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Just when you’d thought you’d heard everything, something new comes along. The Blood Type diet is one of the newest weight loss plans to hit the diet circuit. Many believe that this diet is merely a gimmick and not based on sound scientific evidence.

The Blood Type diet was developed by a man named Peter D’Adamo. His book, Eat Right 4 Your Type, says the key to weight loss lies in a human’s genetic makeup – specifically their blood type. He believes that by eating foods that are based on blood type, people have a better chance of losing weight.

According to research done on blood typing, there are several distinct racial populations that can be defined by their blood groupings. Using that theory, the Blood Type diet was developed. There is no direct evidence or clinical research that proves that this diet is valid however. D’Adamo believes that each blood type group has its own food classification.

Here is a breakdown of how those classifications work in relation to blood type.

O Blood Type

People with blood type O are called “hunters.” This blood grouping is believed to be the one that all others developed from, according to the diet’s creator. Historically, hunters were very physical because they would wrestle wild beasts in search of food for the family. This type of activity required lots of meat. According to D’Adamo, those with the O blood type need to consume high amounts of meat in order to lose weight.

A Blood Type

People with blood type A are known as “cultivators.” Cultivators tilled the soil and planted crops. These people got most of their food from plant sources such as fruits and vegetables. For those with blood type A, avoiding meat as much as possible and sticking with vegetables will give you the protein your body requires.

B Blood Type

Those with type B blood are “nomadic.” Nomads are people who wondered around never settled in any one place. The harshness of their travels helped to keep them strong. Since they had eaten a variety of foods depending on where they stayed, their digestive systems tolerated different foods well. Again, according to this diet plan, this particular blood type group can eat dairy products with no problems.

AB Blood Type

The last blood grouping is AB. This group is classified as the “enigma.” Because this group is mad up of A and B blood components, they can presumably get by with eating plant sources of protein and dairy products. Their digestive systems are good and they can therefore consume a variety of foods.

One question, among many, that has arisen regarding the Blood Type diet is: How does it explain a lactose intolerant person with a blood type of B? There are too many loopholes for this diet to be one that someone could follow to lose weight anytime they needed to. Eating one food group only and eliminating others is a recipe for disaster because all food groups have merit for weight loss. The key to most successful weight loss is managing portions of foods from each food group.

In recent years it appears there is a rising epidemic of people suffering from chronic digestive and autoimmune conditions. Food intolerance or sensitivities may lie at the root of the problem. Most people, including doctors, have little clue how foods they eat may be contributing to their chronic illness, fatigue and digestive symptoms.

There are, however, a lot of clues in the medical literature and the lay public’s experience about how foods are causing and/or contributing to the current epidemic of chronic illness and autoimmune disease. There are several diets being used by many people with varying success to improve their health despite a general lack of iron clad scientific proof for their effectiveness. One of the clues to the cause and relief of food induced illness may lie in proteins known as lectins that are present in all foods.

Animal and plant sources of food both contain complex proteins known as lectins. These proteins typically have the ability to attach to sugars or carbohydrates on the surface of human cells. Some of these proteins can cause clumping of human red blood cells, a process that is called agglutination. The process of agglutination occurs when someone receives the wrong blood type during a blood transfusion. In fact, red blood cell agglutination specific to each person or groups of people is the basis for testing for blood types. There is some data that blood types may influence how people respond to certain foods though a blood type specific diet appears to have been disproven. The attachment or binding of certain food lectins can initiate a variety of cell specific effects. These reactions may mimic hormones or cause changes in cells. This is termed molecular mimicry.

Most plants contain lectins, some of which are toxic, inflammatory, or both. Many of these plant and dairy lectin are resistant to cooking and digestive enzymes. Grain lectins, for example, are quite resistant to human digestion but well suited for ruminants like cattle who have multi-chambered stomachs. Therefore, lectins are present in our food and are often resistant to our digestion and some have been scientifically shown to have significant GI toxicity in humans. Others have been shown to be beneficial and maybe even cancer protecting. Either way plant and animal proteins are foreign proteins to the body and are dealt with by digestion and our immune system in a positive or negative manner.

The human digestive system was created to handle a variety of plant and animal proteins through the process of digestion and elimination. Some plant and animal proteins or lectins are severely toxic to humans and cannot be eaten without causing death like those in Castor beans and some mushrooms. Other foods must be prepared before they are safe to be eaten. Preparations may include pealing, prolonged soaking and cooking like kidney beans. Other foods may be poorly tolerated because of a genetic predisposition or underlying pre-existing food allergy or intolerance. Others are tolerated to some degree or quantity but not in large amounts or on a frequent basis. People who are intolerant to the milk sugar lactose, because of inherited or acquired deficiency in lactase enzyme, may tolerate small amounts but may have severe bloating, gas, abdominal pain and cramps with explosive diarrhea when a large amount of lactose containing foods are eaten. Foods can become intolerable to some people after their immune system changes or gut is injured from another cause.

