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From: jsf@rlgvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Vitamin C and iron
Message-ID: <409@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 11:27:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 11:27:37 1987
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I've been reading in various sports/fitness magazines that it is important
to have a source of vitamin C with every meal, because vitamin C helps
your body absorb the iron in your meal.  Can some one explain how this 
works?  It's seems to me that the vitamin C already in your body would 
have a greater effect then that in the meal.  Is this just a way
of assuring that you have enough vitamin C in general, and that is what
helps with the iron?

Thanks.

-- 
Steve Fritzinger
CCI-OSD  Reston, Va.  seismo!rlgvax!jsf
"Just because I'm joking, it doesn't mean I'm wrong."  -  Me
"Of course it's no guarantee you're right either."  -  Someone else