Anemia is a medical condition that affects approximately 2-10%of United States residents with numbers in other countries beingconsistently higher. For some of these people, anemia is an ongoingconcern that is most often part of a larger medical condition. Forothers, anemia is only a temporary condition, caused by a thinningof the blood consistent with weight gain during pregnancy, orbleeding from a wound. People can guard against anemia bycultivating a healthy lifestyle and taking ordinary safetyprecautions. Proper functioning of the kidneys and bone marrow,along with proper nutrition, can help guard against anemia.Nonetheless, anemia still afflicts thousands of people, with womenbeing twice as likely to be anemic as men. Although anemia canoccur in people of any age, elderly people are mo