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EAT YOUR SPINACH POPEYE!

GOWAR Posts: 361 Joined: 2001/10/24	2005/03/02, 12:17 AM Does eating foods with high Iron content, or supplementing Iron really help to make your body and muscle more solid and strong???? What does eating Iron do for you exactly?
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2005/03/02, 01:18 AM Do not supplement with iron. Men do not need it. Spinach is good for so many other things, magnesium, luetins, carotenes, etc. -------------- If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.... bb1fit@freetrainers.com
GOWAR Posts: 361 Joined: 2001/10/24	2005/03/02, 01:54 PM Well the other day I was going to buy some more vitamins since I ran out, and I saw some new vitamins that included 100% iron on a 2000 calorie diet, and here in college they really dont serve beats or spinach that is in good eating shape. Why don't men need it? I'm only 18.
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2005/03/02, 01:58 PM I think men don't need it because you have a higher amount of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen throughout your system, which is what iron helps facilitate (did i just mangle that?) -------------- Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare. -- Japanese Proverb --
princesslodgey Posts: 1,748 Joined: 2004/02/21	2005/03/02, 02:43 PM men don't need it because they don't lose half their iron every month :)
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2005/03/02, 02:52 PM ============ Quoting from princesslodgey: men don't need it because they don't lose half their iron every month :) ============= In other words....we dont menstrate! -------------- Scales are for dead weight: We are not dead yet! Still trying to find out how to do the Hollywood Free Press. Ivan carivan@freetrainers.com Montreal Canada
lexballer13 Posts: 165 Joined: 2003/10/15	2005/03/02, 04:33 PM Also true asimmer
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2005/03/02, 07:04 PM Iron is nature’s rusting agent, and excess levels of iron in our bodies is one of the most potent ways that our body becomes oxidized, or prematurely aged. Most men have a problem with too much iron because iron is not readily excreted through the body's usual excretory routes of urine, bile and sweat but rather the primary way in which iron is lost is through the shedding of cells from the skin or gastrointestinal tract or through blood loss, as in menstrual blood loss or chronic or acute hemorrhage. -------------- If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.... bb1fit@freetrainers.com
GOWAR Posts: 361 Joined: 2001/10/24	2005/03/10, 12:24 AM OH WOW! I didnt know that, but doesnt it help you get more solid at all? Whats the deal then with Popeye and spinach, and everyone always telling you when you're a kid to eat your spinach so you can get strong like Popeye?
howdiekat Posts: 1,345 Joined: 2003/05/22	2005/03/10, 12:46 AM i think the best explanation is that popeye is a cartoon. not just any cartoon, but a strong cartoon. parents will say anything to get their kids to eat vegetables. using a role model who is enhanced by an artist's pen instead of eating is an easy way to lie to children about the effects of certain foods. -------------- if you get me started on quentin tarantino films, chances are you won't be able to shut me up. excuses are really good for making you fat. margarine is a liar who announces, "i am butter!"
princesslodgey Posts: 1,748 Joined: 2004/02/21	2005/03/10, 05:18 AM The reason popeye ate spinach is because decades ago when an anlysis of the iron content of various foodstuffs was done, somebody put the decimal point in the wrong place for spinach. For years people thought that spinach had ten times as much iron in as it actually had.
howdiekat Posts: 1,345 Joined: 2003/05/22	2005/03/11, 03:34 AM and what princess said, too. -------------- if you get me started on quentin tarantino films, chances are you won't be able to shut me up. excuses are really good for making you fat. margarine is a liar who announces, "i am butter!"
GOWAR Posts: 361 Joined: 2001/10/24	2005/03/14, 02:25 AM hmmmmmmmmmm, Interesting, It's just that When I have fresh spinach readily available from my college meal plan and I ate it like every other day it seemed to help.
Lonegirl Posts: 446 Joined: 2002/11/13	2005/03/14, 09:35 AM Here is a link for the benefits of spinach....very interesting http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=43 Eat your greens....they are good for you :)
GOWAR Posts: 361 Joined: 2001/10/24	2005/03/15, 12:46 AM So would it be a bad idea to take a Multi-vitamin with Iron in it????? How much Iron is in beef or meat in general?
GOWAR Posts: 361 Joined: 2001/10/24	2005/03/20, 04:50 AM ??????????
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2005/03/20, 11:05 AM Don't buy a multi with iron being a male. Eat your beef, etc., that is fine. You simply do not need to supplement with it. -------------- If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.... bb1fit@freetrainers.com