Antioxidant micronutrients as intersectoral link between health and agriculture

Anetor, JI; Babalola, OO; Anetor, GO

doi:10.4314/ajbr.v9i1.48766

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“…A growing concept of health considers health as an essential component of sustainable development, which can only be achieved through joint efforts by several sectors (World Health Organization, 1997;Anetor et al, 2006). A closer partnership between the health, environmental agencies and the agricultural sector is required to reduce the threat resulting from environmental and ecological derangements from aquatic and terrestrial environmental pollution.…”

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“…The health sector has a responsibility to facilitate the understanding of the effect of pollution on aquatic and terrestrial components of the environment as well as the consequences on human health and advise the agricultural and environmental policy makers on strategies to ameliorate these attendant disorders. The progressively stronger scientific and clinical recognition of nutrition and diet to health implies the need for education in different aspects of nutrient (Anetor et al, 2006). In the United States, the collaboration between the Agriculture and Health sectors in this regard is worthy of emulation and extrapolation particularly in the developing World.…”

Section: Suggested Roles Of the Agricultural Health And Other Sectors...mentioning

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“…Environmental pollution, which has continued to be on constant rise, is one of the most serious global problems of the 21st century (Anetor et al, 2006;Anetor et al, 2008;Das and Sethi, 2022). This is of uttermost concern particularly in developing or fast industrializing countries with large chemical burden emanating from numerous increased and uncontrolled anthropogenic activities as well as intentional or unintentional release of hazardous pollutants into the environment (Liang and Yang, 2019;Gong and Kong, 2022).…”

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Environmental Pollutants and Oxidative Stress in Terrestrial and Aquatic Organisms: Examination of the Total Picture and Implications for Human Health

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There is current great international concern about the contribution of environmental pollution to the global burden of disease particularly in the developing, low- and medium-income countries. Industrial activities, urbanization, developmental projects as well as various increased anthropogenic activities involving the improper generation, management and disposal of pollutants have rendered today’s environment highly polluted with various pollutants. These pollutants include toxic metals (lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, pesticides and diesel exhaust particles most of which appear to be ubiquitous as well as have long-term environmental persistence with a wide range of toxicities such as oxidative stress among others. Oxidative stress, which may arise from increased production of damaging free radicals emanating from increased pollutant burden and depressed bioavailability of antioxidant defenses causes altered biochemical and physiological mechanisms and has been implicated in all known human pathologies most of which are chronic. Oxidative stress also affects both flora and fauna and plants are very important components of the terrestrial environment and significant contributors of nutrients for both man and animals. It is also remarkable that the aquatic environment in which sea animals and creatures are resident is also highly polluted, leading to aquatic stress that may affect the survival of the aquatic animals, sharing in the oxidative stress. These altered terrestrial and aquatic environments have an overarching effect on human health. Antioxidants neutralize the damaging free radicals thus, they play important protective roles in the onset, progression and severity of the unmitigated generation of pollutants that ultimately manifest as oxidative stress. Consequently, human health as well as that of aquatic and terrestrial organisms may be protected from environmental pollution by mitigating oxidative stress and employing the principles of nutritional medicine, essentially based on antioxidants derived mainly from plants, which serve as the panacea of the vicious state of environmental pollutants consequently, the health of the population. Understanding the total picture of oxidative stress and integrating the terrestrial and aquatic effects of environmental pollutants are central to sustainable health of the population and appear to require multi-sectoral collaborations from diverse disciplinary perspectives; basically the environmental, agricultural and health sectors.

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“…Human milk, which is usually the only source of food for infants during the first 6 months of their lives (WHO, 2001), has been reported as a route of transfer of Pb and Cd from maternal circulation to an exclusively breastfed infant (Goudarzi et al, 2013; Li et al, 2000). However, there is growing evidence that micronutrient intake has a significant ameliorative effect on the toxicity of heavy metals (Anetor et al, 2006). Zn as a micronutrient is known to interact with Cd and Pb and has been shown to reduce their levels and toxicity (Zhai et al, 2015).…”

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Zinc, lead, and cadmium levels in serum and milk of lactating women in Ibadan, Nigeria

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Zinc (Zn) is known to interact with lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) reversing their toxicity and reducing their concentrations. However, lactating women are at high risk of developing Zn deficiency, which may result in Pb and Cd intoxication or increased exposure of breast-fed infants to Pb and Cd from breast milk. The aim of this study was to determine Zn, Pb, and Cd concentrations and examine their relationship in serum and breast milk of lactating women in Ibadan, Nigeria. Ninety-two lactating women were recruited into this study. Anthropometric measurements were assessed by standard methods while serum and breast milk concentrations of Zn, Pb, and Cd were assessed by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Data analyzed statistically by Student's t test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and a multiple regression model were significant at p < 0.05. Zn deficiency was observed in 12 (17.1%) of lactating women. Breast milk levels of Zn, Pb, and Cd were significantly higher than their levels in serum, whereas the ratios Zn:Pb and Zn:Cd in milk were significantly less than serum ratios. Significant negative correlation was observed between milk Pb and serum Zn:Pb while milk Cd correlated positively with milk Zn. Significant positive correlations were observed between serum Zn and serum Zn:Pb, serum Zn and serum Zn:Cd, as well as serum Zn:Cd and serum Zn:Pb. Serum Cd and serum Zn were significantly negatively related. Significant negative correlations between serum Pb and serum Zn:Pb as well as milk Zn:Pb. Serum Cd and serum Zn:Pb as well as serum Zn:Cd correlated negatively. Milk Cd and Zn/Cd positively related with milk Pb while milk Zn was a negatively related with milk Pb in a multiple regression model ( R = 0.333; p = 0.023). Breast milk may be contaminated by toxic metals. However, Zn supplementation in deficient mothers may protect maternal and infant health.

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“…This further exacerbates the prognosis of neurotoxicity in our sub region as these neuroprotective micronutrients are unfortunately on the decline as environmental chemicals are on the increase. (Anetor, Adeniyi and Taylor, 2002;Anetor et al, 2006). Developing countries suffer from Micronutrient deficiency diseases (MDDs) .…”

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Environmental chemicals and human neurotoxicity: magnitude, prognosis and markers

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Antioxidant micronutrients as intersectoral link between health and agriculture

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Environmental Pollutants and Oxidative Stress in Terrestrial and Aquatic Organisms: Examination of the Total Picture and Implications for Human Health

Environmental Pollutants and Oxidative Stress in Terrestrial and Aquatic Organisms: Examination of the Total Picture and Implications for Human Health

Zinc, lead, and cadmium levels in serum and milk of lactating women in Ibadan, Nigeria

Environmental chemicals and human neurotoxicity: magnitude, prognosis and markers

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