here are some facts about Zinc deficiency consequencies, signs, causes and prevention. Also, which foods are high in zinc

1. Zinc Deficiency
Zinc deficiency annually causes 450,000 deaths in children under the age
of 5.
Causes of Zinc Deficiency:
●Lack of nutrition
●excessive alcohol intake
●long term exposure to environmental toxins
●mal absorption syndrome
●chronic diseases e.g. sickle cell anemia, Wilson's disease, renal and liver
diseases

2. How serious is a zinc deficiency
● weakened immune system
● inability to protect cell membranes from viruses, toxins complement,
and venomes
● poor appetite (particularly I nthe young and elderly)
● mental lethargy
● chronic diarrhea
● growth failure (dwarfism)
● vision problems

3. ● fertility problems (failure of sexual
maturity, benign prostatitis in men, and
menstrual cramping and bloating in
women)
● essential hypertension
● angina pectoris
● delayes wound healing
● free radical damage
● loss of hair color
● anemia
● stretch marks
● frequent infecitons
● scleroderma
● loss of taste
● asthma
● premature aging
● joint pain

4. How To Reverse Deficiency
therapeutic daily dose of 100 to 150mgs of zinc for
only a few months
copper and vitamin B6

5. Plant sources naturally highin Zinc
● cereal
● grasses like wheat, oats, barley, rye and wild grasses
● organic locally grown greens like dandelion, romain, broccoli,
cilantro, basil and cabbage,
● organic seeds and nuts, especially pumpkin seeds, sunflower
seeds, brazil nuts, pecans, and walnuts
● fermented cabbages

6. Zinc supplements
Gluconate
Opti-zinc (if you have eye problems)
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7. Zinc supplements
Gluconate
Opti-zinc (if you have eye problems)
See more at Spiqy, LifeToLiveIt and YourLifeTube