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Article: New Recommendations for Iron and Zinc.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Vegetarian Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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The Institute of Medicine recently released new recommendations (Recommended Dietary Allowances or RDAs) for a number of vitamins and minerals, including iron and zinc. These minerals are especially noteworthy because special mention was made of vegetarian needs for these nutrients. These recommendations take the place of the RDAs for these nutrients that were last updated in 1989.
While vegetarians often have iron intakes that are similar to non-vegetarians, less of the iron is absorbed from a vegetarian diet. This is because iron from plant foods is all in the form of non-heme iron that is not as well absorbed as heme iron, found in meat and fish. The amount of ...