Eat right 4 your type diet
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This diet is based on the idea that your blood type reflects your anthropological background and that this influences your body's reaction to food.
How the Eat right 4 your type diet claims to work
The author of this diet plan claims that people's metabolic profiles differ and that these can be matched to specific dietary constituents. In order to avoid the complexity that renders some metabolic-profiling systems useless, this plan categorizes all people by their blood type. The author proposes that your anthropological background - whether your ancestors were hunters, cultivators, enigmas, or nomads - is reflected in your blood type; that the antibodies on the outside of blood cells vary with blood type; and that these react in varying ways to food antigens, causing intolerance and illness. If you eat the right foods for your type you will lose weight and have more energy.
The Eat right 4 your type regimen
- Persons with Type O blood are believed to be the oldest in evolutionary terms and are therefore more adapted to a red-meat-based, low-carbohydrate diet, with few grains and no wheat.
- Type As are younger evolutionarily, as humans moved from being hunter-gatherers to a more agrarian lifestyle. This group tolerates vegetables better and are advised to follow a vegetarian, high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet.
- Type Bs emerged when the races were merging from Africa, Europe, Asia, and America. According to this plan, Type Bs tolerate a more balanced diet that includes a variety of vegetables, fruits, dairy products, grains, and meats.
- Type ABs represent the newest group from interbreeding. They have fewer restrictions and tolerate more foods.
Is the Eat right 4 your type diet healthy?
The idea of basing your dietary needs on your blood type has no scientific foundation. Neither has the premise that your risk of certain diseases is based on your blood type. If it were, people's blood types would be tested as routine when they are admitted to hospital or for surgery visits.
A serious drawback of the diet plan for Type A and O blood types is that dairy products are limited and, consequently, the diets are low in calcium.
Lisa Hark, PhD RD & Dr Darwin Deen
Nutrition for Life Copyright © 2005 Dorling Kindersley Text copyright © 2005 Lisa Hark and Darwin Deen
Posted 30.06.2010
- ■Cinnamon and raisin toast with cream cheese
- ■Grilled chicken with green salad and a low-fat dressing
- ■Grilled lamb chops with asparagus, green beans, and carrots
- ■Slices of tofu or tofu-based low-fat dessert
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