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Can you develop anaemia from not eating for a day?
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NO: It takes much longer than 1 day of fasting to become anemic. Red blood cells live 120 dats, so you'd have to be without the nutrients for over a month before it would start having a significant impact. About the only thing that makes you anemic in a day is massive acute blood loss, and I'd hope you'd know if that was happening!
Answered 3/7/2017
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