Taking your supplement at the right time of day and with certain foods can boost how your body absorbs the iron.
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Apart from folic acid and iodine, other supplements may not be needed. For the most part, they’re a waste of money. At worse, they could harm.
Despite their small size, infants and children actually require about the same amount of iron as adults, to help them grow. Many aren’t getting enough.
In some communities, over a quarter of the children were misclassified as iron replete whereas they were iron deficient.
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