You and your child need Iron

You and your child need Iron




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You and your child need Iron
Posted in 2011

How Your Body Uses Iron in Food

When you eat food with iron, iron is absorbed into your body mainly through the upper part of your small intestine.
There are two forms of dietary iron: heme and nonheme. Heme iron is derived from hemoglobin. It is found in animal foods that originally contained hemoglobin, such as red meats, fish, and poultry (meat, poultry, and seafood contain both heme and non-heme iron). Your body absorbs the most iron from heme sources. Most nonheme iron is from plant sources.

Spinach may not give you superhuman strength to fight off villains like Popeye's nemesis Bluto, but this leafy green and other foods containing iron can help you fight a different type of enemy -- iron-deficiency anemia.
Iron-deficiency anemia, the most common form of anemia, is a decrease in the number of red blood cells caused by too little iron. Without sufficient iron, your body can't produce enough hemoglobin, a substance in red blood cells that makes it possible for them to carry oxygen to the body's tissues. As a result, you may feel weak, tired, and irritable.
About 20% of women, 50% of pregnant women, and 3% of men do not have enough iron in their body. The solution, in many cases, is to consume more foods high in iron
Soluble and Ionizable Iron Content of Some Unmilled and Milled Cereals and Pulses
Fe at pH 7.5
Foodstuff
Fe in grain
Soluble
Ionizable
(mg/100g)
(%)
(%)
Wheat flour
Whole 6.1 5.9 4.3
Refined 1.8 13.2 8.2
Sorghum
Whole 4.2 - 19.6
Pearled 3.7 - 28.7
Chick-pea
Whole 6.0 12.6 2.7
Dhal 4.9 22.6 14.0

My advise
1..  Iron is important to improve blood levels in your body and your child's body
2... When you're pregnant, you need about twice the amount of iron as you did before you were expecting because your body uses iron to make extra blood for your baby. And yet, about 50% of pregnant women don't get enough of this important mineral. Eating iron-rich foods and taking extra iron as your doctor recommends can help keep your iron level in check.
3.. Your body uses iron to make extra blood (hemoglobin) for you and your baby during  pregnancy. Iron also helps move oxygen from your lungs to the rest of your body -- and to your baby's.
4... Getting enough iron can prevent a condition of too few red blood cells that can make you feel tired, called Iron deficiency anema. Having anemaia can cause your baby to be born too small or too early.
5..  Your food contain Iron..  Eat well to protect your self and your child's health

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