For quite some time my legs have been hurting and it seems like the last few years they have gotten worse. I didn't know what the problem was until I started seeing commercials for RLS. However, I didn't want to go to a doctor, I wanted my legs cured, not treated. Plus, I don't have insurance and not that much money. So I first Googled what the cause was attributed to, Diabetes, Anemia, Iron Deficiency, etc. I narrowed it down to Iron
because I didn't think I was getting enough Iron in my food. Googled Foods Rich in Iron, http://www.bloodbook.com/ iron-foods.html
Came up with this:
Some Good Sources Foods Rich in Iron* (Dietary Iron) are:
List of Grains Rich in Iron: Iron (mg.)
Brown rice, 1 cup cooked 0.8
Whole wheat bread, 1 slice 0.9
Wheat germ, 2 tablespoons 1.1
English Muffin, 1 plain 1.4
Oatmeal, 1 cup cooked 1.6
Total cereal, 1 ounce 18.0
Cream of Wheat, 1 cup 10.0
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Pita, whole wheat, 1 slice/piece, 6 ½ inch 1.9
Spaghetti, enriched, 1 cup, cooked 2.0
Raisin bran cereal, 1 cup 6.3
Took Cream of Wheat (because I liked it better than Total) and almost instantaneously my legs felt better! However, I don't want any of you to think I just took it once and that was it. I've been taking it now for almost two weeks, once in the morning and once at night and my legs feel great. I still can't believe such a simple thing as adding more Iron to my diet would help, but it did. Now I want to tell everyone about my amazing discovery.
Hope this works for you the way it did for me!!!
