Zinc may help word recognition</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Zinc may help word recognition"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Zinc,may,help,word,recognition"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">07-04-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Zinc may help word recognition</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_pHBq0v93IusM4c2yiOpt_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New York, USA [Reuters Health (registration required)]: Dietary zinc supplementation (20 mg daily) may help seventh graders perform better in school, according to results of a study reported Monday during the American Society of Nutritional Sciences, part of Experimental Biology 2005 underway in San Diego. <br>The schoolchildren studied also had more correct answers on a word recognition test (9% vs 3%; p < 0.008) and had better scores on a task requiring sustained attention and vigilance (6% vs 1%; p < 0.03). <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/hnoz0KrDrK0F580GX7W0Ee " target="blank">mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/hnoz0KrDrK0F580GX7W0Ee </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show