Of the food lectins, grain/cereal lectins; dairy lectins; and legume lectins (especially peanut lectin and soybean lectin) are the most common ones associated with reports of aggravation of inflammatory and digestive diseases in the body and improvement of those diseases and/or symptoms when avoided. Recent research by Loren Cordain PhD., has suggested that these lectins may effectively serve as a “Trojan horse” allowing intact or nearly intact foreign proteins to invade our natural gut defenses and enter behind the lines to cause damage well beyond the gut, commonly in joints, brain, and skin of affected individuals. Once damage occurs to the gut and the defense system is breached the result is what some refer to as a “leaky gut”. Moreover, many people who develop a “leaky gut” not only have gut symptoms such as bloating, gas, diarrhea, and abdominal pain but also other symptoms beyond the gut, or extra-intestinal symptoms. Commonly affected areas are the brain or peripheral nerves, skin, joints, and various body glands. With continued exposure of the gut by these toxic food lectins a persistent stimulation of the body’s defense mechanism in a dysfunctional manner, occurs, i.e. autoimmune disease.

Wrong types or levels of good and bad bacteria in the gut, or intestinal dysbiosis, may contribute to this process of abnormal stimulation of the immune system. Research supports the strong possibility that such stimulation may be accentuated by interaction of the bacteria with food lectins. It is believed by some that this may further worsen gut injury and autoimmune disease. This latter concept is gaining acceptance and recognition by doctors in one form as the hygiene theory. It is speculated that our gut bacteria have become altered by increased hygiene and over use of antibiotics and that this phenomenon may be playing a significant role in the rising incidence of autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, and chronic intestinal diseases like Crohn’s disease and irritable bowel syndrome.

Lectins as a cause however are largely being ignored in the U.S. though the field of lectinology and lectins role in disease is more accepted internationally. Avoidance of certain food lectins may be helpful in achieving health and healing of chronic gut injury. Healing of a “leaky gut” and avoidance of ongoing abnormal stimulation of the immune system by toxic food lectins and bacteria in the gut is the basis for ongoing research and probable success of several popular diets such as the paleo diet, carbohydrate specific diet and gluten-free/casein-free diet. More research is needed in this exciting but often neglected area. The Food Doc, LLC features a website www.thefooddoc.com that will provide physician authored information on food intolerance, sensitivity and allergy such as lectin, gluten, casein, and lactose intolerance with dietary guidance that will feature in the near future an online symptom assessment and diet-diary.

I started studying blood type and diet with Dr. James D’Adamo’s 30 year practice compilation “One Man’s Food… Is another Man’s Poison” in 1995. The information was fascinating: specific foods could have a beneficial, neutral, or negative effect on human health and functioning!

In 1997, Dr. Peter D’Adamo, son of Dr. James D’Adamo published “Eat Right 4 Your Type”. A patient bought me a copy as a gift and handed it to me with a look on his face like, “Hey Dr. Saks, I guess you were serious about the connection between blood type and diet!”

So here we are, many years later with so much more science, research and data on the connection between blood type and diet. The concept is really quite simple. The protein on your blood cells can have a beneficial, neutral or negative reaction to the chemical composition (protein structure) in food; thus, our health can greatly improve if our diet leans greatly toward our beneficial foods and we lean heavily away from our avoid foods. Incidentally, I stopped giving patients the avoid list years ago – so I could avoid “aw-man, you mean I can’t have…” reaction!

As a Naturopath, Chiropractor, and Health and Wellness Coach, I recommend each person have their blood type tested (can be easily done at home) or more specifically, get your type and your secretor status checked with one salivary evaluation. Solutions to many of your health issues, even the difficult ones, may lie less in the intake of vitamins, minerals, and supplements than in the creation of a personalized “Bio-Logikal Diet”. Doctors all over the country have started talking about the need for diets customized for specific individuals. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all health and wellness programs.

For a brief summary of the concept of Blood type and diet, see my article “Blood Type and Diet – Weight Loss and Optimal Health”.

