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No
Health Without Zinc
Why all this interest in zinc and
health? The reason is that an immense amount of research has
been taking place over the last ten years or so, on the role
of zinc in the human body.
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Zinc
Lozenges As A Cold Remedy
Since there is no definitive cure
for the common cold, conventional treatments aim to alleviate
its symptoms. These treatments range from the use of decongestants
and antihistamines for a runny nose to expectorants and antitussives
for coughing. By contrast, zinc is thought to target the cold
viruses that cause the symptoms.
http://www.medicinenet.com/
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The
Role of Zinc in Child Health
… consistent, significant and clinically
important benefit of supplements containing 20 mg elemental
zinc in children aged under three years who present with acute
diarrhea.
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Nutritional
Status In Peru: Is Zinc A Common Nutritional Deficiency?
In the last years more information
has been collected to suggest that we do have a problem of
zinc deficiency in Peru.
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Zinc
Deficiency and Development
Research over the past 40 years has
shown the essentiality of zinc for development and that zinc
deficiency is relatively common, affecting all social groups.
The prevalence of zinc deficiency is greatest among the poor.
Primary deficiency from dietary inadequacy is the common form;
while conditioned deficiency can complicate many illnesses
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Intervention
to improve zinc status
Nutritional interventions designed
to improve zinc status in humans are similar to those considered
for nutrients that have public health relevance: iron, iodine
and vitamin A.
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Zinc
– An Essential Element for Health
Zinc is among the most important
of the trace elements in human nutrition. The remarkable ability
of this metal to participate in flexible and easily exchangeable
ligand binding with organic molecules underlies the extraordinary
extend to which zinc has been incorporated into an impressive
range of biological systems.
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Inadequate
Intakes Of Zinc In Developing Countries - Practical Household
Strategies To Reduce Risk Of Deficiency
The adequacy of dietary zinc depends
on its amount and bioavailability in the diet. Rural diets
in developing countries are predominately plant-based: consumption
of cellular animal protein foods such as meat, poultry and
fish, rich sources of readily available zinc, is often small
because of economic, cultural and religious constraints.
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Zinc
and Obstetrics
Maternal zinc deficiency may be relatively
common worldwide, but the public health importance of zinc
deficiency is not well defined. The purpose of this review
is to explain the potential public health importance of maternal
zinc deficiency as it relates to fetal growth and development,
complications of pregnancy, labor and delivery, and maternal
and infant health.
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Zinc
Supplementation and Children's Growth: A Meta-Analysis Of
Intervention Trials
Based on this extensive set of studies,
we believe that there is now sufficient information to indicate
that interventions to enhance zinc status should be considered
as a potential method to improve children's growth in those
settings with high rates of stunting and/or low plasma zinc
concentrations.
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The
Protective Role Of Zinc Oxide
Zinc containing compounds are well
known antimicrobials. Zinc oxide, too, has many benefits including
its use as a broad-spectrum sunblock.
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Zinc
Gluconate Lozenges Shorten the Duration and Severity of the
Common Cold
In 1984, Eby, Halcomb and Davis first
published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotheraphy
a paper that showed zinc gluconate tablets (with no soluble
excipients) used as throat lozenges shortened the duration
and reduced the severity of natural common colds by an average
of 7 days. In 1987 the British Medical Research Council Common
Cold Unit published a confirming report.
http://www.coldcure.com/html/executiv.html
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Duration
of Symptoms and Plasma Cytokine Levels in Patients with the
Common Cold Treated with Zinc Acetate
Participants took one lozenge containing
12.8 mgof zinc acetate or placebo every 2 to 3 hours while
awake as long as they had cold symptoms. Administration of
zinc lozenges was associated with reduced duration and severity
of cold symptoms, especially cough.
http://www.coldcure.com/html/prasad.pdf
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Antioxidant
Vitamins and Zinc Reduce Risk of Vision Loss
High levels of antioxidants and zinc
significantly reduce the risk of advanced age-related macular
degeneration (AMD) and its associated vision loss.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/amd.html
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Facts
About Dietary Supplements – Zinc
General description of zinc with
RDA suggested intake, deficiency signs, food sources, and
functions.
