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The present paper aims to present theiron deficiency reduce individuals’ wellbeing, cause fatigue and lethargy, and impair physical capacity and work performance. Median losses in physical productivity due to iron deficiency are important. Failure to reduce anemia worldwide consigns millions of women to impaired health and quality of life, generations of children to impaired development and learning, and communities and nations to impaired economic productivity and development. Maternal anemia is associated with mortality and morbidity in the mother and baby, including risk of miscarriages, stillbirths, prematurity and low birth weight. The most common cause of anemia appears to be diet-related iron deficiency which is generally an insufficient quantity of dietary iron to meet the enhanced needs during specific life phases (infancy and young childhood, adolescence, and pregnancy).