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The Country, known as the "Giant Country" of Europe, the Netherlands, has the highest average height in the world.
The man is tall and handsome, and the woman is very eye-catching
According to statistics, in the modern world, the top 10 countries are in Europe.
Other countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, are a bit shorter in comparison.
For example, in some areas of Iran and Iraq, there are adolescents and children with poor appetite, slow growth, and stunted secondary sexual characteristics.
The child below (first from the left) is 17 years old, but only 1.22 meters.
Because they mainly eat grains and legumes, animal protein is very small, dietary fiber and phytic acid, will be combined with iron, zinc, so that you can not absorb zinc, and their bread is not fermented (greatly reducing phytic acid).
Many people, after researchers gave patients zinc supplements, found that their symptoms improved and they even grew taller.
There are many factors that affect height, genes, nutrition, exercise, environment and so on.
Zinc has a very important impact on children's growth and development, and once severely deficient, it can also affect the child's height, as well as other aspects of growth and development.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="37" > Review: The benefits of zinc for the human body</h1>
Let's start with a brief review of the benefits of trace element zinc.
The trace element zinc is one of the trace elements necessary for the human body.
It is important for the body's immune system, affects cell-mediated immunity, and can help fight off invading bacteria and viruses.
It can also help maintain the integrity of the skin, reduce oxidative stress, reduce chronic inflammatory responses, improve heart health, improve vision, help fight acne, and more.
Zinc is indispensable for the growth and development of adolescents and children.
Zinc deficiency can cause many problems, such as growth retardation, nail malnutrition, Wilson's disease, sickle cell anemia, hair loss, diarrhea, hypogonadism in men, and eye and skin damage.
Also, it is very important that in the growth and development of adolescents and children, if there is a serious lack of zinc, it will affect the height growth.
→ the story of an Indian doctor, a [zinc] expert
Dr. Ananda Prasad, an Indian, specializes in the role of zinc in human metabolism.
Ananda Prasad, Dr. Ananda Prasad
In 1957, Dr. Ananda Prasad traveled to Iran and found the "Iranian Dwarfs".
Doctors diagnose them with hypopituitarism (referring to a partial or complete deficiency of one or more pituitary hormones. Prasad decided to conduct further research, which turned out to be severely deficient in zinc, and after discovering this, Prasad saved many lives.
Dr. Prasad found that zinc deficiency in the Middle East is very common, they mainly eat some grains, bread made of unleavened flour, and do not consume animal protein; some vegetables are eaten, but there are almost no dairy products, animal protein.
Non-fermented grains with high phytate content.
The main factor causing zinc deficiency is the intake of a large amount of phytate-containing grain protein, the phosphate in the grain protein, will chelate iron, zinc, resulting in normal absorption and utilization by the human body.
In addition, zinc is closely related to the action of hormones.
The physiological and biochemical levels of many hormones are affected by zinc metabolism, which can increase the synthesis of growth hormone and the number of receptors, and participate in more thyroid hormone and protein metabolism processes, such as hormone synthesis and receptor activity.
Zinc deficiency will lead to a decrease in protein synthesis, and protein is an indispensable substance in the body's growth and development process, once seriously deficient, it will definitely affect the child's height development.
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In June 2013, a study found that zinc supplementation can promote height growth in school-age children.
The new study in Thailand found that zinc and multivitamin supplementation for school-age children significantly increased height compared to placebo controls.
The researchers recruited 140 healthy school-age children with age distributions between 4 and 13 years in a randomized, double-blind controlled trial.
The researchers randomly assigned them to a placebo or zinc bisglycinate (which provides 20 mg of elemental zinc) plus a multivitamin (vitamin A, B1, B2, B6, B12, niacinamide, vitamin D supplementation) 5 days a week for 6 months.
Anthropometric parameters before and after treatment were recorded, with changes in height relative to baseline as the primary result and changes in other human measurement parameters as secondary results.
The children tested, with an average age of 8.9 years;
Baseline anthropometric data did not differ significantly between groups.
