Betty has just been diagnosed with iron-deficiency anemia. Which of the following would NOT be good advice for Betty to follow to increase the body's absorption of dietary iron?
A: eating meat with beans and vegetables
B: cooking her food in a cast-iron pan
C: drinking a class of orange juice with her breakfast cereal
D: drinking a glass of milk with her iron supplement
D: drinking a glass of milk with her iron supplement (Milk can reduce iron absorption by more than half.)
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a. true b. false
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A. preterm and full-term infants B. low-birthweight and normal-birthweight infants C. exclusively or predominantly breastfed infants D. formula-fed infants E. infants fed equal amounts of formula and breast milk
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