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What Makes You Happy?

Relationships
50% (1 vote)
Work
0% (0 votes)
Food
0% (0 votes)
Travel
50% (1 vote)
Family
0% (0 votes)
Other
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 2

What kind of self-help group have you or would you join?

Eating
100% (1 vote)
Substance Abuse
0% (0 votes)
Depression
0% (0 votes)
Gambling
0% (0 votes)
Cancer Survivor
0% (0 votes)
Other
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 1

How do you maintain your health and wellness?

eat healthy
33% (1 vote)
exercise
67% (2 votes)
see a doctor regularly
0% (0 votes)
get my rest
0% (0 votes)
spend time with family and friends
0% (0 votes)
other
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 3

How do you Stay Fit and Active?

Walk
33% (1 vote)
Gym
67% (2 votes)
I Don't
0% (0 votes)
Dance
0% (0 votes)
Other
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 3

Sickle Cell Anemia

By Sylvia Ojeh

A. Overview: What is Sickle Cell Anemia?

• Sickle Cell Anemia is a life-long genetic disease in which the body makes sickle-shaped (C-shaped) red blood cells.
• Normal blood cells are disk-shaped with holes in the middle that contain a protein called hemoglobin.
• Hemoglobin is the iron-containing molecule that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.
• Sickle cells that contain abnormal hemoglobin create the sickle-shaped cell.

One Mans Journey: Learning to Live with Diabetes

My experience with Diabetes

BLACK PATIENTS TWICE AS LIKELY TO DIE FROM CANCER

THURSDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Black cancer patients in the United States are up to two times more likely to die prematurely from their disease than patients of other races -- a disparity linked to factors that include patients, doctors and hospitals, a new review from the University of Michigan shows.

Should African people ignore experts and get regular testing for breast and prostate cancer

Yes
100% (3 votes)
No
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 3

The Sickle Cell Program at Children's Hospital Joins the Global Village

Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland is the only independent children’s hospital in Northern California. That's why it's able to focus all its attention and all its people on caring for children.
Children's Hospital Oakland, the oldest pediatric medical center between Los Angeles and Seattle, has provided exceptional medical care for children in the region and beyond for 95 years.

Honey as Medicine

CRUSH ONE HEAD OF GARLIC
CRUSH HALF OF A RED ONION
FILL WITH MANUKA HONEY[USE ANY HONEY UNTIL YOU CAN GET MANUKA HONEY AT WHOLE FOODS]
LEAVE COVERED IN BOTTLE FOR SEVEN DAYS
GIVE HALF A TEA SPOON EVERY MORNING
INCREASE TO ONE TEASPOON WHEN WELL TOLERATED
[MAY KEEP IN FRIDGE]

What makes you feel healthy?

Exercise
100% (3 votes)
Diet
0% (0 votes)
Friends
0% (0 votes)
Doctor
0% (0 votes)
Counselor
0% (0 votes)
Therapist
0% (0 votes)
Looking Good
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 3

A personal View of Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle Cell Anemia is a painful disease in which can limit a personal in many different ways. Sometimes just achieving the daily tasks a person has can be a challenge. Sickle cell disease is a genetic condition (mutation) in which is passed to the fetus and is considered the number one genetic mutation among All families. Sickle cell disease has been considered as a "black disease" however, anyone can have the trait and both parents contribute to if a child is born with sickle cell anemia.

Extreme Measures

As summer rapidly approaches many people go to extreme measures to get fit. Are you guilty? If so, what is your plan?

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