I'm sick and tired of it...

2Cute2Bobese

LIVE RIGHT FOR YOUR BLOOD TYPE *Dr. Peter J.D'Adamo*...I'm going to try this for 3 months as a Type 0 Negative individual...if it decreases my inflammation and chronic food sensitivities than this will be my lifestyle eating journey! This book claims to be the individualized prescription for maximizing health, metabolism and vitality in every stage of my life! It gives you a plan of what to eat and not to eat, vitamins to take, exercises and much more! In present situation, I have sciatica and a pinch nerve, I'm overweight and I have inflammation basically from top to bottom. Got my lab work back today and everything was good except my CRP *inflammation markers* and my A1C which is 6.8 and it should be under 5.6. So I've decided that I'm going strong... #ImReady2LiveWithoutPain #StayTunedStayPosted

yirara

sorry to say, but this is complete whoo. Why do you think your blood type has an influence on what food you should eat? Animals also have blood groups. Does that mean in order to be healthy they should eat according to their blood group, like as little meat as possible, no grains, etc?

Diatonic12

@yirara Is 100% correct. It's just a bunch of hippy dippy imaginary happy horsesheet. If things like this actually worked we would all conduct this food protocol and people wouldn't have to suffer with delicate health conditions.
Doctors' offices would be closing left and right.

angelexperiment

My suggestion is to try an anti inflammatory diet! It helped me a lot

AnnPT77

If you're overweight, lose weight. Eat more nutritious foods, especially veggies, fruits, whole grains and that sort of thing, things that will give you ample food-sourced micronutrients and fiber. Get some exercise. Manage your stress level. Get enough quality sleep.

For most people, doing those things (more or less in that priority order, IMO) will make the best contribution to reducing systemic inflammation and reducing A1C . . . no matter what blood type.

lgfrie

Basing your diet and weight loss plan on blood type is as ridiculous as it sounds. Save yourself some time and effot. Start counting your calories, hit a precise calorie target as MFP provides you, get some exercise. Voila, you will lose weight. Nothing else required.

Butterfly_Ninja3

I tried this a few years back and honestly it is such a scam in my personal opinion. I didn't lose much and when I went back to counting calories and exercising I lost more. I mean if you want to try it, by all means do it and see if it works for you.... but for me personally it didn't and the more I researched it, the more I realized I bought into the hype of the book/author.

snowflake954

What they all said^^^^^^^^^^^. You'll just be wasting time. If you really want to change things, ditch the glitzzy book, plug your stats into MFP, get your daily calorie goal, stay within it everyday, get a digital food scale, and start weighing and measuring everything you eat and drink. It really works, but doesn't sell books........

sarah12277

I tried this many years ago when it was first coming out. I thought I was Type A at the time. Many of the suggestions are a bit generalized. I did lose weight as I was switching high calorie foods (french fries) to low calorie foods (soup). They offered a lot of high fiber suggestions so wasn't all bad. But I agree with the others that there's no real science to back it up. Many years after this time period I found out I actually was Type O, which is almost a total opposite of the plan for A. I also had identified different intolerances that were in the majority of the plan.

Certainly you can try it to see if it helps but basic calorie goal and some exercise would help with it just as much from what I saw.

yirara

Those with type O blood should choose high-protein foods and eat lots of meat, vegetables, fish, and fruit but limit grains, beans, and legumes. To lose weight, seafood, kelp, red meat, broccoli, spinach, and olive oil are best; wheat, corn, and dairy are to be avoided.

So if you're a type O and happen to be vegetarian you're basically *kitten*. Well, I suppose you could still eat fake meat to get your high protein diet, but... hmm..

girlwithcurls2

My MIL gave me this book for my birthday a zillion years ago. Thank goodness it sounded like hooey at the time and I shelved it. Later, she gave me a book about menopause for my 40th. I'm rapidly approaching 53 and still no menopause. Glad I shelved that one too...