PPT Slide
- Studying of all aspects of nutritional status of adolescents is needed, with special emphasis of impact of zinc on growth.
- A special care should be given to evaluate the effect of zinc status on sexual maturation for both sexes with special emphasis in boys.
- Nutritional health education should be used as preventive approach, to allow the large sector of the low income in our society to maximize the use of their limited resources in the best means to minimize the effect of poverty on growth development and health of children and adolescents.
- Development of intervention plans to increase dietary zinc and its bioavailability in food specialty for growing children
- Development of parameters for evaluation of marginal states of zinc deficiency and assessment of its public health importance on the national level.
- The period of adolescence deserves more attention from investigators, as it is of crucial importance in stages of growth, yet adolescence did not receive the attention given to other stages of childhood by researchers.