health challegne

My twin sister and I were anemic as children. Every morning for breakfast, we found a small glass of orange juice with iron in it in front of our plate. To this day, I cannot drink orange juice without remembering that awful taste. There was no way we could eat enough iron-rich foods to correct our anemia. My mother certainly tried that, too. How much liver can a 6-year-old skinny girl eat?

Little did my mother know, mixing the iron with our orange juice allowed the iron to be better absorbed than had we taken it alone. Most vitamins and minerals work best when coupled with other nutrients.