What is the importance of iron in diet? What is the disease caused by iron deficiency?
Iron acts as a constituent of the hemoglobin molecule and of enzymes of the digestion and energetic metabolism. Dietary iron deficiency causes iron deficiency anemia, abnormal lowering of hemoglobin concentration in blood due to lack of iron. (In pregnancy there is a high consumption of iron by the fetus and this fact can lead to anemia.)
