Can drinking ice tea or hot tea make me iron deficient?

Thanks for your question!

A health study on this says that unless you are already iron deficient, you don't really have to worry about drinking tea. Western populations tend to have adequate iron stores:

http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v56/n5/abs/1601309a.html

And here's what Consumer Reports Health has to say about it:

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/health/2008/03/qa-iron-blockin.html

Does that help? Do you know if you already have an iron deficiency, or were you just concerned about whether tea drinking might cause one?