"drink 2-4 litres of water" beforehand Kirsty (T). So you're only giving them cordial, when what they're after is Kirsty Concentrate? Argh! Me squeamish! Pass the airline chunder bag. Never meant to get that deep into this topic. To paraphrase Carly Simon: "You're so vein, you probably thought that post was about you". The People. The Experience. The Vision. The Hyperbole. The Spin. Cheers, Michael E. Granat "Qualified Good Tech Writer Dude" Fellowship of the Ring of Technical Writers, Yeah Baby! T/as Write Ideas E-mail: mailto:writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/> Without Prejudice. E&OE. -----Original Message----- From: Kirsty.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Kirsty.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 30 August 2004 16:25 To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: Off Topic. Dark chocolate 'helps blood flow' As far as giving blood goes, I've learnt the hard and painful way that on= e=20 of the best things you can do is to drink 2-4 litres of water in the 24=20 hours before the donation.=20 Between that and a bit of "readjusting" by a little muscle manipulation=20 man, turned me from not being able to give my full 400mL (or so), to bein= g=20 able to do so, and in 10 minutes, not 15!=20 Chocolate hasn't had any effect on my donations ... but I guess I don't=20 eat dark chocolate.=20 KT Kirsty Taylor=20 Editor=20 kirsty.taylor@xxxxxxxxxx Mincom. The People. The Experience. The Vision.=20 <snip> ###################################################################### Attention:=20 The information in this electronic mail is privileged and confidential, intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, copying or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it immediately from your system and inform us via e-mail : ops@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal=20 ###################################################################### ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************