades monásticas, rescatando elementos propios de las costumbres latinas tradicionales. En dicho contexto, este estudio se propone analizar la presencia de vestigios de latinidad clásica en las reglas monacales visigodas, las cuales sirvieron como receptáculo de aquellas tradiciones destinadas a regular los distintos aspectos de la vida del monje.