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Best Sources Of Iron That You'll Actually Want To Eat
A Bonanza for Seafood Lovers
What it is: A raw-bar feast
How much iron you get: Per 3-ounce serving, oysters have 6.2 mg iron and clams have 23.8 mg iron (no, that is not a typo).
Why it's great: This is one area where shellfish have the advantage over land-dwellers. A 3-ounce serving of beef, which is usually considered a respectable source of iron, has 3 mg of iron-that's less than half the amount in oysters, and a teensy fraction of what you'll find in clams.
One more thing: Iron is a critical component of hemoglobin, a protein in our red blood cells that stores and transports oxygen through the body, explains Janis Jibrin, MS, RD, a registered dietician and the author of The Pescatarian Plan. When iron levels are low, we don't get enough oxygen, which can cause fatigue, foggy thinking and even heart failure. Women are more likely than men to be deficient in iron, partly because we lose it during menstruation. Aim for about 18 mg a day-but stay well under the way-upper limit of 45 mg, because an extreme excess of iron is linked to a higher risk of heart disease and cancer.
Source: OWN
MY take: I realized the IMPORTANCE!, of iron after going through the above 'causes of low iron levels', and it wasn't pretty!, I did a blood test and when my Dr.called to give results, I was in a shock because she was in a shock, she didn't understand how could I be as normal as I was with very low iron levels, because I was at end point!
Wakina dada tuzingatie sana kucheck iron levels zetu, na kama walivosema sizidi sana au kupungua sana. Halafu nimesikia (sijafaya research) kuwa w'wake wa Kiafrika tupo natural anaemic , tatizo nini haswa?
A Bonanza for Seafood Lovers
What it is: A raw-bar feast
How much iron you get: Per 3-ounce serving, oysters have 6.2 mg iron and clams have 23.8 mg iron (no, that is not a typo).
Why it's great: This is one area where shellfish have the advantage over land-dwellers. A 3-ounce serving of beef, which is usually considered a respectable source of iron, has 3 mg of iron-that's less than half the amount in oysters, and a teensy fraction of what you'll find in clams.
One more thing: Iron is a critical component of hemoglobin, a protein in our red blood cells that stores and transports oxygen through the body, explains Janis Jibrin, MS, RD, a registered dietician and the author of The Pescatarian Plan. When iron levels are low, we don't get enough oxygen, which can cause fatigue, foggy thinking and even heart failure. Women are more likely than men to be deficient in iron, partly because we lose it during menstruation. Aim for about 18 mg a day-but stay well under the way-upper limit of 45 mg, because an extreme excess of iron is linked to a higher risk of heart disease and cancer.
Source: OWN
MY take: I realized the IMPORTANCE!, of iron after going through the above 'causes of low iron levels', and it wasn't pretty!, I did a blood test and when my Dr.called to give results, I was in a shock because she was in a shock, she didn't understand how could I be as normal as I was with very low iron levels, because I was at end point!
Wakina dada tuzingatie sana kucheck iron levels zetu, na kama walivosema sizidi sana au kupungua sana. Halafu nimesikia (sijafaya research) kuwa w'wake wa Kiafrika tupo natural anaemic , tatizo nini haswa?