Having too much iron in te body can prove just as harmful, just as fatal as not having enough.
Dr. Thomas Kinney, Durham, N. C, said when you have too much iron in your system you develop a disease called hemo-chromatosis.
"People don't realize what they're doing to themselves when they begin popping iron pills into their mouths willy-nilly without medical supervision/* warned the physician, Dr. Kinney, who heads the pathology department of Duke University, said too much iron is associated with diabetes, pigmentation of the skin, often referred to as bronze diabetes, and cirrohosis of the liver.
* 'Hemochromatosis accounts for 10 per cent of all cases of cirrhosis of the liver/' explained the pathologist, in town to deliver the fifth annual Urban Maes Foundation lecture, CHOKES UP CELLS Dr. Kinney said hemochro-matosis can be fatal since an overload of iron chokes up the cells and causes the body to stop functioning.
People who take too many liver pills are not the only victims of
