Lentils, sweet potatoes and swiss chard are on the list of foods that people with sickle cell should love. Here is my favorite lentils recipe from the New York Times. It’s not too spicy, but you can limit the jalepenos if you wish. If you don’t have swiss chard, you can substitute spinach instead, and […]
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Tosin’s thoughts as we move forward in celebration in September, the month for sickle cell awareness in the United States.
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This week’s warrior in the Spotlight is none other than Chaznee Brown. Besides holding down a full time job as a secretary in a genetics clinic and completing 3000 licensure hours to become a counselor and therapist; Chaznee also runs an active Sickle Cell advocacy group in the Bay area, California. Oh yeah, and she has sickle cell.
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There were limited breakthroughs in sickle cell research this week. A group that studies lipids released a paper that identified certain levels of high-density lipo-proteins in children with sickle cell. This can be used in the future as bio-markers to target medical research. It’s very techy, but for those inclined, read more on it HERE.
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This weeks’ warrior; Abisola is quite a personality. Read on to learn about his college years, life, struggles with sickle cell and of course, his many successes. How old where you when you found out you had sickle cell? Since I was a baby. How did your childhood and your parents influence you in your
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Have you ever thought about sickle cell from a different perspective? Tosin explains how she has changed her view of sickle cell over the years. The sufferer is no more. I’m turning 30 in a few months, and as I look back on my sickle cell journey, I realize that I learned the most about
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One of the readers on the SCW Facebook page recently got me thinking about foods rich in anti-oxidants and how they can help with sickle cell. In a normal body, there are free radicals (excess oxygen ions from the energy process), that are not naturally excreted from the body. These free radicals wreck havoc on
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Once again, it’s a slow research week. The only thing to report from last week is the following: AesRx is developing a pill form of Aes-103, a small molecule pill that could reduce the number of red blood cells that can sickle. The company plans to begin human clinical trials in 2011. I couldn’t find
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Nick, one of my favorite Warriors in the Spotlight, reflected recently on his best coping mechanism for dealing with sickle cell. And now here is the secret, for all of you.
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Here is my go to recipe for green leafy veggies.
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