eating for your blood type
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Type A= no meat. No thank you.
No meat? Native Americans were only type A before settlers arrived. The 'no meat' thing wouldn't have worked out very well for hunters and fishermen, lol.0 -
Type A= no meat. No thank you.
This ^^^0 -
there's no scientific basis in it. just eat at a calorie deficit and you'll lose weight.
blood groups come from having specific antigens on the red blood cells. That doesn't change how the body processes food. It doesn't correlate with any actual factors that affect how the body processes foods (e.g. tendency towards diabetes). I'd be interested in which blood type they say should eat dairy, because only people who are descended from traditionally dairy farming/herding populations can digest lactose. I'm not aware of any correlation between blood group and whether someone's ancestors were dairy farmer/herders or not. If there is then it's due to genetic drift and nothing to do with actual blood type. I'd imagine that there are huge numbers of people who, according to the blood type diet should eat dairy products, yet have not inherited the ability to digest lactose.
Not all lactose intolerance is the same. There are actually three different types:
1)Primary lactase deficiency – this is the most common form. If you have this it is simply because you are not the descendant of cattle herders.
2)Secondary, acquired, or transient lactase deficiency – in this case, you may be a descendant of a cattle herder but your ability to secrete lactase has been hampered due to a small intestine injury – possibly caused by acute gastroenteritis, diarrhea, chemotherapy, intestinal parasites or other environmental causes.
3)Congenital lactase deficiency – is rare. It is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder that prevents lactase production from birth which prevents babies from digesting breast milk. It is most common in Finland.
So technically if you breastfed without any problems, your relatives have a history of drinking milk, and you haven’t suffered from any severe intestinal injury then you should be capable of digesting dairy products. But many people aren’t. And many others become less tolerant as they get older.0 -
I read the book. It did nothing for weight loss, it did, however convince me to start drinking coffee in my thirties and for that I am forever grateful! (Aka addicted and I love it!)0
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Hey, I'm only new to MFP really but I read through and felt the need to respond. I would have seriously had my doubts myself if I had not chosen to focus on a plan to eat for Blood type myself. I didn't do this to specifically loose weight. My partner has gained 2 Kidney transplants in his life and may not get a third. We discovered our blood type is the same and we may be compatible meaning that I may be lucky enough to have him in my life longer.
Oddly 6 months ago, we both got sick and decided we didn't feel like eating meat anymore which is not like me at all. While doing that we chose to take a look at following guidelines for eating for our Blood type and connected with Asian friends who are knowledgeable with cooking to keep your blood healthy and Chinese medicine.
3 weeks ago my partner went into the hospital to see his specialist, the doctor was shocked at his results. My partners first problems occurred when he was 11years old and had his first transplant at 13. His doctor said to him "My gosh I don't know what you are doing but your bloods have never looked this great...Keep doing exactly what you are doing!".
I don't know if you are looking at this for health or to slim down and I didn't use a book just researched online and received help from my friends. We know we still have a lot of weight to loose but have been loosing slowly. We didn't do this to loose weight though. Now that I have recipes regularly in our daily diet, I'm focusing on loosing weight by cal count and fitness.
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It's not so bad 0 -
Where's the damn 'like' button when you need it lol 0 -
just for the record, it is NOT my plan to use this system to lose weight, i will still be using calorie tracking to that end, I am talking about cutting out a few items, like dairy, and red meat, on a short term basis. I have recently been noticing that for myself, I have been getting sick more than usual the last little while, and the main idea that I am working on from this dietary regiment is to strengthen my immune system. we don't eat a lot of processed stuff in my household anyway, so no big deal on that score. the main thing will be the dairy, and red meat since they are connected to processes within the body to weaken immune response. I am a born and raised meat-n-potatoes guy, but am becoming more and more aware of how the htings I eat affect my health. I will keep posting to this thread about my progress(or lack thereof) while I am following the system, and you can either follow it, or not, whatever. Everyone of us needs to find our own path, and the foods that work best for us. Maybe I am currently eating in a way that isn't what is best for me, maybe not, but without checking, i'll never know, and for 12 weeks, it can't hurt.......not like supersize me!
just an afterthought for all the people who are claiming "no scientific support" anecdotal evidence of results from a practicing naturopath is a starting point....the accumulation of more data can happen when there is enough anecdotal evidence to support a FUNDED scientific inquiry. Some of the most important discoveries humans have ever made started out as the casual observations of someone in the field, and were met with skepticism in the early going.....just sayin
The story of the naturopath was just for entertainment, I thought it was amusing but that is not what I based the "no scientific support" on. I have actually read various breakdowns how inaccurate some of the science behind the blood types is (as someone mentioned about Native Americans and type A blood)
If you want to do it, go ahead, but why ask if you don't want to hear opinions.
