Blood Type Diet?

jennajava · October 2011

Has anyone ever tried dieting for your blood type? Does it work? Does it make you "feel better?"

Ashleypeterson37 · October 2011

Bump.

mandyschalk · October 2011

I've herd lots about it, would be interested to know if there is in fact behind it.
Sorry not much help

fteale · October 2011

I have in as far as I can being vegetarian, and yes it does.

WeighAhead · October 2011

I go to a nutritionist and she actually mentioned that to me, but the way she described it is that it is something you might try after developing a balanced diet and good habits, not something you would do to lose weight.

heaverchell · October 2011

I have done it based on Body type but never heard of the Blood type.

engineman312 · October 2011

my blood type is A+. my dad says its the only A+ i've ever gotten in my life.

u2fergus · October 2011

I know somebody who follows it, but she follows it to help with her severe arthritis and some other physical problems. She was already pretty thin before she went on it. She said it really does seem to help control her symptoms, though.

doobabe · October 2011

I did it for about a month. I personally didnt feel better because I was literally starving myself to death. I am b- and I believe I couldnt have MOST grains (so no breads or pastas- unless it was spelt or rice- which was the big one that killed me. I literally had to make every single thing I put in my mouth from scratch and I hated every bit of it. Im vegetarian and work 50+ hours a week so there was no way I could get the nutrition I needed and follow the plan entirely. Plus it eliminated some really important nutrients for me, especially being vegetarian.

That being said- I DID lose weight. BUT, that was simply becasue I couldnt eat enough things to get over 800 calories in a day. A lot of people swear by it, though.

Its called eat right for your blood type for those interested.

akaChuck · October 2011

I googled some info about it and it's been categorized as a fad diet by numerous sites....

McKayMachina · October 2011

I'm skeptical. 200 years ago, no one had any idea what their blood type was and no one was obese. XD

jennajava · October 2011

my blood type is A+. my dad says its the only A+ i've ever gotten in my life.

me too! haha

jennajava · October 2011

I'm skeptical. 200 years ago, no one had any idea what their blood type was and no one was obese. XD

I was thinking exactly that

daniface · October 2011

I'm skeptical. 200 years ago, no one had any idea what their blood type was and no one was obese. XD

well actually after reading a little bit about the blood type diet it looks like it is based around the idea to tweak your behaviors towards eating like your ancestors ate 200 years ago, they weren’t fat and precisely why generally someone who followed the diet wouldn’t be either..someone with type O blood 200 years ago would instictivly know that they need more iodine in their diet than someone with type A blood we've lost this somewhere along the way. Iodine helps type O's with thyroid issues that they are notoriously predisposded to. It's actually pretty interesting, this is the first I’ve heard about this myself.

McKayMachina · October 2011

I'm skeptical. 200 years ago, no one had any idea what their blood type was and no one was obese. XD

well actually after reading a little bit about the blood type diet it looks like it is based around the idea to tweak your behaviors towards eating like your ancestors ate 200 years ago, they weren’t fat and precisely why generally someone who followed the diet wouldn’t be either..someone with type O blood 200 years ago would instictivly know that they need more iodine in their diet than someone with type A blood we've lost this somewhere along the way. Iodine helps type O's with thyroid issues that they are notoriously predisposed to. It's actually pretty interesting, this is the first I’ve heard about this myself.

I like that you looked into it. Thank you for sharing this.

While I don't follow a "blood type diet," I do celebrate the merits in eating pre-industrial+agricultural revolution style. Like debunking the dangerous myth propagated by the USDA to sell more product that grains are a requirement for healthy living. There is only one type of animal that does well on a grain-based diet and that's birds! Mammals are susceptible to toxins in grains that make us sick. It's evolutionarily smart on the part of the grains. It keeps mammals in the wild from consuming them. We're just kinda dumb. XD

Same with dairy. It's not a requirement by ANY means. In fact, most of the world is lactose intolerant to the point of violent sickness. I am mildly lactose intolerant so I limit my dairy but I looooove it so it stays. Milk, for example: as a species (rare exceptions omitted) no other ADULT MAMMAL on the planet consumes the mammary secretions of A DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ADULT MAMMAL. We stop drinking human breast milk as infants but consider it totally acceptable to chug a glass of cow's milk everyday. Its purpose is to fatten up calves to 900-lb. behemoths. Not sustain 150-lb. human beings!

Like I said, I love cheese, yogurt, buttermilk, etc. and will always eat it because of the taste. But we just have to think about what we're eating and why.

Don't let your parents' or grandparents' food dogma shape your choices.

At one point, doctors were prescribing cigarettes to cure diseases. Just a thought.

:drinker:

daniface · October 2011

I'm skeptical. 200 years ago, no one had any idea what their blood type was and no one was obese. XD

well actually after reading a little bit about the blood type diet it looks like it is based around the idea to tweak your behaviors towards eating like your ancestors ate 200 years ago, they weren’t fat and precisely why generally someone who followed the diet wouldn’t be either..someone with type O blood 200 years ago would instictivly know that they need more iodine in their diet than someone with type A blood we've lost this somewhere along the way. Iodine helps type O's with thyroid issues that they are notoriously predisposed to. It's actually pretty interesting, this is the first I’ve heard about this myself.

I like that you looked into it. Thank you for sharing this.

While I don't follow a "blood type diet," I do celebrate the merits in eating pre-industrial+agricultural revolution style. Like debunking the dangerous myth propagated by the USDA to sell more product that grains are a requirement for healthy living. There is only one type of animal that does well on a grain-based diet and that's birds! Mammals are susceptible to toxins in grains that make us sick. It's evolutionarily smart on the part of the grains. It keeps mammals in the wild from consuming them. We're just kinda dumb. XD

Same with dairy. It's not a requirement by ANY means. In fact, most of the world is lactose intolerant to the point of violent sickness. I am mildly lactose intolerant so I limit my dairy but I looooove it so it stays. Milk, for example: as a species (rare exceptions omitted) no other ADULT MAMMAL on the planet consumes the mammary secretions of A DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ADULT MAMMAL. We stop drinking human breast milk as infants but consider it totally acceptable to chug a glass of cow's milk everyday. Its purpose is to fatten up calves to 900-lb. behemoths. Not sustain 150-lb. human beings!

Like I said, I love cheese, yogurt, buttermilk, etc. and will always eat it because of the taste. But we just have to think about what we're eating and why.

Don't let your parents' or grandparents' food dogma shape your choices.

At one point, doctors were prescribing cigarettes to cure diseases. Just a thought.

:drinker:

i am tottally with you

_gwen · October 2011

my blood type is A+. my dad says its the only A+ i've ever gotten in my life.

+1

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