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   Cultural reasons to eat it or not, the myth explanation is a myth.   
      
   "Myth:   
      
   Meat is a "good" source of iron.   
      
   The false claim is often made by meat-industry   
   propagandists that meat is a "good" source of iron.   
      
   Original data from USDA #8."   
      
   Thereafter follows a chart of iron content by food source.   
      
   The reason meat is a good source of iron is that it is in a form very   
   easy to be absorbed during digestion.  The form found in plant sources   
   is bound in such a way that absorption is a fraction of that of the iron   
   in meat.  This is the case even when some plant sources are higher in   
   iron.   
      
   Low iron levels is a world wide problem among those who for cultural   
   reasons or reasons of poverty consume mostly a plant diet.  This hits   
   women and children hardest and iron fortification efforts are attempted   
   to provide what the diet does not.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)