Blood Type Diet- Is it for real or is it more diet hokum?

WitPhillips

One of my friends claims to have had success on the Blood Type Diet.

Does anyone know of any nutrition research (positive or negative) related to this?

Alatariel75

Total hokum. If your friend is successful, it is because the restrictions are making her/him eat at a deficit.

Panda_brat

Alatariel75 wrote: »

Total hokum. If your friend is successful, it is because the restrictions are making her/him eat at a deficit.

This

3dogsrunning

I have told this story here before. I was at a conference a few years back. One of the guest speakers was a naturaopathy doctor. She told the story of how she found this diet, it made so much sense, so she tried it out. Her blood type told her to eat a vegetarian type diet, avoid red meat, etc. She followed it and felt amazing. Her skin glowed, she dropped weight, people complimented her.
Then during a conversation with her mother, she learned she was mistaken about her blood type. She was supposed to be eating the opposite diet, high in meat, etc.

Expatmommy79

3dogsrunning wrote: »

I have told this story here before. I was at a conference a few years back. One of the guest speakers was a naturaopathy doctor. She told the story of how she found this diet, it made so much sense, so she tried it out. Her blood type told her to eat a vegetarian type diet, avoid red meat, etc. She followed it and felt amazing. Her skin glowed, she dropped weight, people complimented her.
Then during a conversation with her mother, she learned she was mistaken about her blood type. She was supposed to be eating the opposite diet, high in meat, etc.

That's hilarious.

But in a related note. I knew a vegan who was chronically loosing weight and ended up in hospital. His wife was a woo nutritionist and put him on blood group diet. He ended up eating meat again and put back on weight from under weight to normal bmi.

rankinsect

I should make the AD&D diet. You roll D100 and consult the wandering food table to determine what food you will encounter for dinner.

msf74

WitPhillips wrote: »

One of my friends claims to have had success on the Blood Type Diet.

Does anyone know of any nutrition research (positive or negative) related to this?

Bunkum:

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Khovde07

rankinsect wrote: »

I should make the AD&D diet. You roll D100 and consult the wandering food table to determine what food you will encounter for dinner.

Love this!

DaddieCat

rankinsect wrote: »

I should make the AD&D diet. You roll D100 and consult the wandering food table to determine what food you will encounter for dinner.

This is amazing and would probably make a million dollars if you could get the rights away from Hasbro.

ninerbuff

Unless you're a vampire, it's bunk.

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Wetcoaster

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0060582/

CONCLUSIONS: No evidence currently exists to validate the purported health benefits of blood type diets. To validate these claims, studies are required that compare the health outcomes between participants adhering to a particular blood type diet (experimental group) and participants continuing a standard diet (control group) within a particular blood type population



http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/2012/11/18/what-is-the-“blood-type-diet”/

The bottom line is that there is no evidence for these silly meanderings and confusing people with such nonsense will not put them on the path for proper nutrition.


http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0084749

In summary, the present study is the first to test the validity of the ‘Blood-Type’ diet and we showed that adherence to certain diets is associated with some favorable cardiometabolic disease risk profiles. This may explain anecdotal evidence supporting these diets, which are generally prudent diets that reflect healthy eating habits. However, the findings showed that the observed associations were independent of ABO blood group and, therefore, the findings do not support the ‘Blood-Type’ diet hypothesis.

HorrorGeekLiz

Mine told me to eat vegetarian. I never felt worse in my life. I was exhausted, irritable, and generally miserable. And I wasn't a junk food veg either - I was following Eat to Live. It's just ridiculous. There are clearly biological differences - some people thrive on Eat to Live, whereas I felt like garbage, for example - but blood type isn't the determining factor.

dubird

My mom and I did that in college, on one of her rounds of losing weight. My dad was also needing to lose weight, so they used that as a guide. He's supposed to eat mostly vegetables, and she's supposed to eat mostly meats. So it's amusing to me that when my dad's on a vegetable-high diet, he loses weight better; and when my mom is on a meat-high diet, she loses weight better. Now I know it's not due to 'blood type', but rather that they lose weight differently, but it did validate it for me for a while.

lemurcat12

I think it's hokum, of course, but I had to look mine up anyway (much like reading a horoscope), and apparently I am supposed to eat like someone riding across the steppes, or as I like to think of it, as if I were a Dothraki. Also, for some reason, chicken, buckwheat, and corn are super bad for me.

harrybananas

Lol the amounts of new diet options are awesome.

kami3006

rankinsect wrote: »

I should make the AD&D diet. You roll D100 and consult the wandering food table to determine what food you will encounter for dinner.

My husband and I have rolled percentile to determine what to eat. Gamers to the end!

And, yes, the diet is BS.

stealthq

I had to look mine up, too.

Evidently I'm supposed to be a vegetarian and as "pure fresh and organic" as possible because I have a "sensitive immune system". Hmm. Mine's so sensitive I get sick once every couple of years for a day or two at a time.

While my diet definitely could use some tweaking (too heavy on the dessert-y and snack-y foods lately), I think I'll just substitute out some of those for more of what I would normally eat at meals and be fine.

zcb94

That explains a lot!
My blood type (O+) can digest protein and fat, but doesn't respond well to excess stomach acid, and will fatten up if they eat grain. We need to relax by working off stress. That's me to a T!

senecarr

rankinsect wrote: »

I should make the AD&D diet. You roll D100 and consult the wandering food table to determine what food you will encounter for dinner.

