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The Claim: Drinking Tea Can Lower Your Levels of Iron
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
Published: June 29, 2009
THE FACTS
With its bounty of antioxidants and relatively moderate levels of
caffeine, tea is one of the healthiest beverages around. But drinking
tea is said to block the body’s absorption of dietary iron,
potentially causing a deficiency.
Studies have shown that there is some truth to the idea. Compounds in
tea called tannins can act as chelators, binding to minerals and
inhibiting the body’s ability to absorb them. Although that can reduce
a person’s levels of iron, studies have also found that it is unlikely
to have much of an impact.
In one study, scientists examined the effect by having people eat a
typical meal — a hamburger, string beans and mashed potatoes — and
then measuring their iron levels after the meal was combined with
various drinks. When the subjects ate the meal with tea, there was a
62 percent reduction in iron absorption. Drinking coffee resulted in a
35 percent reduction. Orange juice increased iron absorption by about
85 percent.
But there was a twist. Coffee and tea affected only the levels of non-
heme iron, the kind found in grains and vegetables. Heme iron, found
in meat, fish and poultry, was unaffected.
Because most Americans generally get more iron from their diets than
needed, a daily cup or two of coffee or tea is unlikely to lead to low
levels of iron.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Compounds in coffee and tea can affect iron absorption.
ANAHAD O’CONNOR scit...@nytimes.com
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AND coffee at each meal, though in small amounts) will result in very
little iron from the diet (I don't eat any meat; no fish either). The
idea that I may be deficient in iron is laughable. That can occur if
there is too much dangerous biochemical activity going on, but my diet
prevents that possibility.
Happy Oyster
wrote:
>"Most Americans generally get more iron from their diets than needed"
Crap. They get more fluorides than they need!
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Ken
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India is a good experiment for many ideas.
India with high tea and low meat has highest metabolic related
nutritional disorder levels in the world.
What does that tell us?
Happy Oyster
Perhaps because it comes from the heavy metals in the soil?
India has the most poisonous soil and water in inhabited areas on earth.
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"Most Americans generally get more iron from their diets than needed"