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3 responses to “Weird Thought”

1. 2005/04/18

   bartb

   re: Weird Thought

   “the average human contains about four grams” (www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=iron)

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2. 2005/04/18

   Dave Walker

   re: Weird Thought

   As a further side comment, the iron in haemoglobin is in a +3 oxidation state. The iron in spinach is in a +2 oxidation state. Therefore, while spinach is good for you in other ways, the fact that it is a significant source of iron doesn’t actually help its case much :-).

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3. 2005/04/18

   bartb

   re: Weird Thought

   Your body can process the iron from spinach when it’s processing iron from (say) steak, but not when it is just processing spinach alone…

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