Eating for blood type

Negative.

If you think about it logically, 38% of the population are O positive, meaning 38% of the population should be eating the same things to lose weight? Does that sound right to you?

No.

Caloric deficit = weight loss.

Do you honestly think with millions of years of human evolution that has enabled us to thrive in all manner of circumstances and conditions that we'd really need some specific food or diet as per our blood type?

BruinsGal_91 wrote: »

so just for sh!ts and giggles, I had a look at what blood group B should eat and avoid.

Apparently I shouldn't eat any shellfish (crab, shrimp, lobster, mussels, oysters, crayfish, clams, etc), cut out tomatoes, and avoid pasta. Bollocks to that. One of my favourite foods in the entire world, is a huge bowlful of cioppino served over linguine.

Think I'll stick with the shoe size diet.

I'm B too, and when I looked at it (for amusement only, and it's entirely possible that different pages on the blood type have different recommendations), it also said to avoid chicken and eat lots of goat and dairy. Avoid grains in general. I decided it was based on the presumed diet of people riding all day over the steppes and ending the day with some fermented mare's milk. I also decided it was probably the Dothraki diet.

Someone pointed out that the places where B is most common is in Asian countries with a high incidence of lactose intolerance, so this idea that B=should consume lots of dairy is weird. Of course, I love dairy and do well with it, but that's probably because most of my ancestry is from countries where dairy has been consumed for a long time, and in which type B is generally quite rare.

There is no human group that is 100% all the same blood type, and yet for much of history most members of a community ate pretty much the same thing most of the time. Blood type can't be the factor that controls what diet a cultural group is adapted to eat.

My blood type is AB also and when this first came out a couple of family members were pushing the diet not to lose weight but because according to the book I'm a fragile snowflake. I think there was something about the older blood types being more stable and AB being newer and less robust. From what I remember there were all kinds of restrictions on what I should eat because I'm prone to cancer and other fatal diseases, and since this was pre-internet times I didn't really have any resources to check it out. I was actually scared silly for about a week (young and dumb).

Then I started thinking about genetics. A from my mother, B from my father, random chance. Why on earth would my genetic dispositions be the same as any of the other millions of people who were AB by random chance? And is there any evidence of higher rates of mortality in populations that are primarily AB? I assumed if so it would show up in Scientific American eventually (it didn't).

It's interesting that my daughters re-discovered this one not too long ago - probably on social media. I guess it's popular because it divides people into easily visible groups, no "you may be half this and half that" like body-type diets, and we all like tidy categories. And for some reason, restrictive diets always seem to catch people's attention, as if finding just the right combination of food for our physical type is the magic bullet for weight loss and health.

zorander6 wrote: »

nutmegoreo wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

Eating for blood type is just as effective as eating for eye color, horoscope or shoe size.

I have blue eyes. What should I eat to lose weight? I like this idea. Please say it's ice cream, beer, and chocolate!

Nope, it's liver, spinach, and brussell sprouts.

:sick:

Aquarius: ice cream, beer, and chocolate?

janejellyroll wrote: »

According to the website I'm descended from Middle Eastern farmers (but my siblings with different blood types are descended from different people, I guess?). I'm supposed to eat lots of fish (which I haven't had for ten years) and avoid garbanzo beans and potatoes, which I eat all the time. I'm also supposed to avoid "negative emotions" and "smoking." I guess those are okay for people of other blood types, but they're not good for me.

This looks . . . ridiculous.

No pot for you :-( /jk

I hadn't considered that. I have 4 siblings and not one is AB. Hmmm, wondering about all the mailman jokes now...

BruinsGal_91 wrote: »

nutmegoreo wrote: »

zorander6 wrote: »

nutmegoreo wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

Eating for blood type is just as effective as eating for eye color, horoscope or shoe size.

I have blue eyes. What should I eat to lose weight? I like this idea. Please say it's ice cream, beer, and chocolate!

Nope, it's liver, spinach, and brussell sprouts.

:sick:

Aquarius: ice cream, beer, and chocolate?

It's just not your day is it? Sadly Aquarius is tapioca, cabbage, and snails.

I'm pretty certain Aries is ice-cream, beer, and chocolate.

You guize are so mean!

Shoe size 7.5: ice cream, chocolate, and beer?