Zinc not only protects steel from rust, but it is a trace element essential to the human body.
It has long been known that zinc is essential for its immune function, healing of wounds, digestion, kidney function, breathing, reproductive system, control of diabetes, etc..
In the fight against diabetes, the University of Helsinki, Lund and Oxford have opened a new hope in the fight against diabetes type 2 that seems to be caused by a genetic DNA mutation in a gene (SLC 30A 8) which serves to produce a protein which transports the zinc in the pancreas.
Pending developments must be remembered that the daily diet, according to the World Health Organization should contain zinc in the following sizes:
12 mg / day for women
15 mg / day for men
7-11 mg / day for children
Zinc is present in nature, there is in the air, water and soil. It is continuously transported in the environment as a result of soil erosion processes, forest fires, aerosol formation from the sea, vulcanic eruption.
For workers who Galvanizers hot electric arc and Ottonieri an excess of zinc may cause a momentary fever (fever dell'ottoniere) that lasts a few hours and that immunizes the operator. Zinc unlike other metals does not accumulate in the body, because its excess is excreted from the body through perspiration.