I have found that blood typing alone can give me 80-85% accuracy with a clinical diet for a patient, WITHOUT having to use a food allergy test. Further, if we know the person’s blood type and secretor status, we can fine tune their diet to 90% or better as compared to food allergy testing. Food allergy testing can still be very useful, but it’s expensive and not absolute. This makes blood typing and secretor status testing a phenomenal clinic tool. In case you’re wondering, secretor status indicates whether a person secretes his/her blood type antigens into their mucous membranes (eyes, intestines, urine, etc.). About 80% of the U.S. population are “secretors”, while 20% are “non- secretors”. Secretor status can be very beneficial when recommending a therapeutic or wellness diet for my patients and clients.

I’ve heard from countless readers and clients that they suffer multiple food allergies and would appreciate any tips on dealing with them. This article goes beyond ingredient substitutions, offering ways to handle and potentially heal food allergies, intolerances and sensitivities. But first, some definitions:

A true food allergy involves a specific reaction in the immune system (that part of the body responsible for attacking invaders). An allergy occurs when the body mistakenly identifies a harmless substance (antigen) as a threat. The body then creates an antibody, damages cells, and causes a release of histamine. This process, rather than the antigen itself, causes harm. Symptoms of food allergy can include asthma, nasal congestion, digestive woes or, most seriously, anaphylactic shock. If you suffer a severe food allergy, lifelong avoidance might remain necessary.

More people suffer from food intolerances than true allergies. Intolerances can result in a wider variety of symptoms, including respiratory distress, depression, migraines, arthritis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), among others. Unlike food allergies, which usually result in immediate symptoms, intolerances can reveal themselves “subtly” even several weeks after ingesting a particular food. As with food allergies, intensities can range from temporary, mild discomfort from too much of a certain food, to celiac disease?a severely damaging intestinal intolerance to any and all glutens (the proteins found in wheat and other grains like barley, spelt and rye).

Food sensitivities can arise from chemical compounds like MSG, caffeine, sugar, or food additives. These substances act like drugs, with some people having lower thresholds than others. The line between food sensitivities and intolerances often blurs, though, since many food intolerances arise from reactions to chemicals like sulfites, nitrates, salicylates, or amines. In Eat Right 4 Your Type, Dr. Peter D’Adamo discusses food sensitivities in relation to blood types. He theorizes that certain components of food, called lectins, react negatively with particular blood types. According to his research, lectins introduced into an incompatible blood type can result in symptoms like abnormal cell growth (cancer), insulin issues, digestive irritation, heart disease, compromised immune system and rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. D’Adamo does not consider his observations “the only factor” in maintaining health but believes blood type can play a key role in determining how food affects us. On a side note, Dr. D’Adamo recommends a strict vegetarian diet for Blood Type A, which comprises about 40% of the world’s population, compared to the estimated .2-4% of the world currently classified as “vegan.”

Many people use the terms “allergy,” “intolerance,” and “sensitivity” interchangeably, and indeed, treatments and testing often overlap. The most common method of identifying food issues involves an Elimination Diet in which the patient removes all common or suspected allergens from the diet for a set period of time. If symptoms improve, the patient then reintroduces foods and records effects. This technique works fine if one or two main, common food allergens cause the symptoms; however, in the case of multiple triggers or intolerances (which can take weeks to manifest) the Elimination Diet can prove cumbersome and less effective. But there is still hope.

The following suggestions helped me overcome my own allergies, and I’ve seen them help many clients and friends as well:

“Go Raw” or take digestive enzymes. Each raw food carries its own enzymes necessary for digestion. When heat destroys these enzymes through cooking, our pancreas works overtime, creating “digestive enzymes” to break down food. (Humans have the largest pancreas relative to body weight in the entire animal kingdom.) If the pancreas becomes fatigued, inadequately digested food particles arrive in the intestines. From there, undigested protein molecules sometimes enter the blood stream and cause an immune response. Low stomach acid can also result in incomplete digestion, and some people find raw blended greens a natural means of improving hydrochloric acid levels. (For more information on green smoothies, read Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko.) Some foods have enzyme inhibitors and need to be soaked in order to activate their enzymes. A few actually digest easier when cooked. If you don’t like raw foods or have minimal access to them, digestive enzyme supplements taken right before meals can also reduce your pancreatic load until you get back on track.

Control Candida. Commonly known as “yeast,” Candida albicans exists in the digestive tracts of all humans. Antibiotics, birth control pills, stress, and sugar can result in Candida Overgrowth, causing Leaky Gut Syndrome, food intolerances/allergies, thrush, “yeast infections” and a host of other symptoms. Though difficult to eradicate, Candida does hate oil of oregano, pau d’arco, sugar restriction, and probiotics like L-acidophilus and B-bifidus. For more information, you can read The Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthrough by Dr. William G. Crook. From a Medical Intuitive perspective, I’ve also noticed Candida resonates with “victim.” As people empower themselves and curb feelings of victimization, Candida symptoms often dramatically improve.

