(11-28-2011, 03:35 PM)Duchess Wrote:

How do you know if you're not getting enough iron?

Are you tired? No energy? Feel run down? Then you are probably low on iron.

Do you ever give blood? They do an iron test before they let you donate. If your iron is too low, you can't donate.

(11-28-2011, 03:35 PM)Duchess Wrote:

How do you know if you're not getting enough iron?

It's called Iron deficiency anemia
Get a blood test...see here: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/iron-de...ia/DS00323

(11-28-2011, 03:47 PM)SIXFOOTERsez Wrote: Bananas are some miraculous food!

Yes they are. If you can't get them down by eating them, try pureeing with some vanilla yogurt, milk and strawberries or strawberry preserves in a blender or with a hand blender.

Bananas are dying from some degenerative disease and they are having a hard time keeping up. I bet they start to cost a bit more soon.

anyone else shake banana bunches at the market?

*gasp* I do NOW!

Oysters are really high in iron and it is a heme iron which the body absorbs more efficiently than iron from plant sources. Just eat a dozen raw oysters if you feel drained and it will perk you right up.

(11-27-2011, 03:54 PM)Cracker Wrote: Except bacon. Love the hell out of some bacon.

I think it was Homer Simpson who first said that if God didn't want people to eat pigs they wouldn't taste so good.

I eat less meat every year and more poultry. Ya' gotta eat something and a carrot has almost as much right to live as a fish.

(11-27-2011, 05:30 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: supposedly fresh veggies and of course seafood have plenty of iodine.

I could be wrong but most fresh veggies don't contain much iodine. I believe it's spinach that is the exception but even it isn't high enough to make up for salt or fish unless you eat it at every meal.

It's a wonder I didn't get a goiter. My idiot doctor at the time told me to cut the salt out of my diet and I was too dumb to ask for clarification. I eliminated almost all salt and the little I got was all uniodized. My salt levels dipped into dangerously low levels. Soon after I started using salt again I discovered my supply was uniodized.

It doesn't make sense to turn normal kids into blithering idiots. I suspect that at least 10's of thousands are being made each year.

(11-28-2011, 04:07 PM)ramseycat Wrote: Are you tired? No energy? Feel run down? Then you are probably low on iron.

Do you ever give blood? They do an iron test before they let you donate. If your iron is too low, you can't donate.

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They won't even draw my blood. Well... ...they won't keep it.

i looked up foods rich in iodine and got 9743 different answers. so i'm going to eat seaweed.




Dairy foods tend to be rich in iodine because iodine is commonly added to feed in the U.S., according to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. Cow's milk is high in iodine, with 56 mcg in a single cup. Low-fat yogurt is also a good source of iodine, with 87 mcg per cup. Cheese also contains iodine, with 10 mcg in an ounce of mozzarella.


Vegetables and fruits take up iodine from the soil, making them potentially good sources of iodine. For example, a cup of strawberries contain about 13 mcg of iodine. Vegetables such as potatoes and beans also are good iodine sources. One medium potato supplies about 60 mcg of iodine, and one-half cup of navy beans contains about 30 mcg.

(11-28-2011, 05:47 PM)Harvest Moon Wrote:

(11-28-2011, 03:47 PM)SIXFOOTERsez Wrote: Bananas are some miraculous food!

Yes they are. If you can't get them down by eating them, try pureeing with some vanilla yogurt, milk and strawberries or strawberry preserves in a blender or with a hand blender.

I eat banana every day ... I put frozen chunks of it along with some other fruits/berries in my thick superfood smoothie practically every morning.

(11-28-2011, 10:19 PM)Middle Finger Wrote: I eat banana every day

Yes, Gorilla Man, you probably scratch your balls every day, too.

nutrition tip for today...always use iodized salt for your margaritas.

don't read this Duchess. it disturbed the hell out of me. :(

Technorati

Horse slaughter plants are legal again in the United States. Restrictions on horse meat processing for human consumption have been lifted. courtesy of Google Images

In a bipartisan effort, the House of Representatives and the United States Senate approved the Conference Committee report on spending bill H2112, which among other things, funds the United States Department of Agriculture. On November 18^th, as the country was celebrating Thanksgiving, President Obama signed a law, allowing Americans to kill and eat horses. Essentially, one turkey was pardoned in the presence of worldwide media while in the shadows, buried under pages of fiscal regulation, millions of horses were sentenced to death.

Horse slaughter has been prohibited in the United States as funding for inspections of horses in transit and at slaughter houses was non-existent. This worked because the horse meat cannot be sold for human consumption without such inspections. The House version of the bill retained the de-funding language and the Senate version did not. The conference committee charged with reconciling the two opted to not include it. The result is that it is now legal to slaughter horses for humans to eat.

Notwithstanding that 70% of Americans oppose horse slaughter, that President Obama made a campaign promise to permanently ban horse slaughter and exports of horses for human consumption (horses can be sent to Mexico and Canada), that documentation of animal cruelty, slaughterhouse stench, fluid runoff and negative community impact exists, it is taxpayers that will bear the costs!

Wyoming state representative Sue Wallis and her pro-slaughter group estimate that between 120,000 and 200,000 horses will be killed for human consumption per year and that Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Georgia and Missouri, are considering opening slaughter plants.

Read more: http://technorati.com/lifestyle/article/...z1f8aH8eFP

Thats amazing..........they eat horses in Kenya also.

(11-28-2011, 11:17 PM)Cracker Wrote:

(11-28-2011, 10:19 PM)Middle Finger Wrote: I eat banana every day

Yes, Gorilla Man, you probably scratch your balls every day, too.

My wife keeps long nails for a reason, you big mouth bowl-shaped bitch.

There seems very little doubt that horse meat will very soon show up in McDounells hambugers right along with worms, pink slime, and kangaroo meat.

(11-29-2011, 11:59 PM)cladking Wrote: kangaroo meat.

(11-28-2011, 09:25 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: i looked up foods rich in iodine and got 9743 different answers. so i'm going to eat seaweed.




Dairy foods tend to be rich in iodine because iodine is commonly added to feed in the U.S., according to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. Cow's milk is high in iodine, with 56 mcg in a single cup. Low-fat yogurt is also a good source of iodine, with 87 mcg per cup. Cheese also contains iodine, with 10 mcg in an ounce of mozzarella.


Vegetables and fruits take up iodine from the soil, making them potentially good sources of iodine. For example, a cup of strawberries contain about 13 mcg of iodine. Vegetables such as potatoes and beans also are good iodine sources. One medium potato supplies about 60 mcg of iodine, and one-half cup of navy beans contains about 30 mcg.

Thanks.

I stand corrected.

Apparently I got some bad information and didn't know it. A quarter teaspoon of my iodized salt contains only 67 mcg. Apparently I was getting enough iodine all along just not enough salt for a time.

As Roseanne Rosannadana might say ...nevermind.