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blood supply

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SEPT / OCT 2015

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Healthcare Journal of baton rouge  

encourage donors to come in a few times a

year tomaintain a healthy blood supply for

the Baton Rouge community.

“A lot of times people don’t think it’s

important to donate blood until you know

someone that needs blood or you need blood

yourself, and then you realize the urgency

to do it,” said Tommie Langlois, donor

resources coordinator for LifeShare Baton

Rouge. “But the bottom line is, if someone

doesn’t make the time, it won’t be there for

any of us. You have to make the time.”

How Standalone and Hospital-based

Blood Donor Centers Differ

Blood donors have the option of donat-

ing at hospital-based centers, such as Our

Lady of the Lake’s Blood Donor Center, or

blood goes only to patients at that hospital.

While that is often true, it is not always the

case, as the Blood Donor Center at Our Lady

of the Lake provides blood for many facil-

ities throughout the region outside of the

hospital itself. Still, standalone blood cen-

ters tend to be immediately recognized as

the “community’s blood centers,”whichmay

be more attractive to some donors.

A lot of times people don’t think it’s

important to donate blood until you

know someone that needs blood or you

need blood yourself, and then

you realize the urgency to do it.”

standalone blood centers, such as LifeShare

or United Blood Services. While the donat-

ing procedures are generally the same, the

two types of centers do differ in other ways.

Hospital-based blood centers workmore

directly with hospitals and their patients, so

these centers may have a better chance of

their blood being used. Blood centers in

hospitals also have a better opportunity to

encourage family and friends of patients

who have recently needed blood to donate

blood to replace the blood used by their

loved one. It can also be more financially

viable for a hospital to have its own blood

center than to have to buy those products

from a third party.

Adrawback for hospital-based blood cen-

ters, however, is that donors may assume the

Mitzi Breaux

Tommie Langlois

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Hay

Thankfully the Hay Diet does not involve

eating hay, but rather is named for William

Hay who introduces the notion of avoiding

“foods that fight”—combinations that cause

imbalance in our bodies.

Masticate

On the advice of British PM William

Gladstone, Horace Fletcher suggests that

chewing each bite of food a minimum of 32 times

can aid digestion and weight loss, especially if

you spit the food out before swallowing.

Every Bit Counts

Perhaps the first

to suggest counting calories, Los Angeles

physician Lulu Hunt Peters also holds

“Watch Your Weight Anti-Kaiser” classes

for wartime food conservation.

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