Cleanse your Body. Even though vegan diets tend to be “cleaner” than the Standard American Diet, at times we can pass a threshold of toxic or allergenic overload. Maybe it’s hay fever season, we lived entirely on Tofutti last summer, have black mold in our home, or accidentally ate larvae on organic produce. Ewwww!!! Hey, sometimes it happens! A friend of mine always quotes Harry Potter’s Hagrid: “Better out than in!” Whether through a full parasite cleanse, a one-day-a-week fast, or gentle herbal support, food sensitivities implore us to lighten our load. Macrobiotic principles suggest people chew food well and detox with the seasons: Liver/Gall Bladder (Spring); Heart/Small intestines (Summer); Spleen-Pancreas/Stomach (Late Summer); Lungs/Large Intestine (Fall); Kidneys/Bladder (Winter). For more information on cleansing with the seasons, I recommend The Self-Healing Cookbook, by Kristina Turner.

Cleanse your Mind. Stress has been shown to lower the threshold for allergens, so take a few deep breaths and relax. Spend some quiet, reflective time each day. Ask yourself what stands in the way of your being able to eat the foods you like. What expectations, fears or judgments are limiting your naturally free and compassionate mind and heart? On the physical level, allergies and intolerances result from mistaken judgments-the body labels a neutral substance “bad” and launches an attack. The process, not the antigen, causes the problem. We accept the cliché, “You are what you eat” but rarely recognize that the inverse is true as well. We eat as we are. If we want to re-pattern our bodies to embrace the nourishment we offer them, then it helps to stop reacting in other areas of life. In my work, I’ve also found that people sometimes react to foods simply due to their association with an unpleasant event that no longer consciously registers. In such cases, food allergies offer an opportunity to heal the soul as well as the body.

Eat with Gratitude and Love. A little Mindfulness goes a long way in this fast-paced world of ours. Because gratitude and love are incompatible with fear, cultivating these states encourages our bodies to feel “friendlier” and less likely to overreact. Pausing before we eat also signals the body to transition to a more relaxed state, which optimizes digestion. In case words fail you, June Cotner’s Graces: Prayers and Poems for Everyday Meals and Special Occasions offers multi-cultural prayers, poems, songs, and invocations ranging from a Sanskrit sun salutation to Native American blessings, to inspirational words by Helen Keller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Whether a formal reading or a quick lift of the heart, expressing gratitude and love for our food reminds us of the reasons many of choose a vegan lifestyle.

Researchers in England dug up the bodies of people who had died from the 1665 London plague, and made the startling discovery that most of the people who died had type B blood, and that far fewer people have type B blood now than before the plague. Scientist now must explain why people
with Type B blood were more likely to die from plague.

When a germ gets into your system, you make a protein
called an antibody that attaches to it and kills it. Your body
is never supposed to make antibodies against itself. Your
immunity recognizes a germ by the sugar surfaces on cell
membranes. Type B surface membrane on red cells is the
same as the surface membrane of certain bacteria, including
Yersinia pestis, the flea-borne bacteria that caused the plague.
If you are type B, you cannot make antibodies against type B
surface of cells, because you would destroy all your red blood
cells. If yersinia gets into your bloodstream, your immunity does
not kill it, so it causes blisters and swollen lymph nodes, and
you can go into shock and die.

People in blood group A are at higher risk for heart
attacks than those in other groups because their blood is far
more likely to clot. They have higher blood levels of factor VIII,
which helps blood clot, and clots are the terminal factor that
blocks arteries to cause a heart attack. There are more than
300 known variations in blood types, and scientists are still
learning about their effects.

I believed that no two people on the face of the earth were alike; no two people have the same fingerprints, lip prints, or voice prints. No two blades of grass or snowflakes are alike. Because I felt that all people were different from one another, I did not think it was logical that they should eat the same foods. It became clear to me that since each person was housed in a special body with different strengths, weaknesses, and nutritional requirements, the only way to maintain health or cure illness was to accommodate to that particular patient’s specific needs.

James D’Adamo

I completely agree with this statement, alternatively said: one man’s food is another man’s poison.”

Your blood type is the key that unlocks the door to the mysteries of health, disease, longevity, physical vitality, and emotional strength.

Peter D’Adamo

I disagree with this statement. In my experience of using blood type to determine an individual’s personalised eating plan I have found it to be useful on a number of occasions, particularly with recommendations on what foods to avoid. However I believe that anyone who says that there is one single KEY that unlocks the door to health is very misled.

