What's your though on the Blood Type Diet
r0ot5
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Hi all,
I had an appointment with a coach and he explained me the blood type died techniques by Dr D'adamo. I'm so skeptical about it, I've been using mft since February 2016 and already lost a total of 130 pounds. Not sure I want to restrict the food I eat based on my blood type.
http://www.dadamo.com
Thanks,
Marc
I had an appointment with a coach and he explained me the blood type died techniques by Dr D'adamo. I'm so skeptical about it, I've been using mft since February 2016 and already lost a total of 130 pounds. Not sure I want to restrict the food I eat based on my blood type.
http://www.dadamo.com
Thanks,
Marc
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Keep being sceptical
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Be skeptical indeed. It's thoroughly debunked. And don't trust people who call themselves a coach, the use that title because they don't have legitimate title to call themselves.
you've lost 130lbs. That is AMAZING. You do not need some unscientific, ridiculous diet. Keep on keepin' on.27 -
Hi all,
I had an appointment <junk removed> I'm so skeptical about it, I've been using mft since February 2016 and already lost a total of 130 pounds. Not sure I want to restrict the food I eat <junk removed>
Thanks,
Marc
Fixed some things for you.
Other than the fact that your rate of loss may be (verging on) too fast, especially as you're at/have approached a more normal weight, why the heck would you want to *kitten* around with what has been working?
And if you are starting to have compliance issues because of your steep deficit... you may want to adjust your rate of loss now that you don't have as much fat available to lose...7 -
It's a joke. It says I'm supposed to eat like a vegetarian/vegan (no meats, no potatoes WAT). Those are fine ways to eat, but I'm not ethically, morally, or plain ol' inclined to remove half the foods I eat just because my blood type is A.6
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Just a device to separate the naïve from their money.What's your thought on the Blood Type Diet11 -
Just a device to separate the naïve from their money.What's your thought on the Blood Type Diet
It's more than that. Anytime it has come up, beyond restricting what you eat for an asinine reason, the calorie limit is stupidly low. in the 800 cal range. It's *kitten* dangerous.
Any coach who suggests it should be walked away from.7 -
Common sense applied - well done!
There is no scientific basis to this. This is a marketing plan based upon the ignorance of the general population. Yes you will lose weight, but due to a caloric deficit, not the meaningless differences in personal blood type.3 -
I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/4 -
I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/
I am annoyed that some researcher thought assigning diets by blood type was potentially valid enough to spend time and money testing the hypothesis. Or maybe there's a real need for ABO diet debunking in Canada?2 -
I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/
I am annoyed that some researcher thought assigning diets by blood type was potentially valid enough to spend time and money testing the hypothesis. Or maybe there's a real need for ABO diet debunking in Canada?
I think valid research that debunks pseudoscience fad diets is in the public interest, much better than some of the money thrown at climate change research (i"m all for valid climate research but much has been wasted). Grad students need something to work on.3 -
I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/
I am annoyed that some researcher thought assigning diets by blood type was potentially valid enough to spend time and money testing the hypothesis. Or maybe there's a real need for ABO diet debunking in Canada?
I think valid research that debunks pseudoscience fad diets is in the public interest, much better than some of the money thrown at climate change research (i"m all for valid climate research but much has been wasted). Grad students need something to work on.
Much gets wasted in all subjects, sadly.
Serious question. Do you think this is something that would get picked up by media outlets so people realize there's evidence the diet doesn't work as advertised?
Personally, I don't think so but I'm cynical about media outlets in general and therefore biased.1 -
I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/
I am annoyed that some researcher thought assigning diets by blood type was potentially valid enough to spend time and money testing the hypothesis. Or maybe there's a real need for ABO diet debunking in Canada?
I think valid research that debunks pseudoscience fad diets is in the public interest, much better than some of the money thrown at climate change research (i"m all for valid climate research but much has been wasted). Grad students need something to work on.
Much gets wasted in all subjects, sadly.
Serious question. Do you think this is something that would get picked up by media outlets so people realize there's evidence the diet doesn't work as advertised?
Personally, I don't think so but I'm cynical about media outlets in general and therefore biased.
I doubt the media would pick up a specific diet unless there were deaths or some other juicy scandal to grab eyeballs. These diets are restrictive but don't look dangerious1 -
Do you know what blood type is? It's the antigen(s) (or lack of) present on your red blood cells. That's it, how this has ANY relevance to diet is beyond me. There's absolutely no evidence to support this bizarre theory and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda and is trying to SELL you something.
