Food Therapy: Coffee Adverse effect in Increased Risk of Iron Deficient Anemia

By Kyle J. Norton

In compared to herbal medicine, food therapy even takes longer to ease symptoms, depending to stage of the treatment which directly address to the cause of disease.

Coffee, a popular and social beverage all over the world, particular in the West, is a drink made from roast bean from the Coffea plant, native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.

Dietary iron is an important mineral for our body to make oxygen-carrying proteins hemoglobin for red blood cells and myoglobin for muscle functioning as well as wide variety of metabolic processes, including oxygen and electron transport, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis......

Coffee may interfere digestive track function in absorbed nonheme iron from dietary sources, a respectable study suggested.

According to the lead author of the study, a cup of coffee intake showed to reduce iron absorption from a hamburger meal by 39%, in compared to 64% of tea, a potent inhibitor of iron absorption.

Even more interestingly, ingested a cup of drip coffee or instant coffee with a meal composed of semipurified ingredients, rate of iron absorption was reduced from 5.88% to 1.64 and 0.97%, respectively

In the time length basic, coffee exhibited same degree of iron inhibition regardless an hour before or after the meals. 

Furthermore, the authors also found that change of concentration of coffee intake may also interfere with rate of inhibition.

In the prevention of dietary consumption of induced iron deficiency, intake of  iron inhibited beverage such as tea and coffee are recommended to add iorn enhanced absorption foods into their diet such as ascorbic acid and meat, fish and poultry;... and reduced intake calcium.

Importantly, depletion of iron stores may only have minimum effect on enhanced iron absorption in people who follow an inadequate dietary situation, thus increased risk iron deficient anemia without even knowing it.

There is an algorithm established by the the University of Göteborg, to calculate the amount of iron absorption without injection of dietary enhancers and inhibitors, using basal dose absorption of 40% in compared to different amounts of dietary factors known to influence iron absorption by measuring iron absorption from 24 complete meals with mean iron absorption in 31 subjects served a varied whole diet labeled with heme- and nonheme-iron tracers over a period of 5 days.

However, researchers of the study also said, "This algorithm has several applications. It can be used to predict iron absorption from various diets, to estimate the effects expected by dietary modification, and to translate physiologic into dietary iron requirements from different types of diets".

The findings suggested that coffee may have inhibited effect in reduced digestive system functioning in absorption of dietary iron. Therefore, people with iron deficient anemia should take only coffee with an extra portion of iron enhancers in their meal.

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Author biography
Kyle J. Norton, Master of Nutrients
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Inhibition of food iron absorption by coffee by Morck TA, Lynch SR, Cook JD.(PubMed)
(2) Effect of tea and other dietary factors on iron absorption by Zijp IM1, Korver O, Tijburg LB.(PubMed)
(3) Prediction of dietary iron absorption: an algorithm for calculating absorption and bioavailability of dietary iron by Hallberg L1, Hulthén L.(PubMed)