blood type diet!

well this A is a meat eater...I love a veggie sub from subway...but I gots to eat my meat too...lol

I am type O, it says ,mostly meat. Also states type are usually more successful with low carb. I think it's true.

It's just a bunch of malarky. . . and I'm married a hunter so veg isn't happenin LOL

I looked into this years ago - but like just about every other diet that tells you to restrict foods, it was really hard to stick to so I gave it up pretty quickly. I found the theory an interesting read, but I think there are lots of holes in it.

Eating moderate portions of regular food and exercising regularly has worked like a charm for me this time - it's no sexy "diet" but it works!

My sister is obsessed with it, she follows it like a Bible. She's convinced the food that she's eliminated have helped her to feel better. She had digestive problems.

She convinced me to try it. I did. I'm type A...so the "no meat" route. It made me feel lousy and, sheesh, trying to plan meals around it would make my head spin!!! Not to mention that my husband is Type O, which makes him a meateater. Malarky, I tell ya!!!

I know folks who swear by this, but I think there are way too many more variables than just blood type to say its best to be a carnivore or vegetarian. I'm A+, was vegetarian for five years, and found it to be very easy. So, anecdotally (sp?) that would support the "Eat right for Your Type" theory. But I like meat and it's easier to get protein that way, and I haven't felt better or worse health-wise either way. Who knows. Maybe there's some validity to it. But I think taking only one thing like blood type into consideration is just too narrow a view.

This is how one of my physical anthropology professors explained why the blood type diet is nonsense. Essentially, blood type is something that we would have absolutely no knowledge of if we hadn't developed a test for it. It has had no impact on diet for our entire evolution because we didn't know about it. For that reason, diet has never been affected by blood type; it has never been a part of natural selection. People have eaten what is available and diets vary around the world for that reason, but you find the ABO blood types everywhere. Groups that share a common ancestry and environment eat the exact same thing but have different blood types. If blood type were important for diet, you would find A blood in vegetarians and B blood in groups that eat primarily meat (for example, not sure what exactly is supposed to go with what type).

Evolution works by selecting for things that promote survival and against things that diminish the likelihood of survival. Blood type is simply not one of those things. We aren't aware of it and it doesn't seem to play a large part in our survival or lives generally; it's only important now that we've invented blood transfusions. There's simply no reason to believe that we would have developed a strong correlation between blood type and diet without any pressures to do so.