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

Alatariel75 wrote: »

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

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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.

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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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.

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.

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.

Lol the amounts of new diet options are awesome.

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.

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...