On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Ev Convert wrote:

> I went to the Red Cross website today, and apparently they give you  
> juice and cookies after you donate.  Is it important at all to eat  
> sugar after donating blood?


Of course not! Getting your blood sugar up, no matter how you do it,  
doesn't have much to do with blood volume. There's never any excuse,  
short of starving or insulin shock, to eat sugar. And even then,  
fruit would probably do it.

Blechhh!


ginny