The key to health and vitality lies in a synergy which I have written about many times and combining it with an individualised approach. To recap the elements include the following:

· Supportive nutrition which basically means eating a diet composed mainly of whole foods, emphasising quality proteins, fibrous carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates, and good fats and oils and through awareness of your body’s reaction tailoring the amount of each to your own body – finding your metabolic type

· Need for muscle

· Cardio in moderation

· Plenty of water

· Adequate sleep

· Additionally and importantly the right mindset

So in the following article I will review the Blood Typing Diet.

Firstly to find out your blood type if you are not sure you could:

1. Consult your doctor
2. Give blood
3. Do a simple thumb prick test available at some chemists and health food stores or try the internet to pick up a test.

Science behind Blood typing
A single speck of blood contains the entire genetic code for a human being. This code was the product passed on through generations from our ancestors. The four blood types O, A, B and AB are named so because of their differing qualities in relation to the immune system.
Antigens are the chemical markers that determine your blood type. They form part of our chemical fingerprint by possessing a different antigen. Antigens are the body’s internal security system – so when your immune system finds a foreign intruder (e.g. a foreign antigen from bacteria) it checks with your blood type antigen to see if it is friend or foe.
Now in regards to the role that blood typing plays in diet: as I previously said it is more useful in knowing which foods to avoid rather than eat.
This is due to the presence of dietary lectins, which consist of protein and are found in around 30 percent of food. They can be inhibited through cooking and digestion to some degree however if they reach the blood stream they can appear like foreign antigens interfering with digestion and absorption. They can also result in nutrient deficiencies, food allergies, infertility, arthritis, diarrhoea, irritability, IBS, intestinal gas.

Positive aspects to the Blood type diet

The basis is biochemical individuality which has been extensively documented (I encourage you to read “Biochemical Individuality” by Roger J. Williams for a more comprehensive and scientific understanding). The science behind lectins is fascinating and has some truth in my opinion but it is still far from being an exact science.
Additionally, most of the diets (except AB) recommend reducing the amount of wheat. In my experience wheat is a problem to some degree for almost everyone. It has been overused especially in the form of processed carbohydrates like bread, pasta, and breakfast cereal abusing our digestive system. Leaving wheat out of the diet has in every case resulted in health improvements in my experience.
The recommendations consist of whole foods which is an improvement for people currently consuming a SAD (Standard American Diet), but which should be renamed to SWD (Standard World Diet) – as most of the world has come under the influence of excessive sugar, trans fatty acids (from fast food) and toxic food which are far from how nature intended them to be consumed.

Negative aspects to Blood type diet recommendation

However I disagree with many aspects regarding the blood typing diet including recommended foods, the fact that the diet remains set in stone and allows no shifts, and the advice for specific exercise regimes for specific blood types. These are outlined below:

1. Foods recommended I believe are not healthy

* Soy for one is heavily promoted especially for A types. I believe soy is not a health promoting food especially for males as it has been shown to affect sperm strength and number. Soy has also been linked to thyroid problems.
* Vegetable oils are another concern and have been linked to heart disease and many other conditions.

2. Set in stone

Blood types don’t change however certain medical conditions, environmental influences and stress result in a need to adjust the diet accordingly. For example colder climates/winter and stress result in an increased protein need for many. Many women who have a strong awareness on the body will experience differing needs for proteins/carbohydrates/fats throughout the month. On a bigger note pregnancy will also have a powerful shift on diet. Medical conditions like Candida and high blood sugar problems will recommend the absence of starchy carbohydrates from the diet (grains, below ground vegetables), which may be good for O types but they are not the only ones who suffer from these conditions.

3. Exercise

Regarding exercise I agree some people are more suited to some exercises than others. But I believe a balance is important e.g. in terms of Chinese medicine having a Ying and Yang approach – not just doing intense exercise or light exercise and combining strength, cardiovascular and flexibility into your training.

But I would like to give you an overview according to the Author of “Eat right for your type” Peter J. D’Adamo.

As I said previously I often outline with clients some foods they should avoid according to the blood type diet, which has often been very useful.
Additionally, in my experience the recommendations for O blood types have proven the most beneficial. When I come across O type clients and they eat in this manner then in every case to date they have reported fat-loss, increased energy, vitality and wellbeing. I have also experienced this diet in relation to eating a grain based diet (which I believe is not the answer for anyone) and a vegetarian diet for a short period, and I have no doubt I am a caveman. Obviously this diet has been a hit with many but the high protein diet is in my opinion and experience not the answer to everyone as Atkins and high protein diet proponents say.

