
Mysterious Feedback Special, September 2022
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Is There an Iron Deficiency?
A j t r, latinist: How did children who were tending flocks develop an iron deficiency? They should have access to mutton, which is a red meat with lots of iron. But not necessarily. There are situations where people do keep flocks and don't eat from their own flocks. And that could be something the children made up as part of a cover story or it could have been something that got mangled in transmission. If you eat too many carrots, you will turn orange. You might hypothetically get caranoderma even if you're eating greens. The green color in vegetables is caused by chlorophyl but a chlorophyl breaks down very quickly
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