Do you know the food you eat?

I just came across a great site that i wanted to share with you. Healthy Eating Club Food Charts. 

I had just been told by my doctor to go off all alcohol and iron containing foods and supplements for a month. It seems my blood iron saturation levels have skyrocketed to 60% [when they should be 20%-25%]. Having always been on the low iron side, I have never really taken too much notice of what foods contained iron and which ones didn’t.

Seems all the healthy stuff life oatmeal, soymilk, coconut, almonds, etc are all high in iron. The interesting thing was that spinach was relatively low in comparison [sorry Popeye!]. Since these are the foods I consume in great quantity, I have probably been overloading.

After a week on this “diet” I am so bored with food that I was searching for some new ideas and thought the charts would provide some inspiration. One hour later, after reveiwing nearly all of the 50 charts they have online, I am sticking to my cream filled cookies and riding it out to the next blood test. Shame on me! But hey – the chart says they are lower in iron than all that good stuff above.

After a month, if the levels are still high, I will be tested for the hemachromatosis gene. Seems this is quite common. Easy cure – they just bleed you every few weeks until the level drops. Sounds all rather primitive doesn’t it. As long as they don’t use leeches I am fine. Those slimey things give me the heebi jeebies.

So, I thought I would share this site with you as I think it is extremely well put together and may be useful for anyone seeking to boost or reduce just one element of their food composition.

Happy eating…I’m off to find more cookies [then do a massive workout!!]

Nicola

 

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