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BEAT THE
IRON CRISIS
* '26% of a selected population of children
aged 17-19 months were anaemic' according to
the findings of Aukett and colleagues from
Birmingham, reported in The Lancet.
Iron is the earth's second most abundant mineral,
but even in the western world iron deficiency
symptoms are almost of epidemic proportions in
some young children — to the extent that there
have been calls from hospital doctors for a
community campaign to combat it.
It is not just anaemia that is the consequence: brain
function, mental and physical development and
resistance to infection are also at stake.
There is no nutritional reason why anyone should be
deficient in iron, and Leonard Mervyn shows how
you can be sure that you and your family don't miss
out.
Leonard Mervyn is an experienced clinical biochemist and
author of many popular books on nutrition. He is
Technical Director of Booker Health Foods, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the New...
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Fülszöveg
BEAT THE
IRON CRISIS
* '26% of a selected population of children
aged 17-19 months were anaemic' according to
the findings of Aukett and colleagues from
Birmingham, reported in The Lancet.
Iron is the earth's second most abundant mineral,
but even in the western world iron deficiency
symptoms are almost of epidemic proportions in
some young children — to the extent that there
have been calls from hospital doctors for a
community campaign to combat it.
It is not just anaemia that is the consequence: brain
function, mental and physical development and
resistance to infection are also at stake.
There is no nutritional reason why anyone should be
deficient in iron, and Leonard Mervyn shows how
you can be sure that you and your family don't miss
out.
Leonard Mervyn is an experienced clinical biochemist and
author of many popular books on nutrition. He is
Technical Director of Booker Health Foods, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the New
York Academy of Sciences.
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