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PAGE P1Sports medicine experts have observed for years that 1endurance/1 athletes, particularly females, frequently have iron deficiencies. Now a new study by a team of Purdue University researchers suggests that even 2moderate/2 exercise may lead to reduced iron in the blood of women. We found that women who were normally inactive and then started a program of moderate exercise showed 3evidence/3 of iron loss, says Roseanne M. Lyle, associate professor at Purdue. Her study of 62 4formerly/4 inactive women who began exercising three times a week for six months was published in the 5journal/5 emMedicine Science in Sports Exercise./em P2Women who 6consumed/6 additional meat or took iron 7supplements/7 were able to 8bounce/8 back, she notes. But the new exercisers who followed their normal diet showed a decrease in iron levels. Iron deficiency is very mon among women in general, affecting one in four female teenagers and one in five women aged 18 to 45, 9respectively/9. But the 10ratio/10 is even greater among active women, affecting up to 80 percent of female endurance athletes. This means, Lyle says, that too many women ignore the amount of iron they take in. P3Women of 11childbearing/11 age are at greatest risk, since their monthly bleeding is a major source of iron loss. 12Plus/12, many health-conscious women increase their risk by rejecting red meat, which contains the most easily 13absorbed/13 form of iron. And because women often 14restrict/14 their diet in an effort to control weight, they may not consume enough iron-rich food, and are 15liable/15 to experience a deficiency. The average woman takes in only two thirds of the remended daily 16allowance/16 of iron, notes another expert. P4For a woman who already has a poor iron status, 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 result in iron loss through a variety of mechanisms. Some iron is lost in swe