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Adding calories for donating blood?

smashley_mashley
smashley_mashley Posts: 589 Member
edited February 27 in Food and Nutrition
should you add calories to your daily goal if you donate blood and do not exercise? and if so how many calories should you add?

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  • RangerRN507
    RangerRN507 Posts: 124 Member
    probably not..your body can actually lose a lot of blood (about 2 quarts) before it seriously becomes an issue so the relatively small amount they take wont be enough to effect you too much. just eat a granola bar or something afterwords and forget about it
  • MissBabyJane
    MissBabyJane Posts: 538 Member
    I don't think so. Just eat something and don't worry about it.
  • brevislux
    brevislux Posts: 1,093 Member
    No.
  • Synchronicity
    Synchronicity Posts: 82 Member
    Donating blood doesn't burn much in the way of calories- you sit passively by while they bleed you. Regenerating the blood that you loss does take some energy, but it's spread out over 30+ days (the time it takes for a stem cell to become a red blood cell), give-or-take, and will not significantly alter your calorie expenditure one way or the other.
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