Mother-and-child zinc
Mothers-to-be should be encouraged to eat zinc-enriched rice according to a report published in June 2001 after a workshop of the University in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Including zinc in pregnant women s diets improves the resistance of the babies against infection after birth, and using enhanced rice, known as one of the new wave of functional foods (see Publications), is a simple method. The meeting emphasised that this is preferable to zinc supplements in the diets of new-born babies they do not make the necessary enzymes to make zinc work.
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| Language: | English |
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
2001
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46289 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99598 |
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