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Virginia's Canaan Severin pushes the limits of sickle cell trait

ESPN.com | September 22, 2015

Related Topics: Virginia, Sickle cell trait, George Foreman, Brown rice, Sickle-cell disease

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Canaan Severin, a carrier of the gene for sickle cell anemia, ranks third in the ACC in catches (19) and yards (264).
  • David M. Hale

Each week this summer, Virginia wide receiver Canaan Severin would head to the grocery store and load up his cart with brown rice, green spinach leaves and 15 chicken breasts. For the next few days, when it was time to eat, he’d put the chicken on his George Foreman grill and heat up the rice and fix the world’s most boring salad with the spinach.

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