I guess what this shows .. clearly .. is a diet low in iron ..
RESTRICTED .. iron .. one quarter of what .. 'they' .. recommend and
fortify our foods to MAXIMIZE .. is .. GOOD ..

'Their' recommended diet leads to increased hookworm developement .. as
evidenced BY the DECREASE of hookworm developement in those on what
'they' consider to be .. iron RESTRICTION ..

This is a low iron diet designed to lower iron levels in hepatitis
patients.

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The dietary allowance for Fe, as recommended by the Indian Council of
Medical Research is about 28 mg/d for males and about 30 mg/d for
females (Gopalan et al. 1989). In our specially formulated diet, we
decreased the Fe content of the diet to about 6·7 mg/d, without
compromising the energy and protein content of the diet. This diet was
primarily rice-based with casein as the main protein source. It
contained the daily allowances for all food groups except for pulses
and meat.
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The result was very good.
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This study shows the restriction of iron TO the point above .. what
they consider to be .. iron RESTRICTION the same as above ..
leads to DECREASED hookworm developement.

So logic would tell us the fortification of our foods to achieve / or
the recommended daily allowance of iron should be .. lowered ..

To one quarter of what they are recommending .. now ..

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Infected animals from the intermediate-dietary iron
(40- and 100-ppm) groups exhibited greater weight loss and anemia than
those in the low (10-ppm)-

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severe dietary iron restriction impairs hookworm development
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1: Infect Immun. 2006 Jan;74(1):289-95. Related Articles, Links

Dietary iron content mediates hookworm pathogenesis in vivo.

Held MR, Bungiro RD, Harrison LM, Hamza I, Cappello M.

Program in International Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, Yale
University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520.
michael.cappe...@yale.edu.

Hookworm infection is associated with growth delay and iron deficiency
anemia in developing countries. A series of experiments were designed
in order to test the hypothesis that host dietary iron restriction
mediates susceptibility to hookworm infection using the hamster model
of Ancylostoma ceylanicum. Animals were maintained on diets containing
either 10 ppm iron (iron restricted) or 200 ppm iron (standard/high
iron), followed by infection with A. ceylanicum third-stage larvae.
Infected animals fed the standard diet exhibited statistically
significant growth delay and reduced blood hemoglobin levels compared
to uninfected controls on day 20 postinfection. In contrast, no
statistically significant differences in weight or hemoglobin
concentration were observed between infected and uninfected animals fed

the iron-restricted diet. Moreover, iron-restricted animals were
observed to have reduced intestinal worm burdens on day 10 and day 20
postinfection compared to those of animals maintained on the
standard/high-iron diet. In a subsequent study, animals equilibrated on

diets containing a range of iron levels (10 ppm, 40 ppm, 100 ppm, or
200 ppm) were infected with A. ceylanicum and followed for evidence of
hookworm disease. Infected animals from the intermediate-dietary iron
(40- and 100-ppm) groups exhibited greater weight loss and anemia than
those in the low (10-ppm)- or high (200-ppm)-iron diet groups.
Mortality was also significantly higher in the
intermediate-dietary-iron groups. These data suggest that severe
dietary iron restriction impairs hookworm development in vivo but that
moderate iron restriction enhances host susceptibility to severe
disease.

PMID: 16368983 [PubMed - in process]

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