Anemia Symptoms & How To Get Healthy, Red Cheeks

The rarity of the ruddy glow which healthy blood gives to the skin is a testimony to our borderline anemia that comes from a diet of refined foods.

Anemia literally means 'without blood.' Though anemia may result from hemorrhaging, more often the cause is too little red coloring material from oxygen-carrying hemoglobin, inside the blood cells.   


At other times not enough red cells can be produced to carry the oxygen load; or these cells die while still young, stay alive but fail to mature, become misshaped or too large, or disintegrate after reaching the blood stream. Healthy blood cells are produced in the bone marrow provided ample raw materials are supplied.  

Red blood cells, which normally live approximately 120 days, are constantly being destroyed and replaced. Each person should have 100%, or about 15 grams, of bright red hemoglobin in a half cup of blood and a blood count of 5 million red cells. Anemia exists when the hemoglobin is less than 80%, or 13 grams and/or the red cell count is fewer than 4 million.   

In all anemias, so little oxygen reaches the tissues that energy cannot be produced normally, and constant tiredness, lack of endurance, pallor, shortness of breath, and perhaps dizziness, headaches, and mental depression result.   Iron deficiency anemia is so well know that, unless one realizes anemia has many causes, iron is often taken when it may actually be harmful.  

Iron deficiency Anemia is just one. There is also Vitamin B deficiency Anemia, folic acid deficiency anemia, Vitamin E deficiency Anemia and Pernicious Anemia.

By: Ben Branklin

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