The Iron Counter

By Annette B. Natow

Book Overview

Too much dietary iron may be second only to smoking among the risks for heart disease, according to a recent, revolutionary Finnish study. The results of the five-year research program, reported in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, further suggest that iron, a vital nutrient often added to foods and supplements, may be stored in our bodies and accumulate as we age--promoting cancer, arthritis, and other disorders. And a 1989 study showed that, while a country's average cholesterol reading may not correspond directly to its heart attack rate, its combined cholesterol-and-iron count usually does.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451637349
• ISBN13: 9781451637342
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

my iron bible

This is a wonderful book to help guide those of us with Hemochromatosis through the grocery aisles and into our homes! I use it all the time to check on foods I am not sure about. Sometimes there is a surprize in that there is no iron content in something I like!