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Mary is 15 years old and has just joined her high school swim team. After the first three months of training and competing, her coach sends the team for mandatory physical examinations and routine blood tests.
 
  When Mary got home, she told her mom that she has sports anemia. Why shouldn't Mary begin taking iron supplements as a way to treat this condition?
  a. The anemia is not correctable by extra iron intake.
  b. The anemia is most likely the result of folate deficiency.
  c. The iron will interfere with creatine phosphate synthesis.
  d. The iron will not be absorbed well because of the intense workouts.
  e. The use of iron supplements is forbidden by most athletic oversight commissions.

Question 2

The worst famine in the 20th century occurred in
 
  a. India.
  b. China.
  c. Ethiopia
  d. Ireland.


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Reply #1 on: Aug 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: A

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B


ericka1

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Reply 2 on: Aug 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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