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Originally Posted by leftyf
I have to watch closely the foods I eat for the iron content. For instance, I ate Cheerios for breakfast for many years. After getting turned down for my platelet donation again, I went home and checked the iron content of all of the foods I eat. I found that one cup of cheerios has 45% of my daily iron needs. I stopped eating and switched to organic shredded wheat and organic raisin bran. I found on the net that nearly all adults do not need iron in their diets. There is no iron in the Senior Vitamin products, so why are they in our foods. Oh, I checked every cereal at Walmart and ALL of them have iron over 40% of your daily needs.
One of the best perks of donating platelets is that you get a blood test every time you donate. Really nice. I also monitor my cholesterol too.
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Those tests do help. The scale they had for a long time seemed to subtract about 5 to 7 lbs.
Pizza seems to have a lot of iron at least the frozen kind. Have to try to avoid it within a few days of when I donate platelets.