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Dietary Diversification

Countries with public health problems of anemia and iron deficiency should promote dietary diversity and improvement as a part of an integrated strategy to prevent iron deficiency, but this cannot be expected to solve the problem on its own. It is important to learn of those commonly consumed foods and meals that contain iron and promote its absorption, and then to promote more use of these in family diets. However, iron nutrition improvement based on dietary promotion is generally limited because the iron availability in vegetables is poor and attempts to increase meat consumption, with its better-absorbed iron, are often met by economic and sometimes religious constraints.

 

Iron Deficiency Project Advisory Service International Nutrition Foundation Web site: http://www.micronutrient.org/IDPAS Email: idpas@inffoundation.org Phone (1-617) 636-3770 Fax: (1-617) 636-3781 Project Office: 150 Harrison Street, Boston, MA, 02111 Gerald J. & Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University