Welcome to Providence Christian Academy! Welcome to Providence Christian Academy. We are an inter-denominational Pre-K â 12th grade school located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Providence Christian Academy offers a classical education with a Christian worldview and parental involvement.
Food has two types of iron â heme iron and non-heme iron. Heme iron is found in meat, fish and poultry, and is the form of iron that is most readily absorbed from your stomach and taken up into your body after you eat it. Non-heme iron is found in plant foods as well as meat.
- Elements -. 29: IRON. Iron is an essential element in the diet. It is a component of body systems that are involved in the utilization of oxygen. It forms part of haemoglobin, the red pigment in blood, which allows oxygen to be carried from the lungs to the tissues. We cannot use all food sources of iron with equal efficiency.