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How to Eat Right for Your Blood Type?

The ‘Eat Right for Your Type’ blood group diet is a food regimen designed for optimum health, avoiding diseases and for addressing many existing medical conditions that may be present in an individual. Although it can be used very effectively as part of a weight loss program this isn’t its principal objective.

The system has been developed by a naturopathic doctor, Dr Peter D’Adamo whose life’s work on blood type analysis followed on from the work of his father, also a naturopathic physician.

Explaining the Evolution of Blood Types

Our blood is not only essential to life but holds the genetic fingerprint of our evolution. Humans have four main blood groups – type O, A, B and AB but this wasn’t always the case. Earliest man, the hunter-gatherer meat eater, who existed over 50,000 years ago, had only one blood type which was blood type O.

Blood type A was next to emerge, somewhere in Asia or the Middle East, around 20,000 BC, in response to the move by humans towards animal domestication and crop growing. Their diet changed dramatically as a result.

Humans evolved to carry the new, blood type B around 12,000 BC, possibly in response to climatic changes.

Blood type AB emerged very recently in terms of human evolution – it is only 12 centuries old.

Dr D’Adamo discovered, while continuing the work of his father, who had noticed a link between patients blood types and their responses to different diets, that certain patients with specific blood types were more likely to develop certain diseases and illnesses. Dr D’Adamo’s breakthrough came when he discovered that most of his patients who suffered from stomach cancer, a condition linked to low levels of stomach acid, were blood type A.

Blood Group Diet – Eating Right for Your Blood Type

Our blood type reflects our internal chemistry, our ability to absorb nutrients and how we process what we eat and drink.

The blood type diet which involves eating the right foods for your blood type, looks at the bodily responses in different blood types to the various foods we consume as a way to optimum health and disease avoidance. Each blood group is given a list of foods which are either ‘highly beneficial’, ‘neutral’ or ‘ to avoid’. It explains in detail why certain foods will provoke negative internal responses and what they are.

Blood Type Diet for Weight Loss

For many years before the work of Dr D’Adamo, doctors had been baffled as to why some people lost weight on certain types of diet while others didn’t. The blood type diet offers an explanation to this scientific mystery and has allowed many people since to lose weight effectively while maintaining optimum health and energy levels.

Each blood type is given food lists that encourage weight gain and weight loss. In some cases these are surprising such as kidney beans and sweetcorn for some-one who is blood type O. Both these foods will either inhibit calorie utilization or interfere with metabolism and will mean weight gain.

Blood Group Diet – Personal Testimony

Many years ago I suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which had been brought under control through the administrations of a homoeopathic doctor and magnet therapy. I was working as a professional sports coach at the time and the remnants of my CFS would still sometimes cause me problems. I heard about the blood type diet through a colleague and as part of my professional work entailed nutrition for optimum sports performance I thought I’d check it out.

My first dip into Dr D’Adamo’s book left me speechless. For years I had avoided certain foods, many of them seemingly healthy, knowing that my body seemed to respond badly to them either through stomach upsets, digestive problems, headaches and so forth. When I looked at my blood type profile every single one of the foods I had identified to avoid were listed. I was so amazed by what I learned that I decided to follow the diet as an experiment. I am blood type A, evolved from the first agriculturists and as a result my regimen was a mainly vegetarian diet.

I followed it rigidly for six weeks. Not only did the last remnants of my CFS fall away but I suddenly felt like I had the energy and vigour of a twenty year old again. I was mentally sharper, happier, fitter and healthier than I had been in many years.

I decided after several months that I would use the diet as a basic food regimen but not stick as rigidly to it as I had before. There is no doubt that it had an adverse affect on my health by doing so. I now revert to the diet rigidly for a few weeks every few months for what I think of as a detox.

I have explained the basis of the blood type diet since to anyone who would listen to me and my ‘Eat Right 4 Your Type’ book is something of a bible to me.

Dr D’Adamo stresses that his system is not intended to take the place of conventional medicine for treating diseases but rather to work in conjunction with it for the best possible prognosis and highest levels of good health.

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Blood type O food list

This article on how to eat right for your blood type has been written by expert author ‘Deneice Arthurton‘.