Iron is an interesting mineral. The body breaks down RBCs and recycles much of the iron so that 90% of a person's daily iron needs are met by the recycling of existing iron. The body really doesn't want to excrete it, thus some people end up absorbing too much iron even with a healthy diet, and the only way to thin it out is to have blood removed from the vein.
In answer to your question, your first course of action could be to look at the grains in your diet and replace them with iron-rich ones if you haven't already. So iron-fortified bread, iron-fortified breakfast cereal, and brown rice instead of white rice. Coffee can block iron absorption, so you'd want to make sure you don't have a coffee with breakfast or other meals - space it out. Red meat and oysters are excellent sources of iron, and of course plant foods don't contain any heme-iron (which is the more absorbable kind). However green leafy vegetables do contain significant amounts of nonheme-iron and are also a good source of iron. It should be noted that we don't know a lot about iron absorption, while I believe the current estimates are that heme-iron 15% of dietary iron, there are those arguing that it could contribute much more than that, and do note that meat contributes both kinds of iron (so that 15% of heme-iron probably represents meat contributing 30% or so total dietary iron in the average healthy diet).
In answer to your question, your first course of action could be to look at the grains in your diet and replace them with iron-rich ones if you haven't already. So iron-fortified bread, iron-fortified breakfast cereal, and brown rice instead of white rice. Coffee can block iron absorption, so you'd want to make sure you don't have a coffee with breakfast or other meals - space it out. Red meat and oysters are excellent sources of iron, and of course plant foods don't contain any heme-iron (which is the more absorbable kind). However green leafy vegetables do contain significant amounts of nonheme-iron and are also a good source of iron. It should be noted that we don't know a lot about iron absorption, while I believe the current estimates are that heme-iron 15% of dietary iron, there are those arguing that it could contribute much more than that, and do note that meat contributes both kinds of iron (so that 15% of heme-iron probably represents meat contributing 30% or so total dietary iron in the average healthy diet).
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"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
