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Originally Posted by sesheta
I told the doc that I feel worse WITH the iron supplement than without!!
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And for good reason! Here's a page that highlights the risks that accompany an over exposure to iron. It seems that there's a delicate balance at play... this drifting between too much iron and too little...
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http://www.healthy.net/scr/column.aspx?Id=68
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Originally Posted by sesheta
I've become such a HUGE label reader in the grocery store :) It amazes me to look at the label of something like juice, or a so-called "healthy" cereal....yet the nutrient label is almost all zeroes!!!
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Wonderful! We all need to be reading labels with an intense eye for both the listed ingredients... as well as what each ingredient implies... some ingredients seem innocuous enough until we realize that words like "yeast extract" actually mean "MSG", but by a different name!
There is also the hidden stuff that they don't have to list on the labels.. The
history of the raw ingredients, before combined with the others, doesn't have to be detailed... there's no telling what those were exposed to along the way...
This is largely why my wife and I have gravitated almost souly to single ingredient buying. And those being organic where possible... At least this way the "hidden" is better mitigated. There are so many chemicals and hormones that are being used on the stuff that are going into commercial products that a single-ingredient focus is about the only way of stepping around much of this..... Thusly, our processed foods are down to a very small portion of our kitchen, and those being as "clean" as we possibly can find.
In the beginning this focus felt a bit heavy-handed, but as we grew accustomed to the process it now feels quite normal and cozy. We now trust the foods we eat implicitly! Knowing that what little that makes its way past our radar will be easily handled by the integrity of a body well nourished. :^)