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[Elaine Koogler]

Also, in researching kitchen utensils for some writing I'm doing, I found
references to the idea that because food was often cooked in iron pots, folks
got their daily alotment of iron much easier than we do now because we don't
cook nearly do much in iron.........

Kiri

margali wrote:

> Actually, you would be amazed at how much [or or little] iron it takes
> to overload a system. Many people with the pennsic plague aren't
> reacting to the microbial growth but to the iron content in water. MAny
> people have problems metabolizing 'typical' amounts of various
> chemicals, my problem is with iron. i get the exact same result from a
> multivitamin with iron as I do by eating something cooked in cast iron.
> I pointed this out to my md. back when I was a girl sprout and had
> trouble on camp outs, and he did some sort of blood work and determined
> I have problems metabolizing iron. I just don't seem to be able to flush
> the excess out of my system fast enough, and I overload easily. It can
> happen with just about any dietary mineral, although I understand that
> people with the same problem with calcium have some particularly nasty
> side effects like calcium deposits in the soft tissues in the eye - ick!
>
> margali
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