We can alter our bloods by what we eat. If we have high blood cholesterol it can be lessened by adding some kelp to your diet for example. ( see yesterdays post on Seaweeds ).

We can alter our bloods but we cannot change its type.

Whoever we are, we will live with the same blood type that we were born with until we die. Even if a body requires at some stage a blood transfusion the transfused blood needs to be of the type you originally had or it just won’t do.

I have been under the belief since I was a child that my blood belongs to the rarest blood group but, as I am unsure of this I am keen to find out when my donors card comes through the post in a few weeks time. I was finally allowed to give blood for the first time in 6 years this week. I have tried frequently but when I have attended any donor sessions it has either been too soon after a tattoo or too soon after returning from travels, the last being Vietnam, so a years gap was needed before any chance of my blood being taken. I asked if they could confirm my blood group for me & was told a card with your blood type is sent to you after about 4 weeks so I will find out then if my childhood memory serves me well.

Today is the first day of The Olympic Games in Beijing and that reminded me of something I was told by a friend a few years ago but I had not checked this out until tonight but it does seem wholly viable to be fact. I was told that if you were AB- and you were travelling to China ( when I was told this they meant not nowadays but in the past ) you needed to take a bag of your own blood with you as there was no AB- in the country.

Remebering this tonight I have looked online and found chart showing the most common and the rarest blood types in different countries around the world. To view the chart go to http://the-red-thread.net/blood.html

Below is a fantastic post that I read on the above site.

Posted Monday, Mar. 18, 1985

There is no coat of arms on the flask, but somewhere in one of Britain’s hospitals a convalescent patient has some of the world’s most exclusive blood flowing through his or her veins. The regal donor of the precious stuff was Prince Charles, 36, who has become the first member of the royal family ever to give blood, in his case, O Rh-negative. The unprecedented puncturing of royalty was to reassure Britons after a nationwide scare about AIDS caused a drop in donations. At the North London Transfusion Center, the Prince was asked whether he was homosexual, injected drugs into his veins or had had sex with anyone in those two groups. After those regulation indignities (and his negative answers), he had an apprehensive question of his own: “Is it going to hurt?” When the pint was finally drawn, Charles pretended to apologize because his blood was not blue: “I’m afraid it’s red like anyone else’s.” Fancy that.