National Institutes of Health
http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/supplements/zinc.html
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Fact
Sheet - Human Nutrition - Zinc
This fact sheet is one in a series
containing information to help you select foods that provide
adequate daily amounts of vitamins, minerals, and dietary
fiber.
Ohio State University Extension
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5560.html
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Zinc
(Zn) is an essential trace mineral.
The human body has between 1.5-2.5
g Zn, making it nearly as abundant as iron. It is highly concentrated
in specialized areas of the brain, pancreas and adrenal gland,
but is present in all cells, particularly in the nucleus.
Zinc has structural, catalytic (enzymatic) and regulatory
roles. About 1% of the human genome codes for zinc finger
proteins, where zinc provides a structural role for regulatory
functions.
American Society for Nutritional Sciences
http://www.nutrition.org/nutinfo/
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Zinc
supplementation and respiratory health in underprivileged
children.
Zinc deficiency is common among children
in developing countries due to low food intake--particularly
from animal sources--limited zinc bioavailability from local
diets, and loss of zinc during illnesses that result in diarrhea.
Nutrition Research Newsletter, July, 2002.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/
m0887/7_21/90216458/p1/article.jhtml
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Zinc
in a Vegetarian Diet
Zinc is an essential element in any
healthy vegetarian diet plan. Zinc is important for skin and
a healthy immune system, as well as resistance to infection.
Studies show that vegetarian diets often contain less zinc
than meat-diets, so vegetarians need to eat plenty of foods
that are rich in zinc.
http://www.vegetarian-diet.info/zinc-vegetarian-diet.htm
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Here's
What You Need To Know About Zinc —
how much you need, what it does for
your body, good food sources, cautions and side effects.
Mayoclinic.com
http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?
objectid=59505AF4-7D45-4B89-8C6FEBCD6B6977CC
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Zinc
has been known for more than 50 years to be an essential mineral.
It is found in almost every cell in the body and is contained
within more than 200 enzymes, substances needed for
biochemical reactions. Zinc is important for a healthy immune
system , for healing cuts and wounds , and for maintaining
your sense of taste and smell. Zinc also supports normal growth
and development during pregnancy, childhood, and adolescence.
http://www.mednets.com/index.cfm/
fuseaction/articles_zinc_in_nutrition_zinc/
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Babies
with low birth weight are
likelier to survive the first nine months of life if they're
given zinc supplements, a new study says. The supplements,
given to undersized infants in India, were particularly helpful
in preventing deaths from diarrhea, according to the study,
which appears in the December 2001 issue of Pediatrics.
http://kprc-tvhealth.ip2m.com/index.cfm?
pt=itemDetail&Item_ID=15279&Site_Cat_ID=85
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Zinc
intake among the elderly in Europe is generally low -
but European researchers are currently
trying to discover the role of zinc in preventing the chronic
and degenerative diseases associated with ageing. In a recently
started EU-project, scientists will try to determine the variances
in zinc dietary intake among different European countries,
as well as the response to nutritional supplementation of
zinc in late middle-aged and elderly people from these countries.
http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/news-NG.asp?id=5134
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Effects
of iron-zinc supplementation on the iron, zinc,
and vitamin A status of anaemic pre-school children in Indonesia.
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/food/V184e/ch1.htm
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Zinc
deficiency in humans was clinically made evident in the 1960’s.
Zinc deficiency is most common in
malnourished populations of developing countries. However,
milder forms of zinc deficiency may be widespread in the U.S.
It has been suggested that zinc deficiency may be as common
as iron deficiency.
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/chdpasco/
DI_Web/2000abstracts%5Czincdeficiency.htm
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Effects
of zinc and micronutrient repletion on growth and neuropsychological
function of urban Chinese children.
J Amer Col Nutr 16:268-272, 1997.
