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How many calories, fat, whatever does someone have to consume to replace a single donation of blood? A pint of blood weighs about a pound. Does that mean that the donor would need to consume an extra ~3500 calories to replace it? Or is it more complicated than that?

by /u/maybe-tomorrow in /r/askscience

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