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0 pointsThriptic10y ago0 comments

And you can eat them in times of scarcity. The robotic ones aren't nearly as tasty.

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Speak for yourself. Diets motivated by iron deficiency are a real thing.

Although in modern times it's almost ridiculously hard to avoid added iron in food these days due to enforced fortification based on outdated ideas from the 1940's.

mapt10y ago

per http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/a-host-of-ills-when... , iron deficiency prevalence is 3% and iron excess intake prevalence is 12%.

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hellofunk10y ago

Speak for yourself. Diets motivated by iron deficiency are a real thing.

OldSchoolJohnny10y ago

Although in modern times it's almost ridiculously hard to avoid added iron in food these days due to enforced fortification based on outdated ideas from the 1940's.

mapt10y ago

per http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/a-host-of-ills-when... , iron deficiency prevalence is 3% and iron excess intake prevalence is 12%.

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