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Volume 21 I August 24, 2020 I email: agined@globalHQ.co.nz I www.farmersweekly.co.nz
Iron has many functions in our bodies but the main three crucial roles of iron are; to carry oxygen around the body, ensuring a healthy immune system and making energy.
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Iron is a mineral found in some foods and is essential for good health and for physical and mental well-being. Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional disorder in the world.
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suffering frequent infections, feeling the cold quickly, tiring easily, and having an inability to concentrate. When it comes to iron in our foods not all iron is created equal, for example, eating just 120g of lean rump beef steak provides the same amount of absorbable iron as 19 cups (1400g) of cooked silverbeet. Your body can use about 15-25% of the iron in red meat, but only about 5-12% of the iron in silverbeet.
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This week is iron awareness week, so we thought we would look at some relevant facts and figures on iron.
There are simple steps you can take to improve your iron intake;
Eat red meat and vegetables together, get plenty of vitamin C, not all iron is equal, choose red meat over white, keep you meals tannin free (drink tea and coffee between meals rather than with them), extra iron for exercise, beware of dieting, don’t rely on supplements, eat lean meat regularly for top iron intake.
In conjunction with Beef+Lamb NZ
In NZ statistics show that 1 in 14 women are low in iron and over 1/3 of teenage girls don’t achieve their daily iron requirements. One of the hardest things with detecting iron deficiency is that the symptoms are things that we often just put down to a busy lifestyle, like feeling tired or lethargic, often irritable or grumpy,
Teen girls are one of the groups that are impacted significantly by this silent epidemic and over a third are not getting their daily iron requirements. With things like rapid growth spurts, onset of menses and possible dietary introduced issues surrounding fad eating/dieting compounding any dietary lack of iron. For more information and links to a great podcast on this topic from Beef+Lamb NZ head to our website: https://sites.google.com/view/ agined/home We will also have links to some delicious iron boosting recipes and other informative resources from Beef+Lamb NZ
1 Go to www.farmersweekly.co.nz
2 Find and watch the OnFarm Story of Lee Askew “This is from my farm” and read the accompanying article “Askew is living the good life”. 3 Where does Lee Askew originate from? 4 Where in NZ is Shemshi Red Devon Beef based? 5 What breed of cattle does she breed and produce?
STRETCH YOURSELF: 1 What attributes do Red Devon cattle have that make them attractive for smaller-scale farming? 2 Lee believes that the public has a desire to know where their food originates from, with the paddock to plate ideology. Do you agree? Why or why not. 3 Lee sells a range of cuts of meat as well as ready to eat foods like gourmet pies and steak burgers. She has also added a biltong machine, what is this and what can you produce with it? 4 Lee also has other business diversifications on her property, what are these? 5 Where did the cattle stud name “Shemshi” originate from? What is its meaning?
FILL YA BOOTS: 1 What is the definition of a ‘steer’? 2 What is the difference between a ‘heifer’ and a ‘cow’?
1 Go the AgriHQ market snapshot page Average North Island 230kg one-year store steer
2 What was the South Island steer price last week? 3 How is this tracking compared to year-ago levels?
STRETCH YOURSELF: This graph shows the average North Island 230kg one-year store steer prices. 1 What has happened to the average one-year steer price in the last couple of weeks? 2 Good weather conditions recently have helped grass growth for many regions. Why do you think this has an impact on store cattle prices?
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