Type 0

- Diet Profile: High Protein/ Low Carb: Meat eaters, Original cavemen/-women

- Beneficial foods: Meat, fish, vegetables, fruit

- Foot to avoid: Grains, esp. (wheat), corn, kidney beans, navy beans, lentils, cabbage, brussel sprouts, cauliflower

- Foods that help with weight loss: Kelp, seafood, salt, liver, red meat, kale, spinach, broccoli
- Risk factors: Ulcer, Inflammatory disease e.g. arthritis

- Recommended exercise: Vigorous & intense exercise, Martial Arts, Weights, Running

Type A

- Diet Profile: Agrarian’s polar opposite to O: High Carb, Low Fat

- Beneficial foods: Vegetables, tofu & soy, seafood (many varieties), grains, beans, legumes, fruit

- Food to avoid: Meat, dairy, kidney beans, lima beans, wheat

- Foods that help with weight loss: Vegetable oil, soy foods, vegetables, pineapple

- Risk factors: Cancer, Heart disease

- Recommended exercise: Gentle exercise, Yoga, Golf

Type B

- Diet Profile: Balanced, omnivore

- Beneficial foods: Meat (no chicken), dairy, grains, beans, legumes, vegetables, fruits

- Food to avoid: Corn, lentil, peanuts, sesame, seeds, buckwheat, wheat

- Foods that help with weight loss: Greens, eggs, venison, liver, licorice, tea, meat

- Risk factors: Viruses attacking nervous system

- Recommended exercise: Moderate exercise, Walking, Swimming

Type AB

- Diet Profile: Mixed diet in moderation

- Beneficial foods: Meat, seafood, dairy, tofu, beans, legumes, grains, vegetables, fruits

- Food to avoid: Red meat, kidney beans, lima beans, seeds, corn, buckwheat, chicken

- Foods that help with weight loss: Tofu, seafood, dairy, greens, kelp, pineapple

- Risk factors: A + B characteristics

- Recommended exercise: Calming exercise, relaxation techniques

“Actually, there is no scientific research yet which proves the relationship between blood type and children personality,” says Tisna Chandra, M.Si, child psychologist and owner of Spectrum Treatment and Education Centre, Jakarta, Indonesia. But, some books mention that there is relationship between blood type and children characters and raising children. In Japan, personality analysis by blood type is known as Ketsuekigata, and becomes part of popular Japanese Culture. So, are you interested to know more what your children personality based on their blood type is and how you should raise them based on that? Let’s start with O and A blood types first.

THE ENERGETIC “O”

Children with O blood type are energetic and full of emotions. They always need to use their excessive energy and emotion. They are also adaptive, optimistic, perfectionist, and can easily accept others’ opinions and very negotiable. Whatever we ask them to do, they will do it right away. They have a strong leadership quality and high creativity. One thing you must know from them is they don’t like monotonous things and have high need for achievement. They also really care with what others say about them. That’s why what people say to them will affect them so much. Unfortunately, they can get stressed easily and tend to “play” with risks. May be that’s why the energetic O children also have tendency to be hyperactive and get anger easily. But, of course not all of them are like that.

GUIDES TO RAISING YOUR ENERGETIC “O” CHILDREN

Here are some tips for those who have energetic O child:

1. Give him or her opportunity to be a leader. For example, in family meeting to decide what television brand your family will buy, he or she can lead the meeting.

2. Teach them to make plan for their daily activities

3. Don’t give him or her too many extra curricular activities

4. Teach him or her to think positively and manage his or her anger effectively

5. Because your child is very adaptive, you need to avoid them from negative influences such as drugs and free sex.

THE FUSSY “A”

Children with A blood type tend to be fussy and always exaggerate things, and have complicated mind map. They are also a little bit rigid, fragile, very detailed and care about themselves exessively. What people think not really important is very very important to them. They tend to be perfectionist, easily get panic, worry about many things, and not easy to be relaxed. The positive sides of them are passionate, peaceful, sensitive, and creative.

TIPS FOR PARENTS:

1. Give your children relaxing activities

2. Tell them that they don’t have to do everything perfectly

3. For their meals schedule, separate it into 4 or 5 meal times with small portions

4. Manage their “television time”

5. Avoid using bad words or high voice when you give them advice

The Ignorant “B’

Children with B blood type tend to be sweet but can be wild too. They are also hard worker, stubborn, joyful, realistic, a little bit ignorant and irresponsible. If you wanna teach them discipline, you really need to guide them. They are also flexible but tend to ignore what people say about them and like to suppress their anger. That’s why they need to learn more about rules and norms. For creativity, actually they are creative enough but they really need stimulation from their parents to explore their creativity and talents. By the way, they have poor body balance that make them have difficulty in balancing their body.

