According to Singh's study, which is published in December's issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, urban Indians may eat less zinc because they have replaced basic grains such as millet with refined cereals. D.C. The next step, he said, would be for the researchers to give subjects zinc supplements to find out whether zinc deficiencies contribute to their ailments. One primate study done at the University of California, published in 1996, suggested that a lack of zinc can retard bone growth in adolescents, possibly threatening girls with osteoporosis later in life. In 1995, a study at the University of Alabama showed that zinc supplements boosted birth weights of African-American babies whose mothers had low levels of zinc. In an editorial accompanying the articles, Dr. Ananda Prasad of the University Health Center in Detroit called for international health organizations to remedy zinc deficiencies around the world, both in developing and developed nations.
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