What is the Blood Type Diet
Peter D'Adamo is a natural health practitioner who wrote about the blood type diet in a book entitled "Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type".
In this book he talks about the blood type diet and discusses that the ABO blood type is the most important factor in determining a person's ideal diet.
What is involved in the blood type diet? The diet proposes that food lectins react differently with the different blood types, some creating antigens that cause a reaction as if to an invader or allergen.
With this in mind, you are advised to avoid some foods and to consume more of some foods according to your blood type A,B,O or AB.
Group A is called the Cultivator which means eating more vegetables and very little red meat.
This would suit a vegetarian.
Group B is called the Nomad, which includes most foods that contain dairy.
It is not recommended that the other groups eat dairy products.
Group O, called the Hunter, is claimed to be the oldest blood type, and it is recommended that one should eat a diet high in protein.
Group AB is the Enigma and is the intermediate between A and B.
Because of the action of the lectins there is a long list of foods which should and should not be eaten for each blood type.
Does the blood type diet really work? It has been reported that the diet has a 70% success rate in terms of improved health conditions and/or weight loss.
Keep in mind that these results do not come from independent research so may be biased.
There is no analysis of results coming from people who have tried the diet or who have read his book and there do not appear to be any structured trials.
It may be that good results reported are because the diet happens to suit those people or they may be more conscious of what they eat.
Avoiding certain foods helps them to lose weight and regain health for what ever reason.
90% of people will be in the A, O and AB groups where dairy products are not recommended.
Many processed foods contain milk in some form, including milk solids, lactose and whey.
Weight loss can result by avoiding dairy products which cut out a lot of the fat, junk food and fast food.
Does this actually have anything to do with blood type? Are there any negatives associated with the blood type diet? Because of the lack of structured research to back up his ideas, D'Adamo has been heavily criticized.
All independent research says there is no link between blood type and diet.
Medical scientists consider that lectins in food do not act in the way that extracted lectins might act and do not set off a hostile reaction with antigens or antibodies in food.
No link has been found between blood type and allergies either.
If you decide you might be interested in this diet, you have to be prepared to work with the complexity of this diet.
It will not suit everyone and, as with any diet, it is recommended that you are recommended discuss this with your doctor before making any changes.
In this book he talks about the blood type diet and discusses that the ABO blood type is the most important factor in determining a person's ideal diet.
What is involved in the blood type diet? The diet proposes that food lectins react differently with the different blood types, some creating antigens that cause a reaction as if to an invader or allergen.
With this in mind, you are advised to avoid some foods and to consume more of some foods according to your blood type A,B,O or AB.
Group A is called the Cultivator which means eating more vegetables and very little red meat.
This would suit a vegetarian.
Group B is called the Nomad, which includes most foods that contain dairy.
It is not recommended that the other groups eat dairy products.
Group O, called the Hunter, is claimed to be the oldest blood type, and it is recommended that one should eat a diet high in protein.
Group AB is the Enigma and is the intermediate between A and B.
Because of the action of the lectins there is a long list of foods which should and should not be eaten for each blood type.
Does the blood type diet really work? It has been reported that the diet has a 70% success rate in terms of improved health conditions and/or weight loss.
Keep in mind that these results do not come from independent research so may be biased.
There is no analysis of results coming from people who have tried the diet or who have read his book and there do not appear to be any structured trials.
It may be that good results reported are because the diet happens to suit those people or they may be more conscious of what they eat.
Avoiding certain foods helps them to lose weight and regain health for what ever reason.
90% of people will be in the A, O and AB groups where dairy products are not recommended.
Many processed foods contain milk in some form, including milk solids, lactose and whey.
Weight loss can result by avoiding dairy products which cut out a lot of the fat, junk food and fast food.
Does this actually have anything to do with blood type? Are there any negatives associated with the blood type diet? Because of the lack of structured research to back up his ideas, D'Adamo has been heavily criticized.
All independent research says there is no link between blood type and diet.
Medical scientists consider that lectins in food do not act in the way that extracted lectins might act and do not set off a hostile reaction with antigens or antibodies in food.
No link has been found between blood type and allergies either.
If you decide you might be interested in this diet, you have to be prepared to work with the complexity of this diet.
It will not suit everyone and, as with any diet, it is recommended that you are recommended discuss this with your doctor before making any changes.
