source of vitamin C,
separate intake of tea, other sources of tannin or other inhibiting
factors to between meals) are necessary prevention measures. Fortifying
commonly used basic foods can be an important adjunct as well as the use
of low-cost iron tablets, especially when combined with measures to
control parasitic infections and malaria, which sap human iron reserves.
That the problem of anaemia remains so widespread and apparently resilient
has been attributed to the low compliance with daily iron tablets in the
population affected as well as to the problems associated with maintaining
supplies in distribution centers (in addition to insufficient intake of
Iron from foods).
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