Forums: March 2010 Kickstart Forum Archive: Anyone familiar with Blood Type/Food Combination
Created on: 02/25/10 04:02 PM Views: 1431 Replies: 5
rockridge5203 Joined: 02/25/10 Posts: 1	Anyone familiar with Blood Type/Food Combination Posted Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:02 PM What an exciting time for all! I took a class offered by PCRM a few years ago for cancer prevention/vegan approach..and have tried all the recipes since. While I love them, been hard to eliminate all animal foods entirely, though have adopted much more veggies/whole grains in diet. Recently tried eliminating wheat and corn..less soy according to my "B" bloodtype and having my fruit separately, also in accordance to the BloodType/Food Combining diet approach. What are your thoughts on this? Helpful, harmful, needless?? Am i trying to do too much? Part if it is that I had been suffering from headaches from the afternoon well into the evening unless I tried everything from aromatherapy/acupuncture...and lastly Ibuprofen. When I eliminated wheat and corn last week..no more headaches. Thoughts from professional?? Many Thanks!
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serenevannoy Joined: 12/28/09 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 294	RE: Blood Type/Food Combination Posted Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:34 PM The blood type diet is nonsense. See http://www.vegsource.com/klaper/diet.htm http://www.naturalchoice.net/articles/faddiet.htm Food combining is unnecessary. The woman who popularized it in the '70s, Frances Moore Lappe, says: "In 1971 I stressed protein complementarity because I assumed that the only way to get enough protein ... was to create a protein as usable by the body as animal protein. In combating the myth that meat is the only way to get high-quality protein, I reinforced another myth. I gave the impression that in order to get enough protein without meat, considerable care was needed in choosing foods. Actually, it is much easier than I thought. "With three important exceptions, there is little danger of protein deficiency in a plant food diet. The exceptions are diets very heavily dependent on [1] fruit or on [2] some tubers, such as sweet potatoes or cassava, or on [3] junk food (refined flours, sugars, and fat). Fortunately, relatively few people in the world try to survive on diets in which these foods are virtually the sole source of calories. In all other diets, if people are getting enough calories, they are virtually certain of getting enough protein." Serene Vannoy, Oakland, CA -- My daily Kickstart blog: http://serenecooking.livejournal.com/tag/kickstart
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bunnybites Joined: 02/26/10 Posts: 2	Blood Type/Food Combination Posted Friday, February 26, 2010 at 1:02 AM I'm not sure I've seen any real evidence of the blood type/food combo being effective. I'm sure there are cases. When I first started eating vegetarian I didn't feel so great and actually gained weight. This was because I do need a good deal of protein and was eating way too many carbs. After meeting with a nutrtionist I learned the plant foods that would give me the biggest protein bang (I posted a cheat-sheet on my blog). Since cutting out dairy and eggs, and keeping my diet more balanced (I still eat too much sugary goodness!) I feel like a different person. So much more energy. But, I really think it's not a bad idea for beginners to track what their eating. For me it took a bit more effort initially than just making sure I ate a variety of foods. Now I don't even think about it. I eat more kale and beans than seems reasonable, and will fight over the last piece of Field Roast sausage! www
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shanna Joined: 12/30/09 Posts: 287	RE: Anyone familiar with Blood Type/Food Combinati Posted Friday, February 26, 2010 at 7:27 AM I think Susan Levin (this plan's RD) addresses this in the January forum. You should be able to find it with the search function. You might also read this portion of Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat to Live, where he goes over the theory and checks it against the available published studies: http://books.google.com/books?id=CX8huSU0n8AC&lpg=PA107&ots=uc26d4R85W&dq=fuhrman%20blood%20type%20diet&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q=fuhrman%20blood%20type%20diet&f=false
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Susan Levin Joined: 12/26/09 Posts: 1212	Anyone familiar with Blood Type/Food Combination Posted Friday, February 26, 2010 at 10:03 AM Hey! We definitely addressed this in the January forum. You should click around in there if you can. People may feel differently with different proportions of fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes. That's why PCRM does not place any hierarchical importance on any one food group (like the Food Guide Pyramid does). There is no evidence to support that someone needs or benefits from more grains than vegetables, for example. The Pyramid is more of a reflection of cultural acceptance than biological need. If you feel better on a bean heavy diet than a grain heavy diet. No problem. If you do better on a fruit and vegetable heavy diet than a grain heavy diet, no problem. But this has nothing to do with blood type I'm afraid. I wish it were that simple. The blood type diet is one man's money maker at best. Check out this new site: http://pcrm.org/health/powerplate/. Or go to ThePowerPlate.org. Susan Levin, MS, RD PCRM Director of Nutrition Education
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TexGal Joined: 02/25/10 Location: Texas Posts: 111	RE: Blood Type/Food Combination Posted Friday, February 26, 2010 at 11:35 AM Thanks for clearing this up. I had studied the blood type diet a few years ago, but had a lot of trouble following the diet for my O type since it doesn't allow wheat, and my husband's type called for almost opposite foods from mine! I think having a vegan and a carnivore living and eating together is much easier! LOL!
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