Keto Means
Keto Means
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Dried fruit provides significant amounts of iron, with each cup of dried apricots containing 7.5 milligrams and a cup of prunes containing 4.7 milligrams. Cooked green leafy vegetables are also good sources of iron, with each cup of boiled spinach containing 6.3 milligrams.
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Read More »You need iron to form healthy red blood cells that will carry oxygen around your body to where it's needed. Knowing the foods that are highest in iron will help you get the iron you need, especially if you have higher iron requirements. Women over 50 and men only need 8 milligrams per day, but younger women need to get 18 milligrams per day, and pregnant women need 27 milligrams each day. Meat and Seafood The iron from meat and animal products is called heme iron and is the most easily absorbed type of iron. Organ meats are particularly good sources, with 3 ounces of pork liver providing 15.2 milligrams of iron and the same amount of lamb kidneys providing 10.5 milligrams. Seafood can also be high in iron, with 3 ounces of cooked clams containing 11.8 milligrams and 3 ounces of cuttlefish containing 9.2 milligrams. A 3-ounce serving of grilled beef plate steak provides 4.6 milligrams of iron, making red meat another good source of iron. Beans and Other Legumes The nonheme iron in plants isn't as well absorbed as the iron from meats, but these foods can still provide you with significant amounts of iron. Each 1-cup serving of cooked white beans or lentils has 6.6 milligrams of iron. A 2-tablespoon serving of fortified peanut butter provides 5.3 milligrams of iron, as does a cup of cooked kidney beans. Grains and Cereals Fortified breakfast cereals sometimes provide all the iron you need for the day, with up to 18 milligrams per serving. A cup of either cooked amaranth or teff has 5.2 milligrams of iron, and most refined-grain products in the United States are fortified with iron, helping you increase your iron intake. Eating grain products or other plant-based sources of iron along with a source of heme iron, such as meat, poultry or seafood, will help you better absorb the nonheme iron in these foods.
Ketosis is a metabolic state that occurs when your body burns fat for energy instead of glucose. The keto diet has many possible benefits including...
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Potatoes contain drastically more vitamins, especially the B group, while tomatoes are rich in vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin K which potatoes lack....
Read More »You might get scurvy, like a pirate. Cooked meat contains very little vitamin C, notes Donald Beitz, a nutritional biochemist at Iowa State University. Without the vitamin, scurvy would bring on rashes and gum disease, not to mention very bad breath. Moreover, meat lacks fiber, so you'd probably be constipated.
You might get scurvy, like a pirate. Cooked meat contains very little vitamin C, notes Donald Beitz, a nutritional biochemist at Iowa State University. Without the vitamin, scurvy would bring on rashes and gum disease, not to mention very bad breath. Moreover, meat lacks fiber, so you’d probably be constipated. All in all, you wouldn’t be healthy or comfortable. That said, some groups of people have survived—even thrived—on an animal-only diet. Research suggests that traditionally the Inuit ate any number of meats, including seal, whale, caribou and fish. But they rarely, if ever, ate plant fiber. The key to their success, says Harriet Kuhnlein, the founding director of the Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment at McGill University in Montreal, was eating every part of the animal, “and you have to eat some of it raw.” Raw meat contains vitamin C (which is lost when cooked), and the skin, hooves and bones contain fiber. For greens, Kuhnlein adds, traditional Inuit “ate the stomach contents of caribou and deer.” Historically, they were quite healthy, she says; they almost never suffered from heart disease. Today, the meat-heavy diet lives on in the form of the controversial Atkins Nutritional Approach. Formulated by cardiologist Robert Atkins in the early 1970s, the diet prescribes that adherents dramatically cut their carbohydrate intake. The American Heart Association issued a statement in 2001 condemning the diet for cutting necessary sources of nutrients, stating that devotees were “at risk for compromised vitamin and mineral intake, as well as potential cardiac, renal [kidney], bone and liver abnormalities.” This article originally appeared in the June 2011 issue of Popular Science_ magazine._.
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