Source: common sense, basic understanding of human A&P...7 -
Back slowly away from this "coach", keeping an eye on your wallet at all times. Then just keep doing what you're doing!2
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Save yourself some time and money, cancel your next appointment with that quack (if you have one). You've been tremendously successful and could probably teach HIM a thing or two.1
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Blood type diets are 99.94% crap by atomic weight.2
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All fad diets r the same to the point of creating a caloric deficit as long as u have this then technically u should loose wt.1
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Blood type diet is total bogus - a number of people here have eaten according to their blood type only to find that really they were mistaken on their bloodtype Yet they felt great on "their"bloottype diet - just search the boards - it becomes highly entertaining at times.
The only thing it does is change your eating habits If then you are in a deficit you loose weight. In the end it comes down to CICO.
Now note some people do have medical issues that can and sometimes can be addressed by diet - Bloodtype ain't one of them2 -
I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/
I am annoyed that some researcher thought assigning diets by blood type was potentially valid enough to spend time and money testing the hypothesis. Or maybe there's a real need for ABO diet debunking in Canada?
I think valid research that debunks pseudoscience fad diets is in the public interest, much better than some of the money thrown at climate change research (i"m all for valid climate research but much has been wasted). Grad students need something to work on.
Sometimes I worry about the potential effect of legitimizing the obviously ridiculous by ever giving it a stage next to real science because then the purveyors of that which is clearly hokum will use the fact that they got a seat at the table, a place in the debate with real scientists, or an actual study commissioned as a wedge to try and say that what they're doing is anything other than fantasy.
It's a double-edged sword in many cases. If you don't refute them (and spend time and money and effort to let them on the stage so you can) they scream that science is afraid of them. If you do, they claim they got their place on the stage because they're "real science" too.2 -
heiliskrimsli wrote: »I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/
I am annoyed that some researcher thought assigning diets by blood type was potentially valid enough to spend time and money testing the hypothesis. Or maybe there's a real need for ABO diet debunking in Canada?
I think valid research that debunks pseudoscience fad diets is in the public interest, much better than some of the money thrown at climate change research (i"m all for valid climate research but much has been wasted). Grad students need something to work on.
Sometimes I worry about the potential effect of legitimizing the obviously ridiculous by ever giving it a stage next to real science because then the purveyors of that which is clearly hokum will use the fact that they got a seat at the table, a place in the debate with real scientists, or an actual study commissioned as a wedge to try and say that what they're doing is anything other than fantasy.
It's a double-edged sword in many cases. If you don't refute them (and spend time and money and effort to let them on the stage so you can) they scream that science is afraid of them. If you do, they claim they got their place on the stage because they're "real science" too.
This.
Plus, when you put forward a hypothesis for testing, it is supposed to have some basis. Either a pilot study was done that showed some trends worth validating, or your hypothesis is consistent with known mechanisms, something. It shouldn't be a complete WAG (wild *kitten* guess).
If you submit such a thing for funding, the grant review agency (or perhaps in this case the Primary Investigator) should step in and say, "Not a chance. Try again."
I'm teaching a grad student now. She passed her prelims this past year, which includes writing and defending a mock grant proposal for her intended thesis work. If I'd let her pursue a hypothesis that makes as little sense as this, she'd have failed miserably and I'd have been in for it as well.0 -
heiliskrimsli wrote: »I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/
I am annoyed that some researcher thought assigning diets by blood type was potentially valid enough to spend time and money testing the hypothesis. Or maybe there's a real need for ABO diet debunking in Canada?
I think valid research that debunks pseudoscience fad diets is in the public interest, much better than some of the money thrown at climate change research (i"m all for valid climate research but much has been wasted). Grad students need something to work on.
Sometimes I worry about the potential effect of legitimizing the obviously ridiculous by ever giving it a stage next to real science because then the purveyors of that which is clearly hokum will use the fact that they got a seat at the table, a place in the debate with real scientists, or an actual study commissioned as a wedge to try and say that what they're doing is anything other than fantasy.
It's a double-edged sword in many cases. If you don't refute them (and spend time and money and effort to let them on the stage so you can) they scream that science is afraid of them. If you do, they claim they got their place on the stage because they're "real science" too.
And if, like homeopathy, many studies are done and none of them show any positive outcomes, they'll just say "research isn't yet conclusive" and more should be done.0 -
Might as well eat for your hair color, OP.
Come to think of it there's probably a fad diet for that.1 -
heiliskrimsli wrote: »I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/
I am annoyed that some researcher thought assigning diets by blood type was potentially valid enough to spend time and money testing the hypothesis. Or maybe there's a real need for ABO diet debunking in Canada?
I think valid research that debunks pseudoscience fad diets is in the public interest, much better than some of the money thrown at climate change research (i"m all for valid climate research but much has been wasted). Grad students need something to work on.
Sometimes I worry about the potential effect of legitimizing the obviously ridiculous by ever giving it a stage next to real science because then the purveyors of that which is clearly hokum will use the fact that they got a seat at the table, a place in the debate with real scientists, or an actual study commissioned as a wedge to try and say that what they're doing is anything other than fantasy.