The findings confirm the need for zinc for growth during early
development, and show, for the first time, the importance
of zinc for mental and motor function of children. The findings
therefore have important implication for the estimated 10-
30% of children worldwide suffering or at risk for zinc deficiency.
http://www.gfhnrc.ars.usda.gov/
pubs/1997/pub1123.html
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Zinc
absorption, mineral balance, and blood lipids in women consuming
controlled lactovegetarian and omnivorous diets.
While there is a greater risk of zinc deficiency in persons
consuming lacto-ovo-vegetarian, compared with omnivorous
diets, zinc requirements can be met on such a diet. The
results will help nutritionists advising persons on vegetarian
diets.
Am J Clin Nutr 67:421-30, 1998.
http://www.gfhnrc.ars.usda.gov/
pubs/1998/pub1117.html
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Zinc
can combat childhood killers
Zinc supplements can help prevent children in developing countries
from contracting two of the biggest killer diseases - pneumonia
and diarrhoea, say researchers.
BBC 7 December, 1999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/553977.stm
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Zinc
Deficiency - Is It Widespread but Under-Recognized? – SCN
News, Number 9
Zinc supplementation is beneficial
in many disease states. In malnourished children vitamin A
status has been improved and immune response corrected, and
even the duration of diarrhoeal disease seems to be reduced
by zinc supplements. Could it not be therefore that zinc deficiency
is associated with the aetiology of protein energy malnutrition?
http://www.unsystem.org/scn/
archives/scnnews09/index.htm
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Therapeutic
effects of oral zinc in acute and persistent diarrhea in children
in developing countries: pooled analysis of randomized controlled
trials
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,
Vol. 72, No. 6, 1516-1522, December 2000
Zinc deficiency is prevalent in children in developing
countries. Supplemental zinc provides therapeutic benefits
in diarrhea.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/
abstract/72/6/1516
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Zinc
is essential for survival and deficiency has serious consequences
for health. Randomized controlled
trials showed that zinc supplementation can reduce the severity
of morbidity from a number of common childhood infections,
including diarrhea, pneumonia, and possibly malaria, by one-third.
In addition, zinc deficiency causes stunting. Because of inadequate
intakes, billions of people are at risk for zinc deficiency,
but no estimates are available for the number of people who
are zinc deficient as a standard method for measuring zinc
deficiency is not yet available.
http://www.harvestplus.org/zinc.html
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One
in three men in Britain are not getting their Reference Nutrient
Intake (RNI) of zinc, which
is considered to play an important role in male fertility,
showed the survey.
http://www.nutraingredients.com/
news/news-NG.asp?id=8613
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Zinc
is Essential for Brain Function
Zinc is essential for brain development
and function. Severe zinc experimental deficiency caused dysgeusia,
dysosmia, ataxia, depression and abnormal mentation in humans.
Our research is focussed on less severe Zn deficiency...
http://www.trace-element.org/traces/en/
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Zinc
Deficiency, Metal Metabolism, And Behavior Disorders
Many of the patients of the Carl
Pfeiffer Treatment Center suffer from behavior disorders.
The most common ones are attention deficit hyperactive disorder
(ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), obsessive compulsive
disorder (OCD), and conduct disorder (CD). A high percentage
of behavior disordered persons exhibit abnormal levels of
copper, zinc, …
http://www.hriptc.org/zinc_deficiency.html
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Flour
Fortification Initiative
Deficiencies in iron, folic acid
and several other vitamins and minerals are widespread and
cause untold damage to the survival, health and well being
of billions of people around the world. These deficiencies
could be corrected through nutrient fortification of commonly
consumed foods like cereal flours and thus provide the nutrients
to people on a permanent and self-sustaining basis.
http://www.sph.emory.edu/wheatflour/
Test/Products/Papers/LearnMore.pdf
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Giving
Bangladeshi children zinc tablets when they have diarrhoea
signficantly cuts rates of illness and death.
Zinc cuts
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