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Iron Deficiency

September 2nd, 2009 |

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Iron Deficiency

Iron is of great importance in human nutrition. The adult human body contains between 3-4 g of iron, of which 60-70 percent is present in the blood (Hb iron) as circulating iron, and the rest (1 to 1.5 g) as storage iron. Each gram of hemoglobin contains about 3.34 mg of iron.

There are two types of iron, haem-iron and non-haem iron. Haem iron is better absorbed than non-haem iron. Foods rich in haem-iron are liver, meat, poultry and fish. They are not only source of willingly obtainable iron but they also encourage the absorption of non-haem iron in plant foods eat at the same time.

Iron is more often than not absorbed from duodenum and upper small intestine in the ferrous state, according to body needs. Read the rest of this entry »