It's a double-edged sword in many cases. If you don't refute them (and spend time and money and effort to let them on the stage so you can) they scream that science is afraid of them. If you do, they claim they got their place on the stage because they're "real science" too.
This.
Plus, when you put forward a hypothesis for testing, it is supposed to have some basis. Either a pilot study was done that showed some trends worth validating, or your hypothesis is consistent with known mechanisms, something. It shouldn't be a complete WAG (wild *kitten* guess).
If you submit such a thing for funding, the grant review agency (or perhaps in this case the Primary Investigator) should step in and say, "Not a chance. Try again."
I'm teaching a grad student now. She passed her prelims this past year, which includes writing and defending a mock grant proposal for her intended thesis work. If I'd let her pursue a hypothesis that makes as little sense as this, she'd have failed miserably and I'd have been in for it as well.
Don't even get me started on how these woo postulations completely screw up the entire basis of testing - falsifiability and the null hypothesis - and then pat themselves on the back for being OMG SO SMRT.ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »I found a research report that showed each version of diet was effective as a diet, but there was no special connection to your blood type. It's just a fad approach that may help one psychologically in restricting their calories in.
edit: found the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893150/
I am annoyed that some researcher thought assigning diets by blood type was potentially valid enough to spend time and money testing the hypothesis. Or maybe there's a real need for ABO diet debunking in Canada?
I think valid research that debunks pseudoscience fad diets is in the public interest, much better than some of the money thrown at climate change research (i"m all for valid climate research but much has been wasted). Grad students need something to work on.
Sometimes I worry about the potential effect of legitimizing the obviously ridiculous by ever giving it a stage next to real science because then the purveyors of that which is clearly hokum will use the fact that they got a seat at the table, a place in the debate with real scientists, or an actual study commissioned as a wedge to try and say that what they're doing is anything other than fantasy.
It's a double-edged sword in many cases. If you don't refute them (and spend time and money and effort to let them on the stage so you can) they scream that science is afraid of them. If you do, they claim they got their place on the stage because they're "real science" too.
And if, like homeopathy, many studies are done and none of them show any positive outcomes, they'll just say "research isn't yet conclusive" and more should be done.
They also suppose that any positive outcome is related to the treatment, which when it comes to actual homeopathic "remedies" are literally water.1 -
It seems like the magic feather diet. Eat a balanced diet with fewer calories, and carry your magic feather at all times. Bam - the weight melts right off.dutchandkiwi wrote: »Blood type diet is total bogus - a number of people here have eaten according to their blood type only to find that really they were mistaken on their bloodtype Yet they felt great on "their"bloottype diet - just search the boards - it becomes highly entertaining at times.
The only thing it does is change your eating habits If then you are in a deficit you loose weight. In the end it comes down to CICO.
Now note some people do have medical issues that can and sometimes can be addressed by diet - Bloodtype ain't one of them
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicFeather3 -
It seems like the magic feather diet. Eat a balanced diet with fewer calories, and carry your magic feather at all times. Bam - the weight melts right off.dutchandkiwi wrote: »Blood type diet is total bogus - a number of people here have eaten according to their blood type only to find that really they were mistaken on their bloodtype Yet they felt great on "their"bloottype diet - just search the boards - it becomes highly entertaining at times.
The only thing it does is change your eating habits If then you are in a deficit you loose weight. In the end it comes down to CICO.
Now note some people do have medical issues that can and sometimes can be addressed by diet - Bloodtype ain't one of them
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicFeather
Awesome. And it reminded me of this, from the late, great Brunching Shuttlecocks:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/135747
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It seems like the magic feather diet. Eat a balanced diet with fewer calories, and carry your magic feather at all times. Bam - the weight melts right off.dutchandkiwi wrote: »Blood type diet is total bogus - a number of people here have eaten according to their blood type only to find that really they were mistaken on their bloodtype Yet they felt great on "their"bloottype diet - just search the boards - it becomes highly entertaining at times.
The only thing it does is change your eating habits If then you are in a deficit you loose weight. In the end it comes down to CICO.
Now note some people do have medical issues that can and sometimes can be addressed by diet - Bloodtype ain't one of them
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicFeather
It is indeed very very similar
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@r0ot5 I'm curious what your coach had to say, or it if went any further.0
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Dr. Oz has interviewed this guy, that alone tells me everything I need to know. 5
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ConquerAndBloom wrote: »Dr. Oz has interviewed this guy, that alone tells me everything I need to know.
Dr. Oz is supposedly a very good cardiac surgeon, but he is not a scientist and knows very little about anything else medical.
Surgeons are kind of like mechanics, in that they can fix all kind of stuff that's wrong with your insides by opening you up and manipulating the parts around, but they are definitely not automotive engineers.3
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