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I had thought iron deficiency was an issue, despite noticing how often I see that things in the supermarket are fortified with it.
I had no idea though, about people having too much iron in their systems.

This sounds interesting to me and I wonder if it is a similar thing in Australia?


"In examining more than 1,000 white Americans ages 67 to 96 participating in the Framingham Heart Study, researchers found that only about 3 percent had deficient levels of iron in their blood or stored in their bodies, but 13 percent had levels considered too high.

The authors concluded that “the likely liability in iron nutriture in free-living, elderly white Americans eating a Western diet is high iron stores, not iron deficiency.”


The only supplement I take is calcium ... and now I wonder what happens to excess calcium, since I also eat lots of dairy etc.

*goes to duckduckgo*

Are these studies done because universitites spot a gap in the research or is there a kind of systematic working through such topics by some authority?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...er=rss&emc=rss

I hadn't thought of myself as a "free living elderly white" before .. but there you go!