Donating blood savings lives and burns calories!

salsasally

Donating blood burns approx 630 calories per session! I donate regularly but now I realize I should definitely try and do it more often!!

Saving 3 lives AND you get to eat more that day? Everyone wins!! :happy:

rie_q

You've linked to a file on your computer, not one on the internet. We can't see it.

TXEXrunner

Thanks for sharing - I did not know this! Another reason to donate.

MoreBean13

The 630 calories take 56 days to make up, though. lol.

tuckerrj

Transfusion Medicine, article entitled:

Six hundred reasons to donate blood

D. A. Redelmeier

Article first published online: 21 DEC 2001

Just_Scott

good resource Brother. But 56 days....ouch. Like the facts though.

Laughter_Girl

I never knew that. That's the reason why they offer cookies and juice afterwards. They are trying to replenish the calories lost. Interesting. Next time I'll tell them to keep the cookies and juice. I'll bring my own healthy snacks. Thanks for sharing.

meshashesha2012

I never knew that. That's the reason why they offer cookies and juice afterwards. They are trying to replenish the calories lost. Interesting. Next time I'll tell them to keep the cookies and juice. I'll bring my own healthy snacks. Thanks for sharing.

no the snacks are for the sugar.

uconnwinsnc

I never knew that. That's the reason why they offer cookies and juice afterwards. They are trying to replenish the calories lost. Interesting. Next time I'll tell them to keep the cookies and juice. I'll bring my own healthy snacks. Thanks for sharing.

The snacks are so you don't pass out randomly. You really should eat the cookies and juice.

MoreBean13

I never knew that. That's the reason why they offer cookies and juice afterwards. They are trying to replenish the calories lost. Interesting. Next time I'll tell them to keep the cookies and juice. I'll bring my own healthy snacks. Thanks for sharing.

The snacks are so you don't pass out randomly. You really should eat the cookies and juice.

Agreed. The snacks are because donating causes some people's blood sugar to drop low enough that they pass out, so you drink some juice and you're fine. When blood is removed, it takes a full 8 weeks to completely replenish the bood cells and plasma you lost, and the 630 calories come from the energy it takes to make the new cells, so even though you lose the blood all in one day you make the calories up over a long time.

usmcmp

Donating blood burns approx 630 calories per session! I donate regularly but now I realize I should definitely try and do it more often!!

Saving 3 lives AND you get to eat more that day? Everyone wins!! :happy:

Actually it's more like 350. You don't BURN that much, that's how much extra energy your body needs to rebuild the lost blood over the next 5 weeks. Logging it as a calorie burn is stretching the truth.

Gwen_B

Don't tell people that, they will start logging it as exercise!!