All in all, none of the diets are particularly bad ones. I suspect that many people would benefit from eating any of them if switchng from your SAD. I dont' believe that benefit has to do with blood type.0 -
People eat processed food and live to be a hundred- the ones who maintain a normal weight, that is.
If processed foods were bad for you, the FDA would get rid of the bad ones quickly.
Don't we wish. It's past time to get rid of nitrates.0 -
Type A= no meat. No thank you.
No meat? Native Americans were only type A before settlers arrived. The 'no meat' thing wouldn't have worked out very well for hunters and fishermen, lol.
Source? Just asking because I thought it was Type O and I'm curious. PubMed says O, though.0 -
Source on the WIki gives (copy/paste from footnotes):Type A= no meat. No thank you.
No meat? Native Americans were only type A before settlers arrived. The 'no meat' thing wouldn't have worked out very well for hunters and fishermen, lol.
Source? Just asking because I thought it was Type O and I'm curious. PubMed says O, though.
Saitou, Naruya; Yamamoto, Fumi-ichiro (1997). "Evolution of Primate ABO Blood Group Genes and Their Homologous Genes"
Molecular Biology and Evolution 14 (4): 399–411. PMID 91003700 -
People eat processed food and live to be a hundred- the ones who maintain a normal weight, that is.
If processed foods were bad for you, the FDA would get rid of the bad ones quickly.
Seriously? The FDA doesn't give a **** about us. They care about money.0 -
I'll follow just because I'm interested in hat your results are. However, as a side note, if you are get to g sick from dairy, I'd urge you to look into food intolerance. The only way I found out I was soy and dairy intolerant was to do elimination diets to find the source of my headaches. These elimination diets were done years apart, so first I found out first dairy gives me migraines and then found out soy makes me feel nauseous and run down.just for the record, it is NOT my plan to use this system to lose weight, i will still be using calorie tracking to that end, I am talking about cutting out a few items, like dairy, and red meat, on a short term basis. I have recently been noticing that for myself, I have been getting sick more than usual the last little while, and the main idea that I am working on from this dietary regiment is to strengthen my immune system. we don't eat a lot of processed stuff in my household anyway, so no big deal on that score. the main thing will be the dairy, and red meat since they are connected to processes within the body to weaken immune response. I am a born and raised meat-n-potatoes guy, but am becoming more and more aware of how the htings I eat affect my health. I will keep posting to this thread about my progress(or lack thereof) while I am following the system, and you can either follow it, or not, whatever. Everyone of us needs to find our own path, and the foods that work best for us. Maybe I am currently eating in a way that isn't what is best for me, maybe not, but without checking, i'll never know, and for 12 weeks, it can't hurt.......not like supersize me!
just an afterthought for all the people who are claiming "no scientific support" anecdotal evidence of results from a practicing naturopath is a starting point....the accumulation of more data can happen when there is enough anecdotal evidence to support a FUNDED scientific inquiry. Some of the most important discoveries humans have ever made started out as the casual observations of someone in the field, and were met with skepticism in the early going.....just sayin0 -
How funny. I am Type A and happened to grow up eating like this without knowing about this diet. I was so strong, felt awesome, and looked dynamite. Then I got married. Making two types of meals became a PITA. So here I am on MFP to lose weight and bring sexy back. I miss the first 30 years of being so healthy!!
