Monday, November 2, 2009

Low-Level Mercury Exposure, Zinc Deficiency and Learning Disabilities

Low-Level Mercury Exposure, Zinc Deficiency and Learning Disabilities

Child learning and behavioral disorders are on the rise. Increasingly, diet-related factors like synthetic food dyes, mercury contamination and mineral deficiencies are being linked to these problems.

A new study in this month's issue of the peer-reviewed Behavioral and Brain Functions Journal suggests an important new model for how these disparate factors in the food system may be interacting to create a much bigger overall problem than typically is appreciated by looking at these diet factors individually.

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