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cherieann:
Thanks Sajid,

Been listening to music and reading quotes to keep me calm :wink

Here a couple that I like....

You have to believe in yourself and you have to dig down deep
within the bottom of your soul,
feel that you can do the job that you've set out to do.

William C Devries

The way in which we see ourselves has everything to do with how the world sees us
and how can we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.

Arlene Raven

There is nothing on Earth you can not have -
once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it. :biggrin

Robert Collier

nice friend:
Benefits
Being a carrier of the disease may confer a degree of protection against malaria,
and is quite common among people from Italian or Greek origin,
and also in some African and Indian regions.
This is probably by making the red blood cells more susceptible to the less lethal
species Plasmodium vivax, simultaneously making the host RBC environment unsuitable
for the merozoites of the lethal strain Plasmodium falciparum.
This is believed to be a selective survival advantage for patients with the
various thalassemia traits. In that respect it resembles another genetic disorder,
sickle-cell disease.

Epidemiological evidence from Kenya suggests another reason:
protection against severe anemia may be the advantage.[11].

People diagnosed with heterozygous (carrier) Beta-Thalassemia
have some protection against coronary heart disease.[12]

cherieann:

--- Quote from: nice friend on August 05, 2008, 01:22:59 PM ---Benefits
People diagnosed with heterozygous (carrier) Beta-Thalassemia
have some protection against coronary heart disease.[12]

--- End quote ---

 :woot Yes! another reason to smile.

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