Article: Iron excess: a nutritional hazard.

Article: The nutritional hazard of second-hand cigarette ...
Environmental Nutrition;  February 1, 1994 ;     460 words ...Breathing in someone else's cigarette smoke may pose a nutritional risk, warn researchers of a new study. It was discovered that despite similar vitamin C intakes, nonsmokers who live or work with a smoker for at least 20 hours a week have, on average, vitamin C blood levels 24% lower than people

Article: COMMENTARY: College cooking 101 -- a nutritional ...
University Wire;  October 18, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Elizabeth Stanek University Wire 10-18-2001 (Cavalier Daily) (U-WIRE) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- I knew my grocery situation was in a state of utter despair when my mother started sending me soy protein bars in the mail. Perhaps she was worried I had adopted one of those weekend liquid diets so many

Article: Dietary iron levels and hypoxia independently affect ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The effect of dietary iron levels on the hypoxic response of iron absorption was investigated by feeding mice diets of different iron composition and determining iron absorption. Eight groups of mice were fed a purified diet consisting ...

Article: Iron supplement use among women in the United States: ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The use of iron supplements is an accepted treatment for nonhereditary anemia. The use of iron supplements as prophylaxis is more controversial ... persons who consumed supplements that contain iron among the following groups: nonpregnant ...

Article: iron
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...iron metallic chemical element; symbol Fe [Lat. ferrum ]; at ... 7.87 at 20°C; valence +2, +3, +4, or +6. Iron is biologically significant. Because iron is a component of hemoglobin, a red oxygen-carrying pigment ...

Article: Iron deficiency alters brain development and ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Iron deficiency anemia in early life is related ... neurobiology of myelination. The acquisition of iron by the brain is an age-related and brain ... tightly controlled rates of movement of iron across the blood-brain barrier. Dopamine ...

Article: Iron regulatory proteins, iron responsive elements ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Iron Regulatory Proteins, Iron Responsive Elements and Iron Homeostasis1,2 ABSTRACT The discovery of iron regulatory proteins (IRPs) has provided a molecular framework from which to more fully understand the coordinate regulation of vertebrate ...