From naturalhealth365.com
We’ve all heard about the importance of including iron in our diets. However, it can be hard to know how to up your iron intake without eating tons of meat.
Dialing back your meat intake, even if you don’t completely cut it out, has been shown to reduce your risk of cancer and other chronic diseases. But lowering your meat intake doesn’t mean sacrificing iron. Several powerful plant foods rich in iron can help ensure you’re giving your body what it needs.
Iron maintains optimum health in MULTIPLE ways
Iron is a vital mineral that plays a role in good health. One significant function of iron is that it helps your body make hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is pivotal for transporting oxygen throughout your bloodstream.
But that’s not all. Iron is vital for the immune system and cell function. Without iron, you could be at risk of anemia, a condition where you don’t have enough red blood cells or hemoglobin to transport oxygen to your cells very well.
Pregnant women are especially at risk for anemia. While the required iron intake varies from person to person, typically, men need about 8 milligrams a day, women 18 milligrams, and growing infants need 11 milligrams.
Eat these plant foods to boost your iron intake
So the question is, how can you maximize your dietary intake of iron? Several animal foods are rich in iron, such as meat, wild game, poultry, and seafood. There are two types of iron – heme and non-heme. The difference between them is that it’s easier for your body to absorb heme iron. So if you’re not getting dietary iron from meat, it’s a good idea to get plenty of vitamin C, which helps you absorb non-heme iron.
Minimizing your toxic (factory produced) meat intake can benefit your overall health and lower your risk of certain chronic diseases. Luckily, several tasty plant-based foods provide essential iron.
Nuts and legumes are good sources of iron for plant-eaters.
Green leafy vegetables are also ideal sources of the mineral. For example, spinach contains 4 milligrams of iron in just one cup. It can be used in soups, salads, and more. You might even make it in a smoothie or use it as a pizza topping. What’s even better is that it also contains many other beneficial nutrients.
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Hi Pam I clicked on the link because I like to know and understand where people are coming from. If you are going to post information I may have to respond. Meat is not only an extremely ancient and completely safe and legitimate source of protein and other vastly under-rated nutrients. It is also an under-rated part of by far the biggest or most liked dietary habits in human existence up until today. Do Argentinians, for example, suffer from cancer because they eat too much meat? Finally, do you know that farming meat in NZ actually pays your bills? Farming meat produces the sales to the markets we need to keep our country afloat. If the economy needs help it needs to sell and eat more meat, not less!
Sorry, but if you are going to post posts I may respond to the content. In concern for our welfare as a nation. Ray
Soli Deo gloria!
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I’m personally not anti-meat Ray. I eat it myself. Was raised on it. NZ rural. I think like a lot of things affecting health these days it’s simply balance. Too much of one and not enough of another etc. You will have noted I guess that the globalists want us eating insects … no thanks. It is they who are shutting down the meat industry, farming etc. That’s a whole other story and not sure of your stance on that one … it’s the same with the dairy industry … I’m a fan of farm gate organic raw milk rather than the highly processed industrial scale dairy … but they’re trying to shut that down as well … thanks for your comments anyway Ray, Cheers 🙂
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