Oh absolutely. If you look at a bunch of studies on "healthy foods", you'll find that most of the foods associated with better health, are foods that block or chelate iron. Some people take IP6 (phytate pills, basically) to block iron with meals and to chelate it, to help beat cancer. Because cancer eats iron.
When you eat whole grains with a meal, the phytate in the hull gloms onto the iron and keeps it from getting absorbed. Which is a problem if you are eating a marginal diet with not much meat in it. But if you are eating the average American diet, which is super-high in iron (since many foods are fortified), then the hull prevents over-absorption. I think phytate gloms on to mercury too, which is a nice benefit.
Tea and calcium have this effect too, by the way, and chili. Taking vitamin C with a meal though, enhances iron absorption, which might lend some credibility to the Suzanne Sommer's crowd: don't eat fruit with meat.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:33 AM, RickS <rstewart@iaff.org > wrote:
I was thinking about this... Oats and all grains really, but especially oats have a high phytate content which binds to minerals and can cause mineral deficiencies. But I wonder if whole, complete, hull-on grains might almost be beneficial in keeping iron levels down?? Thoughts?
-Rick
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com , Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
> I'm still waiting for *someone* to start talking about the high ferritin
> levels that can (in some people) be caused by eating meat, grass-fed or
> otherwise. I don't think this means one shouldn't eat meat, because the heme
> iron can be blocked by taking calcium at the same meal for those people, but
> it might account for why some people feel so much better on a vegan diet.
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