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NUTRITION - HEALTH







                    Must we have an iron supplementation ?




          In prevention, it’s useless and potentially  Treatments by iron injections are reserved for
          dangerous on the long term.                         pathological situations (strong iron-deficiency
                                                              anaemia) and must be supervised by a doctor.
          In case of real deficiency, oral supplements are not  You mustn’t forget that high-dose iron is a toxic
          very efficient and can have side effects (digestive  element.
          problems).
                                                              Be careful with hazardous auto-supplementations !













































           Iron is hidden in many of our foods to consume more or less regularly



                                  Bibliographical references




         Riché D. Nutritional guide of endurance sports,       CMAJ. 2012 Aug 7;184(11):1247-54
         2nd edition, Vigot (1998).
                                                               A Case Study of an Iron Deficient Female Olympic
         Effect of iron supplementation on fatigue in          1500m Runner. Pedlar CR., and al. Int J Sports
         nonanemic menstruating women with low ferritin:       Physiol Perform. 2013 Feb 20
         a randomized controlled trial. Vaucher P et al.,


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