You'll need at least a few tables to cover diet level experience and cooking (environment) type or else you'll get this:

SueSueDio

rankinsect wrote: »

I should make the AD&D diet. You roll D100 and consult the wandering food table to determine what food you will encounter for dinner.

Heroes' Feast on a roll of 100?

azulvioleta6

It is old and has been pretty thoroughly disproved.

By the way, the diet for my blood time was exactly how I ate when I was gaining weight...

icemaiden37

I'm not following any eating plan that tells me I shouldn't eat bacon. Nobody needs that kind of negativity in their life.

DanyellMcGinnis

zcb94 wrote: »

That explains a lot!
My blood type (O+) can digest protein and fat, but doesn't respond well to excess stomach acid, and will fatten up if they eat grain. We need to relax by working off stress. That's me to a T!

That's my blood type (as far as I know, since it is both of my parents' type). But, I have been a vegetarian for 22+ years and eat a lot of (whole) grain. In that time, I have gained and lost weight several times. Always eating pretty much the same foods, just in higher amounts during the gains and lower amounts during the losses. My parents are not vegetarians (lots of protein and fat there) and are both overweight. The only thing that is even remotely true for all of us is that we all have stomach acid issues. Which are probably more related to weight than to blood type. So I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day, but it is wrong a lot more often...

AnvilHead

DanyellMcGinnis wrote: »

zcb94 wrote: »

That explains a lot!
My blood type (O+) can digest protein and fat, but doesn't respond well to excess stomach acid, and will fatten up if they eat grain. We need to relax by working off stress. That's me to a T!

That's my blood type (as far as I know, since it is both of my parents' type). But, I have been a vegetarian for 22+ years and eat a lot of (whole) grain. In that time, I have gained and lost weight several times. Always eating pretty much the same foods, just in higher amounts during the gains and lower amounts during the losses. My parents are not vegetarians (lots of protein and fat there) and are both overweight. The only thing that is even remotely true for all of us is that we all have stomach acid issues. Which are probably more related to weight than to blood type. So I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day, but it is wrong a lot more often...

The "blood type diet" is akin to horoscopes or fortune cookies. Make some generalized, easily attributable statements and some people will find it believable enough to buy into it.

auddii

rankinsect wrote: »

I should make the AD&D diet. You roll D100 and consult the wandering food table to determine what food you will encounter for dinner.

Every time I roll a D100, it just rolls off the table. Can I roll 2d10 instead?

DaddieCat

auddii wrote: »

rankinsect wrote: »

I should make the AD&D diet. You roll D100 and consult the wandering food table to determine what food you will encounter for dinner.

Every time I roll a D100, it just rolls off the table. Can I roll 2d10 instead?

I gave up on the d100 and just use percentiles. Same thing.

dulcitonia

Speak of horoscopes reminded me of this on an almanac app. I love it ...100%accurate for everyone 365 days a year:
The stars and planets positions will not affect your life in any way.

SueSueDio

Nice!


The Revised Blood Type Diet:

Do you have blood? Yes? Then you need to eat food.

vikinglander

The Type O+ (Me) diet is so close to Paleo, it works for most people who will do well on Paleo anyway. If you avoid pork and avocados, etc., who cares? There's so much else to eat! I'm doing Paleo and avoiding nitrites, so missing most bacon is fine. Try nitrite/nitrate-free BEEF bacon...a real treat!

And as wetcoaster has said, most studies I've ever read are inconclusive and indicate that further clinical trials are needed to substantiate claimed benefits. That doesn't mean there is no validity, it just means that clinical studies are required.

snikkins

vikinglander wrote: »

The Type O+ (Me) diet is so close to Paleo, it works for most people who will do well on Paleo anyway. If you avoid pork and avocados, etc., who cares? There's so much else to eat! I'm doing Paleo and avoiding nitrites, so missing most bacon is fine. Try nitrite/nitrate-free BEEF bacon...a real treat!

And as wetcoaster has said, most studies I've ever read are inconclusive and indicate that further clinical trials are needed to substantiate claimed benefits.

Avocados are one of the greatest foods on the planet, and there's really no reason to avoid them (unless you're crazy and don't like them ).

That's the point.

lemurcat12

There's no reason to think it has any validity, lots of reasons to believe it does not, and it advises people to avoid foods and exercise that might be beneficial to them. For example, as a Type B, running and intense aerobic activity -- which I really enjoy -- is not supposed to be good for me. And my food restrictions include: corn, wheat, buckwheat, lentils, tomatoes, peanuts, sesame seeds, and, especially, chicken because "[c]hicken contains a Blood Type B agglutinating lectin in its muscle tissue. Although chicken is a lean meat, the issue is the power of an agglutinating lectin attacking your bloodstream and the potential for it to lead to strokes and immune disorders."

Since I'm not paleo, I quite like wheat and corn and legumes, enjoy tomatoes (especially in a salad or in a pasta sauce), and I eat a lot of chicken. To follow this advice for basically no reason would be absurd.

Plus, the whole Type B description is some weird fantasy of some warrior of the steppes or, as I like to think, a Dothraki. Kind of cool (and I actually quite like lamb and don't mind goat, which are the meats I am supposed to eat instead of chicken, probably while sipping on fermented mare's milk), but not actually relevant to my lifestyle, despite my Type B blood that supposedly makes me long to go ride and pillage.