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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 59, 1233S-1237S, Copyright © 1994 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Iron status of vegetarians

WJ Craig
Department of Nutrition, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104- 0210.

An appropriately planned well-balanced vegetarian diet is compatible with an adequate iron status. Although the iron stores of vegetarians may be reduced, the incidence of iron-deficiency anemia in vegetarians is not significantly different from that in omnivores. Restrictive vegetarian diets (eg, macrobiotic) are associated with more widespread iron-deficiency anemia. Western vegetarians who consume a variety of foods have a better iron status than do those in developing countries who consume a limited diet based on unleavened, unrefined cereals. Whereas phytates, polyphenolics, and other plant constituents found in vegetarian diets inhibit nonheme-iron absorption, vitamin C, citric acid, and other organic acids facilitate nonheme-iron absorption.


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