Tips for their parents:

1. You should give clear and flexible rules for them

2. Know their creativity and talents and give them stimulation so that they can show their potential

3. Guide them to manage their activities effectively

4. For physical activities, direct them to body balancing activities, like running or jumping.

5. Teach them to be more concerned about norm and rules

6. Give plenty of time to talk and share with them.

The Doubtful “AB”

“AB” children tend to be calm, controllable, and rational. But, the negative side is they tend to be indecisive. Even though they look not emotional, they are doubtful. When they make decision by themselves, they often regret that decision. They also like to suppress their feeling, tend to be passive because they are afraid if what they do is wrong. Because they are easily influenced by their surroundings, parents should avoid them from bad influence.

Tips for the parents:

1. Teach them to solve their problems by themselves

2. Teach them to discuss their choices, ask them their reason to choose those choices and what choice that they choose

3. Don’t give too strict rules. Ask them to make rules together with you.

4. Let them choose clothes that they want to wear by themselves

5. Give them a good example at home if you don’t want them do something bad

6. Direct them to group activities, but not competitive ones

7. Teach them to be more independent

8. Give opportunities that can make them to respect themselves

So, does that description match with your child?

Even creepier is this fact: Gluten, the most common lectin found in wheat and other grains, binds to the lining of the small intestine, causing substantial inflammation and painful irritation in some blood types-especially Type O.

Yikes! This is serious business for all O positive blood types and especially runners because what is binding to the small intestines eventually turns to fat. Type O blood types thrive on intense physical exercise and animal protein. According to Dr. D’Adamo, the digestive tracts of all Type Os retain the memory of ancient times.

The profile of an O blood type person (know as The Hunter) is a meat eater with a hardy digestive tract who has an overactive immune system, is intolerant to dietary and environmental adaptations, responds best to stress with intense physical exercise, and requires an efficient metabolism to stay lean and energetic. This is a perfect description of me, an O positive blood type.

The high-protein hunter-gatherer diet and the enormous physical demands placed on the systems of early Type Os probably kept most primitive humans in a mild state of ketosis, says D’Adamo, a condition in which the body’s metabolism is altered.

Ketosis is the result of a high-protein, high-fat diet that includes very few carbohydrates.

The body metabolizes the proteins and fats into ketones, which are used in place of sugars in an attempt to keep glucose levels steady. The combination of ketosis, calorie deprivation, and constant physical activity make for a lean, mean hunting machine. The success of the Type O diet depends on the use of lean, chemical-free meats, poultry and fish. Thus, by restricting your consumption of grains, breads, legumes and beans, you will lose weight on the Type O diet.

Your O blood type diet will also restore your natural genetic rhythm, according to Dr. D’Adamo.

I had to learn the hard way that, contrary to what most magazine articles advocate and promote-and this advice is by nutrition experts who apparently know little about the effect of foods on different blood types-the leading factor in weight gain for Type Os is the gluten found in wheat germ and whole wheat products. I was stunned to learn this scientific fact. The reason this occurs in O blood types is that the gluten acts on Type O metabolisms to create the exact opposite of ketosis.

Instead of keeping you lean and in a high-energy state, the gluten lectins inhibit your insulin metabolism, interfering with the efficient use of calories for energy. Dr. D’Adamo says that eating gluten is like putting the wrong kind of octane in your engine. Instead of fueling your engine, it clogs it up.

Ninety-five percent of the lectins we absorb are processed by our body, according to D’Adamo, but at least 5% of the lectins we eat are filtered into our bloodstream, where they react with and destroy red and white blood cells.

Type Os should avoid the most common lectins found in wheat and other grains because they can bind to the lining of the small intestine and turn to fat, causing substantial inflammation and painful irritation in O blood types. These lectins can be beneficial for other blood types but not Os.

Wheat products are a primary culprit in Type O weight gain. The glutens in wheat germ interfere with the Type O metabolic processes. This means all breads, bagels, English muffins, oat bran muffins, wheat bran muffins, sprouted wheat bread and whole wheat bread are all avoids for Type Os.

Other factors can also contribute to O positive blood type weight gain, such as corn (to a lesser degree) and thyroid regulation (Os have low levels of thyroid hormone, which can generate hypothyroidism resulting in weight gain, fluid retention, muscle loss and fatigue).

