I was just biting into my Power Bar when I read on the label that it contains iron 35% and copper 35%. And I stopped chewing immediately because I wondered if I was really eating liquified metal pieces of tiny shreds or something. Please tell me I‘m being ridiculous and that it‘s not true.
Nah, it's not actually metal. The human body, believe it or not, needs certain amounts of those things. Iron is essential for our blood, if we don't have enough, we become anemic. We also need certain amounts of copper to help with things like our skin, nails, and hair. You're just fine!
To stay healthy, the food you eat should contain several metals, most of them in very small amounts; sodium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper and cobalt among others. Not in a pure form, but in the form of soluble compounds. For instance, iron is a shiny, grey, fairly hard metal, but in the form of ferric oxide, it's a brown powder which your body can absorb. You need only a tiny, almost microscopic pinch a day to stay healthy. Ordinary everyday foods like meat and green vegetables contain compounds of iron like these. Ordinary salt is made of sodium, a poisonous metal which would burn you if you tried to eat it, and chlorine, a poisonous green gas. When they're chemically combined they're completely changed and you can safely sprinkle it on your food.
It this area it is not blacks, it is whites. A person of color would get shot no questions asked. A white person caught stealing might get shot but more likely some body would just call the police.
