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Prevent Iron Deficiency with Healthy Eating

Melanie Thomassian Health Professional Dietitian My interest in health care began at a very young age, eventually... Send Message Subscribe: Melanie Thomassian

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The World Health Organization states that iron deficiency is the most common anemia (Centers for Disease Control, 2002), and it is estimated to affect approximately 2 billion people worldwide. This is a pretty shocking statistic! So, why is iron important to the body? Iron's most important role in ...

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Sue
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 01:53 PM

Thanks so much for this post Melanie. Glad to see there are many ways we can get iron through diet, not just supplents.

Readers may be interested in these posts/articles on iron and heart disease.

All the best, sue

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