It is also important to note that food allergies are not digestive problems, but they are immune system reactions to certain foods, according to D’Adamo. Your immune system literally creates an antibody that fights the intrusion of the food into your system. This research and observation of the effect of digesting certain foods in particular blood types is lost on popular nationally-circulated running magazines.

I have stopped reading these magazines because they always recommend eating carbohydrate rich foods immediately following an intense workout to replace the carbs you have burned. That advice may have been great for other blood types, but it could be the “kiss of death” for O blood types.

Have you ever tried to lose weight? Did you know that if you really want to lose weight you should select the diet, according to your blood type? In this article I am going to tell you which food you should eat if you have A, B, O, or even AB blood type.

We are not all the same, each person is different and needs his own diet plan. Diet plans which are aimed at the general population, might not help you. Different blood types need different metabolic stimulation and certain foods can even act as poisons to certain blood types, causing health problems and obesity.

First of all, you need to know your blood type before you start your blood type diet. There are 4 blood types as it was mentioned above: A, B, O and AB.

People with O blood type should a high-protein food such as meat and fish, supplemented with vegetables, root ones in particular. These people should use high-protein diets to lose weight.

People with A blood type should eat a vegetarian food and use vegetarian diets.

People with B blood type can eat a widely varied diet, with meat, fruit and vegetables of all types.

People with AB can eat whatever A and B blood types eat!

Follow this simple rules and you will lose weight for sure. If you want to learn more about blood type diets, you should visit the site below. You will find information about new diet, based not on calorie or carb counting, but on food you eat. I recommend you this diet because I use it myself at the moment.

Several years ago, a very interesting new idea with regard to weight loss became all the rage: eating for your blood type. This concept answered the age-old question of why not all eating plans work for all people. That much seems undeniable – people are very different with regard to the types of food that works for them, as well as the type of exercise program. A weight loss regime that works for one person won’t necessarily work for someone else – that much we know. Some experts started to link this to blood type. There are four main blood types, and according to this way of thinking, each type represents a body type. If you eat the food that is right for your type, you will lose weight effortlessly. Conversely, most weight problems are the result of eating the food that’s wrong for your type. As well, there are types of exercise that are suitable for some types and not for others. Though mainstream science ridiculed this idea, thousands of people followed the eating plan for their blood type and many had excellent results. This is the theory: the different blood types evolved at different times in human history, and even nowadays people with those types have traits that are specific to humans at that stage of evolution. This may sound confusing, but it’s clearer with an example: According to this theory, ‘o’ type blood, because it’s the simplest type, evolved first. At that time in human history, people had not yet developed agriculture. They were primarily hunters, and ate meat and greens; they ate no wheat, and no dairy, because those foods developed later on with the advent of farming. Humans at that time in history also exercised vigorously. So, if you have ‘o’ type blood, your body is similar to this early human physiology. If you eat a lot of carbohydrates and don’t exercise vigorously, you will have weight problems and other health problems, because you are not eating and exercising in the way that is right for your blood type and body type. To lose weight and be healthy, if have ‘o’ type blood, you have to eat plenty of red meat and vegetables, and very little wheat or dairy. You should also have a strenuous physical activity, like running or weight lifting, that you practice several times a week. But if you are a type ‘a’ or ‘b’, for example, that advice would be all wrong for you. These types developed somewhat later, after agriculture was established, so these individuals can and should eat more fruits, vegetables, and grains. People with ‘ab’ type blood are lucky; their type evolved last, after humans had incorporated all types of food into their diet. So ‘ab’s can basically eat anything – within reason – and not gain weight. Over the past six or seven years, many people have followed this plan and lost a lot of weight. There are a few problems with it, though. First of all, as mentioned before, there is no hard scientific evidence that shows that people with different blood types are physiologically different. It’s an appealing idea, but it can’t be proven as yet. Also, some of the blood type diets (particularly the diet for type ‘o’) are very restrictive. In fact, the type ‘o’ diet is rather like Atkins at its most restrictive, and some nutritionists feel that this might lead to problems with high cholesterol in the long run. On the other hand, proponents of the diet argue that type ‘o’ people are precisely those who can afford to eat a lot of meat without negatively affecting their cholesterol level. If someone with a different blood type ate in this way, it might be a problem, but not for “o’s”. And it is certainly true that some people develop or don’t develop cholesterol problems seemingly regardless to their dietary intake. If the theory has no basis, though, how would we explain the weight loss that so many people have experienced? It may be simpler than you think, actually. Any one of the four blood type eating plans, if followed correctly, would have you eating healthier, more natural food. Some, like the ‘o’ diet, are also quite restrictive. It seems likely that these diets make you lose weight in and of themselves, regardless of what blood type you are!