"Health experts pulled together the results of 110 separate scientific and medical research studies to paint a worrying picture of what the UK's female population eats... ...They discovered that even at school age, more than half of girls aged 11-18 to not get the recommended intake of such minerals as magnesium, found in fruit and veg to increase energy. One in four were not getting enough zinc, 30 per cent were lacking potassium, 16 per cent were deficient in iodine and almost half failed to reach recommended levels of iron in their diet. Between the ages of 19 to 50, 20 per cent of women were still not getting enough iron, vital for the production of healthy red blood cells, and 11 per cent had a deficiency in the vitamin B2. In particular there was a worrying lack of vitamin D among this child-bearing age group as this is the vitamin pregnant women need to strengthen a baby's bones and reduce the risk of an underweight birth. Up to 80 per cent of adult women get less than the amount recommended by EU health organisatons."
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