I am type A and have almost never eaten meat and have drastically reduced dairy and eggs for a year now. For the first three months of meat free eating, my successful weight loss (from eating under TDEE) stalled, perhaps because I had to ajust to a new way of eating and I struggled to meet my macros.0 -
I'll follow just because I'm interested in hat your results are. However, as a side note, if you are get to g sick from dairy, I'd urge you to look into food intolerance. The only way I found out I was soy and dairy intolerant was to do elimination diets to find the source of my headaches. These elimination diets were done years apart, so first I found out first dairy gives me migraines and then found out soy makes me feel nauseous and run down.just for the record, it is NOT my plan to use this system to lose weight, i will still be using calorie tracking to that end, I am talking about cutting out a few items, like dairy, and red meat, on a short term basis. I have recently been noticing that for myself, I have been getting sick more than usual the last little while, and the main idea that I am working on from this dietary regiment is to strengthen my immune system. we don't eat a lot of processed stuff in my household anyway, so no big deal on that score. the main thing will be the dairy, and red meat since they are connected to processes within the body to weaken immune response. I am a born and raised meat-n-potatoes guy, but am becoming more and more aware of how the htings I eat affect my health. I will keep posting to this thread about my progress(or lack thereof) while I am following the system, and you can either follow it, or not, whatever. Everyone of us needs to find our own path, and the foods that work best for us. Maybe I am currently eating in a way that isn't what is best for me, maybe not, but without checking, i'll never know, and for 12 weeks, it can't hurt.......not like supersize me!
just an afterthought for all the people who are claiming "no scientific support" anecdotal evidence of results from a practicing naturopath is a starting point....the accumulation of more data can happen when there is enough anecdotal evidence to support a FUNDED scientific inquiry. Some of the most important discoveries humans have ever made started out as the casual observations of someone in the field, and were met with skepticism in the early going.....just sayin
Elimination was how my wife found out she has a gluten intolerance. But if you do this, only cut out one food group at a time otherwise you will eliminate an unnecessary food group. Its fairly rare to have a meat intolerance. If anything is the issue it would be lactose.
Tw, my wife's family and my family (Irish/English) are meat and potatoes eaters and many lived in their upper 90's. So it cant be too bad.0 -
Type A= no meat. No thank you.
No meat? Native Americans were only type A before settlers arrived. The 'no meat' thing wouldn't have worked out very well for hunters and fishermen, lol.
Source? Just asking because I thought it was Type O and I'm curious. PubMed says O, though.
My knowledge is from so many years ago, lol. Now everyone and their mother has a quote on it But maybe the pre-Columbian South Americans were different than North Americans. I was certainly thinking of NA NAs My mom's blood family is still all type A (me, too). 0 -
Blood type diets lack supporting evidence: a systematic review from the American journal of clinical nutrition.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2013/05/22/ajcn.113.058693.abstract
Also
http://www.skepdic.com/bloodtypediet.html
http://www.earthsave.org/health/bloodtyp.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/30/us-blood-type-diets-idUSBRE94T0XD201305300 -
Type A= no meat. No thank you.
No meat? Native Americans were only type A before settlers arrived. The 'no meat' thing wouldn't have worked out very well for hunters and fishermen, lol.
Source? Just asking because I thought it was Type O and I'm curious. PubMed says O, though.
My knowledge is from so many years ago, lol. Now everyone and their mother has a quote on it But maybe the pre-Columbian South Americans were different than North Americans. I was certainly thinking of NA NAs My mom's blood family is still all type A (me, too).
Actually something just came out the other day saying the North American and South American are different groups separated by thousands of years, so that makes sense.
I know I heard that the other day, but I can't find a source for it at the moment, sorry.0 -
Agreed!!!0
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This thread would have been titles "eat for your hair type," "eat for your pet type," or "eat for your porn type" and the results would be same: ridiculous. Except for that last one...and you know who you are...:bigsmile:0
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I haven't gone full vampire yet, but when I do I'll be sure to check this book out. Hopefully it'll give tips on how to find the right blood type for me 0
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My mother does this diet. She HAS lost weight, mostly because she's not "allowed" to eat most types of food. Also, she used to be REALLY fat; now she's just fat.
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My mother does this diet. She HAS lost weight, mostly because she's not "allowed" to eat most types of food. Also, she used to be REALLY fat; now she's just fat.
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Agreed!!!
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