At the end of the trial, the researchers found that children receiving zinc supplementation had significantly higher height gains (5.6±2.4 vs 4.7 ±1.4 cm; P=0.009) and Z-scores (0.45±0.37 vs 0.37±0.27; P=0.048, respectively).
The researchers did not observe significant differences in other human measurement parameters.
Finally, they concluded that zinc supplementation increased the height gain of School-Age children in Thailand over a 6-month period.
In conclusion, zinc supplementation increased linear growth in Thai schoolaged children over a 6-month period.
In addition, in 2016, researchers in China assessed the relationship between height in children (6-36 months) and blood concentrations of zinc, copper, iron, calcium and magnesium.
It was found that in children aged 6-12 months, height was positively correlated with zinc levels (p<0.05). In children aged 6 to 36 months, zinc levels were positively correlated with concentrations of calcium, magnesium, and iron (p<0.05).
This shows that to ensure the healthy development of children, the blood levels of these five elements should be balanced, in addition to zinc has other important roles.
→ treatment of acute diarrhea
Infants and children are susceptible to acute diarrhea and respiratory infections.
In 2001, Dr. Prasad was invited to Bangladesh to see a ward for 1,000 babies with acute diarrhoea.
Doctors told him that 90 percent of babies here would die within three weeks.
And doctors gave the babies an oral rehydration solution to treat diarrhea, which was developed about 30 years ago, but it didn't save the babies' lives.
However, doctors later discovered that if zinc was added to the oral rehydration solution, the baby could survive and the mortality rate dropped dramatically.
WHO now has a programme in 70 countries showing that zinc is essential for the treatment of acute diarrhoea.
→ help treat Wilson's disease
Wilson's disease is a rare genetic disorder that can cause copper poisoning in the body.
It usually manifests itself in the twenties, thirties, and forties, and copper accumulates in the liver, brain, and kidneys, and dies by the age of forty or fifty.
But the researchers found that if they were given zinc supplementation, they could reduce symptoms.
The researchers followed about three hundred patients across the country and found that zinc supplementation was a very effective way to treat Wilson's disease.
The FDA has approved zinc as a treatment for Wilson's disease.
→ relieves the common cold
In 1984, George Eby of Texas first reported that taking zinc acetate or zinc gluconate lozenges could reduce the severity and duration of the common cold.
Dr. Prasad's team recruited 50 volunteers within 24 hours of the appearance of common cold symptoms and tested the efficacy of zinc acetate lozenges on the common cold.
The researchers gave participants a lozenge containing 8-12 mg of zinc or a placebo every 2-3 hours while awake after developing symptoms of the common cold.
Subjective symptom scores of sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, sneezing, cough, throat hoarseness, hoarseness, muscle soreness, fever, and headache were recorded daily for 12 days.
The results found that the overall duration of cold symptoms was shorter (4.5 d vs 8.1 d, p< 0.01), runny nose (4.1 d vs 5.8 d, p = 0.02), and the overall severity score for all symptoms was reduced (p = 0.02) compared with the placebo group.
→ treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning
In Russia, a histidine zinc compound called Acyizol is used very effectively to treat carbon monoxide poisoning.
In mining and related industries, zinc histidine has been used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning.
In addition, older adults are susceptible to pneumonia and upper respiratory tract infections; zinc supplementation has been found to reduce incidence by 66%.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="195" > key skinny dragon said</h1>
Zinc is an essential micronutrient needed for many biological processes.
It plays an important role in growth and development, immune function, and nerve function.
Meat and shellfish (such as oysters) have a high content of zinc, and you can usually eat more of these foods, and if your children eat less seafood, they can also consume oral liquid rich in zinc.
If you feel that your immunity is low and you are usually deficient in zinc, try to supplement zinc.
However, be careful not to overdoses Oh, the Food Commission and the Nutrition Committee recommend that adults should not supplement zinc up to 40 mg per day.
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