Benefits of donating blood if you are big enough

[Glenda]

You must weigh at least 110 to donate blood.  But they always give you treats and it doesn't hurt.  They give you a little mini health check up  that can reveal potential health problems for you.  A donation can reduce harmful iron stores and other metals that  build up in our  bodies which can lower your risk of a heart attack.  It can help your liver.  It can save lives.  There are about 6 different ways to give blood but the most common is whole blood.  They always gave me juice, cookies or once even a tote bag. LOL

Once they asked what I weighed and I rounded my 108 off to 110 pounds not knowing 110 is the cut-off point.  It is miserable, especially in winter to give blood if you are too small.  It is too much  of a % of the amount of blood you have.  I  didn't know.  It was an accident.  I'm bigger now.

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[WilsonFitbit · Accepted solution]

Hi @Glenda. Nice to see you around! 

Wow, this is a great input and thanks for sharing this with us! 😊 I was investigating and I noticed that blood donation won't become a weight loss fad any time soon. However, researchers have found that you can lose up to 650 calories per pint of blood donated. 

See you around.

[chrissy30]

Fitbit should let you have more calories after you give blood

[Glenda]

Maybe I should have mentioned..........When I had cancer, they didn't want me to donate,  maybe  because of the chemo-therapy .  I don't even remember a conversation about it.   Probably no one reading this has cancer????   I was cured of colon cancer.

[WilsonFitbit]

@chrissy30, @Glenda Nice to see you around! 

@chrissy30 Thank you very much for your suggestion and feedback. @Glenda I also appreciate your information and I'm very happy to hear that you were cured of cancer! 

See you around.