Giving Back by Giving Blood

Donating blood presents the opportunity to save three lives. It is best that the person giving blood maintains a healthy and well-balanced diet. This healthy and well-balanced diet must be infused with many iron rich food. Iron rich foods provide the needed boost to give blood. Saving lives and benefiting the community are the satisfaction to donating blood. Anyone who gives receives a free t shirt that has the Commit for Life slogan. The fast simple process of donating blood gives people opportunity to continue on with their planned schedule. There is a screening process to check the iron levels of potential donors. Females are encouraged to have iron rich foods more often because iron levels in females are less than males.

As medical technology continues to advance, there is still no real substitute for blood. This reasoning makes it very important to donate blood when given the chance. In a medical emergency, often the most important element is the availability of blood. Donating provides essential units of blood that helps save lives across the many states when people are in need. About one pint of blood is drawn from each donor and this procedure generally takes about five to ten minutes. It takes about one month for the blood that was donated to be replaced. The entire donation process takes roughly about an hour.

There are four main types of blood which are A, B, O, and AB. Together they are known as the ABO Blood Group System. According to the American Red Cross:

“Red blood cells carry markers called antigens on their surface that determines a person’s blood type. Group A has only the A antigen on red cells and B antibody in the plasma. Group B has only the B antigen on red cells and A antibody in the plasma. Group AB h...

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...od drive is a non-profit organization that people greatly benefit from. If we did not have the Regional Blood Drive the hospitals would not have enough blood to supply all the cancer patients, all of the people that recently got into an accident, and the people that are going into or had surgery. Houston is currently going through a blood shortage and without the blood drive many lives will be lost. Our burger basket will greatly benefit the people in need of blood because the amount of people donating will increase. The reason it will benefit is because the burgers will boost up iron levels. The main reason so many people that sign up to give blood and get turned down to donate is because of low iron levels. A burger with one hundred percent real beef and a whole wheat or white bread bun will surely boost peoples iron level. Each person that donates saves 3 lives.