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“The average woman takes in only two thirds of the recommended daily ___1___ for iron,” notes another expert. “For a woman who already has a poor iron ___2___ , any additional iron loss from exercise may be enough to tip her over the edge into a more serious deficiency,” notes the expert. Exercise can ___3___iron loss through ___4___mechanisms. Some iron is lost in sweat, and, for unknown reasons, intense endurance exercise is sometimes ___5___ with bleeding of the digestive system. Athletes in high-impact sports such as running may also lose iron through a phenomenon where small blood vessels in the feet leak blood. There are three stages of iron deficiency. The first and most common is having low iron ___6___, a condition that ___7___has no symptoms. Fatigue and poor performance may begin to appear in the second stage of deficiency, when not enough iron is present to form the molecules of blood protein that ___8___oxygen to the working muscles. In the third and final stage, people often feel weak, tired, and ___9___ ---- and exercise performance is severely ___10___ . 1. A) permission B) margin C) allowance D) admission 2. A) status B) statue C) studio D) state 3. A) result in B) result from C) come in D) come from 4. A) a lot of B) a variety of C) plenty of D) a series of 5. A) connected B) linked C) attached D) associated 6. A) storages B) reserves C) percentages D) amounts 7. A) only B) conveniently C) conventionally D) typically 8. A) send B) transport C) deliver D) transmit 9. A) short of breath B) Lack of breath C) out of breath D) in one breath 10. A) compromised B) composed C) compound D) complicated (3---2A-1) However, most people with low iron reserves don’t know they have a 1 , because traditional methods of calculating the amount of iron in blood (by checking levels of the blood protein that 2 oxygen) are not 3 , Beard states. 4 , it’s important to check lev