Store Location & Hours | Iron Melts 50 Chewable Tablets Iron Melts Chewable Tablets 50 Sign up for hot offers and HUGE savings! View our privacy policyYour body needs iron to function. Iron is an essential nutrient that helps your vital organs get the oxygen they need. Signs of iron deficiency include pale skin, general fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness, brittle nails and hair, and difficulty concentrating at work or school. This preventable nutritional deficiency can lead to anemia. Iron deficiency affects nearly 3.5 billion Your body needs iron to function. One Lucky Iron FishTM can provide you with up to 90% of your recommended daily intake of iron. It's safe for the whole family to use, and is reusable for up to 5 years. Simply boil the Fish in any liquid or broth based meals to enrich your food and drinking water with iron. It's a simple, affordable, and effective solution anyone can use. Help us put a fish in every pot.®
When it comes to vitamins, it appears you could have too much of a good thing, say researchers who report a link between their use and higher death rates among older women.Experts have suspected for some time that supplements may only be beneficial if a person is deficient in a nutrient.And excess may even harm, as the study in Archives of Internal Medicine finds.All of the women, in their 50s and 60s, were generally well nourished yet many had decided to take supplements.Multivitamins, folic acid, vitamin B6, magnesium, zinc, copper and iron in particular appeared to increase mortality risk. The researchers believe consumers are buying supplements with no evidence that they will provide any benefit.They are quick to stress that their study relied on the 38,000 US women who took part in it recalling what vitamins and minerals they had taken over the previous two decades. And it is difficult to control for all other factors, like general physical health, that might have influenced the findings.
But they say their findings suggest that supplements should only be used if there is a strong medically-based cause for doing so because of the potential to cause harm."Based on existing evidence, we see little justification for the general and widespread use of dietary supplements," Dr Jaakko Mursu of the University of Eastern Finland and his research colleagues said.In the study, iron tablets were strongly linked with a small (2.4%) increased death risk, as were many other supplements. The link with iron was dose-dependent, meaning the more of it the individual took, the higher their risk was.Conversely, calcium supplements appeared to reduce death risk. However, the researchers say this finding needs more investigation and they do not recommend that people take calcium unless advised to by a doctor in order to treat a deficiency. Drs Christian Gluud and Goran Bjelakovic, who review research for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews to evaluate best evidence, said: "We think the paradigm 'The more the better' is wrong."
They say dietary supplementation has shifted from preventing deficiency to trying to promote wellness and prevent diseases, and caution: "We believe that for all micronutrients, risks are associated with insufficient and too-large intake."Helen Bond of the British Dietetic Association said some people, like the elderly, might need to take certain supplements. For example, vitamin D is recommended for people over the age of 65. But she said that generally, people should be able to get all the vitamins and minerals they needed from a healthy, balanced diet. She said some took supplements as an insurance policy, wrongly assuming that they could do no harm. "But too much can be toxic and it is easy to inadvertently take more than the recommended daily amount." Spatone® Liquid Iron is one of the UK's favourite iron food supplements!* Spatone iron is a natural liquid iron supplement that has been scientifically shown to be a highly absorbable source of iron**. It is readily and gently absorbed by the body.***
Spatone is packed into convenient one-a-day sachets, ideal for mixing with fruit juice or easy to use on the go! Suitable for vegetarians - No artificial colours - Gluten free Also available with a delicious apple taste and Vitamin C! *IRI HBA Outlets, 52 w/e 9th July 2016 **Halksworth et al. (2003). Lab. Haem, 25, 227-231. ***Nelsons Nutritional Study - The Significant Impact of Spatone Liquid Iron on Iron Level, 2009. Spatone is a natural, gentle and easily absorbed iron food supplement. Spatone comes in Original and Apple, in boxes of 14 and 28 sachets. How to Take Spatone Spatone is ideally taken diluted in orange juice, either in the morning on an empty stomach, or in-between meals. Iron food supplements such as are best taken together with vitamin C, e.g. a glass of orange juice. Please click here to see our published studies... is a fantastic product...! Read here what some of our consumers had to say about Spatone.