Are you getting enough iron

Having in iron in your diet is important, sometimes some of the reasons we tend to eat food is when things go wrong say for instance we might feel tired or lethargic, we know something is wrong but we don't quite know what it is say so in sheer desperation we may or may not eat some food after all this is what gives us energy in the first place.

As well as exercise and even though sometimes even after we have eaten the food we can still feel the same, and feel quite puzzled as to why this is it could be the food we are eating, that is causing the problem when you don't eat certain types of food your vitamins and minerals can become unbalanced in your body and this can cause cravings which will cause you to eat other foods which may or may not lead to weight gain, so now we can see why it's important that the food you eat contains the right minerals as well as vitamins also.

Iron in itself is a very important mineral if you don't have enough of it can lead to all sorts of problems, these being feeling tired, headaches, breathlessness, insomnia it plays a very important role in the body its main job is to transport oxygen around the body which goes to the vital organs and tissues, so if during your workout or general if you're feeling tired and lethargic and can't understand why this may be one of the things that you're lacking in your diet, so might be worthwhile checking to see if you eating enough of it.

Good sources of iron are chickpeas, branflakes, spinach, muesli, dried figs, vitamin C is very beneficial for the uptake of iron in your body so that these foods in order to get more benefit from this essential mineral vitamin C. sources are orange juice, green and red Peppers, tomatoes, broccoli and spinach.