Eat Right according to your blood type
By adeena2000
@adeena2000 (845)
Philippines
May 4, 2010 2:36am CST
Do you know that there is chemical reaction between the food you eat and your blood?
Not all good food can give beneficial to our body. There are foods that can harm and not allowed to our bloodstreams. Like me, I am blood type O, my diet profile should be HIGHLY PROTEIN, so I am allowed to eat meat, fish, vegetables and fruits. I am limited to eat grains, beans and legumes. There are foods that are recommended for weight loss. How about you, do you follow this diet? If not, are interested to try? Please share it here.
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5 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
4 May 10
The Blood Type Diet is a system advocated by Dr. Peter DÁdamo (and others). If you are interested, there is a table here that explains the basics: http://www.drlam.com/blood_type_diet/
Of course, as with nearly all diet systems, many people are out to make money by advocating this or that diet and most of them have very little proper scientific backing. The only saving grace is that most of them, while materially harming your bank balance, are likely not going to harm you physically ... though only a few will actually make you very much healthier.
Most of the value that people perceive in these diets comes from introducing some discipline and understanding into what you are eating and from the general belief that one will be healthier and happier by following whatever regimen one is paying for.
A good, fairly unbiased critique of Dr DÁdamo's theories can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_diet (OK, Wikipedia, as always may need to be taken with a pinch of salt ... and we all know how bad salt is!)
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
4 May 10
The most important thing about any diet is to learn to listen to your body. Most people don't do this and ignore what their body is telling them - all those little discomforts after a meal, for example, and sluggishness or sleepiness experienced after eating certain foods.
By learning to pay attention to what our bodies tell us (and also by knowing what foods make up a balanced diet), most of us would be able to find a diet that is right for us and will keep us in the best of health.
The really great thing about this, of course, is that the information is all FREE!
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@anuraa32 (2446)
• India
6 May 10
More than the diet itself, it seems the issues for criticism were the lack of clinical trials and the fact of the origins of blood groups. I didnt even think of the blood groups had evolved at different times in the period of history or man's evolution. But thanks for the links to both the sites.
@jd107nette (1454)
• Philippines
9 May 10
either way, thanks for the information... ^_^ yeah, it's great that the info is free.. haha...
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
8 May 10
well i think its a scam, there are so many intriguing stuff about his theory that really bugs me, o as hunter type , a the cultivator and such its weird.
how can one can say what people eat way way before. well it is true that blood type o is what most scientist believe to be the first but how can he correlate it with eating a lot of meat?
everybody is allowed to eat vegetables but he doensn't allow some vegetables too, isn't it a little bit cuckoo?
a balanced diet is the always correct one.
oh there are contradictions of what the doctor is saying in wikipedia too.
@adeena2000 (845)
• Philippines
8 May 10
It was being meant that meat is good for type O because if other will eat more meat, he is likely to develop a disease easily or acquired illness. There are some food that is toxic to our body and poisonous to our blood. I'd rather follow it. You can take a balance diet according to your blood type. It doesn't mean that if you are not type O, you can't eat a meat. Just a minimized amount or moderatey.
@anuraa32 (2446)
• India
6 May 10
I am O blood type too. SO I guess I am a part of the high protein diet. That would be great. I liked the part where they have given the foods recommended for weight loss.
I am on a weight loss program for myself. So this is such an apt information for me. Funnily, the place where I go for my nutrition advice, seemed to have adviced me on the same lines. Of increasing the proteins in my diet. But then I am not sure if they did it for my blood type. But yes the foods which are not if on weight loss, some of them I still eat. Like the cabbage and cauliflower which form a main part of my salads. Now that would be a problem. And I am also allowed to eat only red meat.
Well I think I need to read it more because from the items in the final column, we hardly get anything here.
@gaylevillariza (48)
• Philippines
7 May 10
i have a copy of this book..pdf file..anyone wants to have one?