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Part Nine

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Mary asks:

What does high sugar mean and low in iron mean?

I need to know what page you were reading? What's the context here?

Hello Mary,
This is slightly outside my area of knowledge.

If you are Banting, any sugar in the diet is to be avoided. In that context there should be zero added sugar.

It sounds more like we're talking about fruit in the diet, in which case bananas and grapes are usually described as "high sugar" and it's recommended that your avoid them of eat only a little.

When people who are not eating a VLCHF diet, (not Banting) talk about low sugar, they mean feeling hungry again. If diabetic that may mean a bit more, and people have been told to suck on a small glucose lolly. Once even diabetics are adapted to a VLCHF diet, they are mostly fat burning, there are no glucose highs, and no glucose lows. The liver produces all the glucose you need.

As for iron, it's not something I've needed to study for myself. I eat lots of offal meats and muscles (shellfish). I understand that for most people, and babies, low iron is a potential problem. Cereals fortified with iron are commonly sold, but this is not a good solution. Apparently phytates that are in wholegrains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, bind to some minerals including iron, and reduce it's bio-availability. Eat meat yourself, and feed you baby meat too.

For women iron can be a problem I understand. Zoë Harcombe in the UK would be the "go to place for me" if I needed to find out more.

Open Future Health has a page about Zoë Harcombe here.

Dr Zoë Harcombe's own site is here. But sadly most of her material is now behind a pay wall.

SO what does Google offer? It wasn't hard to find many references. Health-Line was a good start. My only comment is that dietary sources of iron are probably easier to absorb than supplements. And "iron fortified" cereals are not on my shopping list.

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