More than one-third of all women of productive age and children below the age of 5 years are known to suffer from anemia As per the data by World Health Organisation Anemia is a disease in which the number of red blood cells and the concentration of hemoglobin is reduced There may also be a presence of abnormal hemoglobin Red blood cells RBCs are specialized cells that are present in our blood and they contain a protein known as hemoglobin This hemoglobin present in the RBCs attaches to the oxygen in the lungs Thus the blood supplies this oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body Any reduction in the number of RBCs or hemoglobin and abnormality in hemoglobin results in a decreased oxygen-carrying capacity and subsequently decreases the oxygen supply to various vital body tissues