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Article: FROM SPINACH TO FERROCHELATASE HEMOGLOBIN IRON DWINDLES AS OLD AGE PUSHES ON; HEME DEFICIENCY ALSO ASSAILS ALZHEIMER'S PATIENTS.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 6, 2002
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Today's topic starts out with spinach (Spinacia oleracea).
This green, leafy vegetable has a unique rep. At least in the U.S., mothers ply their kids with it because spinach is said to be loaded with iron, a source of health and strength. Popeye the Sailorman's refrain goes: "I'm great at the finish 'cause I eat my spinach."
Then there was the classic 1928 New Yorker cartoon, in which a distraught mom cajoles her highchair-bound child: "Darling, I say it's broccoli!" To which Darling comes back, "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it!"
The iron-in-spinach mystique is something of a myth. In one version, which ran in the July/August ...