Iron Minerals Information - Facts, benefits, deficiency disease of Iron

Iron is essential and required for life, necessary for the production of hemoglobin ( red blood corpuscles), myoglobin ( red pigment in muscles), and certain enzymes. Iron is necessary for proper metabolization of B vitamins.

Iron and calcium are the two major dietary drdiciencies of ameraican women. Only about 8% of your total iron intake is absorbed and actually enters your blood stream.

An average of 150-pound adult has about 4 g. of iron in his or her body. Hemoglobin, which acccounts for most of the iron, is recycled and reutilized as blood cells are replaced every 120 days. Iron bound to protien is stored in the body, as is tissue iron in very small amounts.

The RDA is 10 to 18 mg. of iron for adults and 18 mg. for pregnant women. In a month, women lose almost twice as iron as men.

Iron Benefits and Uses

• Iron aid growth
• Promote resistance to disease
• prevent fatique
• Iron cure and prevent iron-deficiency disease anemia
• bring back good skin tone

Iron food Sources

Pork liver, beef kidney, heart and liver, raw clams, dried peaches, red meat, egg yolks, oysters, nuts, beans, asparagus, molasses, oatmeal.

Iron Deficiency Disease

iron-deficiency disease anemia.