Sentences with phrase «zinc intakes impair»

In particular, high zinc intakes impair absorption of copper, a nutrient we already struggle to obtain from our diets.

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Clinicians consider risk factors (such as inadequate caloric intake, alcoholism, and digestive diseases) and symptoms of zinc deficiency (such as impaired growth in infants and children) when determining the need for zinc supplementation [2].

A number of other dietary factors can impair the production of anti-inflammatory hormones, thereby increasing the inflammatory ones: low levels of vitamins B6, C, E, niacin, and the minerals magnesium, calcium, and zinc (these should come from a healthy diet); trans fat; low protein intake; excess stress; and aging, which increases the risk of more inflammatory chemicals.

Inadequate zinc intake causes immune dysfunction impairing its abilities to respond and prevent viral replication and inhibit infection.

Patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) exhibit clinical symptoms similar to those associated with zinc deficiency, including immune deficiencies, impaired taste and appetite, decreased food intake, gastrointestinal malfunction with diarrhea, alopecia, epithelial lesions and hypogonadism and hypospermia (King and Keen 1994, Odeh 1992).