Despite the fact that there is plenty of iron in our bodies, our environment, our earth, and our solar system, deficiencies in iron are among the most common diet-related ailments in humans. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (known as the CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), iron deficiency is the single most common nutritional deficiency in the United States and worldwide. That iron deficiency is pandemic in a world filled with iron is paradoxical, to say the least.
