Malnutrition among US women. "This is the stuff that keeps me up at night,” says prof. Bailey. And ability to have healthy children? “Going into reproductive age at nutrition risk can cause intergenerational effects"
Important story by @ANDREAAPETERSEN
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Important story by @ANDREAAPETERSEN
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This is a problem not just among teens but women of reproductive age. Slide from a recent talk I gave: 
The consequences for children of B12 deficiency
(NIH information)
(NIH information)
From WSJ: “Adolescent girls gain 40%-60% of their bone mass from 11-14 years of age,” says Dr. Rome--why calcium, Vit D, magnesium are so critical during this time. But 94.3% of 14-18y old girls eat less than the recommended amount of dairy foods--good sources of calcium, Vit D
And 53.6% of girls, age 14-18y, eat less than the recommended amounts of iron-rich meat, poultry. eggs, according to govt data.
Why? Maybe they are responding to idea that red meat is bad. Tho red meat has 2x more iron than white meat. And iron from meat far more easily absorbed
Why? Maybe they are responding to idea that red meat is bad. Tho red meat has 2x more iron than white meat. And iron from meat far more easily absorbed
Important to discuss the real health consequences of cutting out meat. Costs + benefits have not been analyzed, and yet we're taking the plunge into eliminating meat from menus, dinner tables, etc. My recent talk on this issue:
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