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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old is your child?  Does she have an iron deficiency?  If not, I wouldn't worry so much.  Children don't need huge amounts of iron -- just what is proportional to their size.  [/quote]

She is 4 and has no iron deficiency that I know of. I am asking about that because we had her well visit last week and the doctor asked  how is her iron intake and I said she eats some type of meat at least once a day. But I got kind of curious….

How does iron work in the body? Do we need a daily intake or just to keep a certain level? What I mean is, if I don't eat any or very little iron the whole week, but on Friday I eat some beef liver - does that make up for it?

I am just wondering if it is something I have to worry everyday and start serving read meat often or we can just keep doing what we have been doing….[/quote]

Why don't you google some phrase along the lines of "what foods have iron?" and then look at the results and see which of those foods your children would like, and then serve those?  Meat may have iron, [b]but it also serves a dose of high cholesterol.[/b][/quote]

And? [/quote]

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