Was it possible that I preferred this anemic-looking red — perilously close to a rosé, which my father had dismissed as sissyish and vulgar — to the Haut-Brion I'd tasted at my friend's dinner party?
Without enough iron, you can become anemic and your red blood cells wouldn't be able carry enough oxygen.
In addition to nuts, my nightly salad (a bowl big enough for four) now includes some avocado atop spinach, lettuce (not nutritionally anemic iceberg), arugula, zucchini, red pepper, asparagus, mushrooms and tomatoes.
These brownies made with cocoa, provided one uses high-quality cocoa (we prefer Ghirardelli or Droste), are far from "anemic" -- they're red-blooded and lusty, perhaps the most robust representatives of the brownie clan.
In a letter to Johnson & Johnson's Ortho-Biotech unit, the Food and Drug Administration criticized the company for promotional materials that suggested doctors use Procrit to help anemic chemotherapy patients increase their red blood cell levels to normal.
The most common treatment options for anemic patients include iron therapy, red cell transfusion, and erythropoietic-stimulating agents.
Its accompaniments of sliced red onions and pale, anemic tomatoes are best forgotten.
As any anemic can tell you, without sufficient red blood cells we become exhausted, unhealthy and depressed.
People infected with that virus tend to be anemic, so any increase in their red cell counts would not be a problem, he said.
That's why if you are anemic, that is have fewer functioning red blood cells, you feel run down.
