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| rb
Joined: 12/30/09 Posts: 85 |
Blood Type Foods Posted Friday, January 15, 2010 at 8:10 PM I told my hairdresser yesterday about this challenge, and she said she couldn't be a vegan because she was the blood type that is supposed to eat meat (O negative, I think). I am that type too, and I haven't eaten meat in 20 years. But I have wondered in the past about this theory and those books (Eating for Your Blood Type or something like that) because I have known people who swear by them. Any thoughts (not just denouncing them, but information)? |
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| goobygirl
Joined: 12/31/09 Posts: 70 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Friday, January 15, 2010 at 8:22 PM Am not going to debate the medical end if the theory: have heard argumenys for and against it. My overall response: if you think you can't you're right.... |
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| goobygirl
Joined: 12/31/09 Posts: 70 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Friday, January 15, 2010 at 8:24 PM Sorry for typos, typing w/iphone. |
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smday
 Location: Kansas City Posts: 52 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Friday, January 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM I think if you have very long canine teeth, that is a pretty good indication that you need to eat meat. Otherwise, not so much. |
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| goobygirl
Joined: 12/31/09 Posts: 70 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Friday, January 15, 2010 at 10:26 PM And claws, a short digestive track, highly acidic stomach, and enjoy chasing down ypur prey and eating as is, lol. http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/omni.htm |
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| Susan Levin
Joined: 12/26/09 Posts: 1191 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM There is no scientific evidence to back this theory. Zero. Susan Levin, MS, RD |
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| markacz
Joined: 01/08/10 Posts: 8 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 7:07 PM I heard many years ago that our bodies (long intestines relative to body length) are meant to digest a (mostly) plant based diet - as are elephants. Animals with short intestines (in comparison to body length) are meat eaters - such as lions, tigers and bears (omnivore) - oh, my! Check out celestialhealing.net/physicalveg3.htm Marilyn |
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VeganRecipeGuy
 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 131 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 9:06 PM Rubbish. Eat right for your type is complete dietary hoodoo without a shred of data to back it up. In fact when you look at primate blood types and their variation, you have to wonder why they are ALL primarily plant eaters... Don't take nutritional advice from a hairdresser.
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| Anna1111
Joined: 01/17/10 Posts: 6 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 1:29 PM The blood type diet is based on the author's own guesses about which blood types historically evolved to eat which foods. I have skimmed the book rather thoroughly, and he simply asserts - with absolutely no support at all, that type Os evolved to eat meat. It is very hard to refute an assertion that is given with no support, because there are no points to disagree with. All I can say is, the author offers no science to support his assertions. I have been vegetarian for 14 years (periodically vegan, but not exclusively so), and am a type O. My health has improved greatly during that time. My doctors regularly comment on my great health. |
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| goobygirl
Joined: 12/31/09 Posts: 70 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 3:45 PM I have reaf the original book and I never looked at it from a research point of view. I do know there is a company that will do different levels of allergies that supposedly affect a persons health, including food allergies. Most insurance will not cover it, which leads me tp believe it probably has some value, lol. I think it is called Alcat or something similiar. My former doc told me i should not eat anything with malt in it, but to him everything was an allergy. www.alcat.com not inexpensive testing to be sure.... |
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| Mariberry
Joined: 01/02/10 Posts: 297 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 5:14 PM I once went to a naturopath who recommended this diet and, as an O blood type, I, too was supposed to eat copious quantities of meat and engage in intense exercise! Those with blood type "A", on the other hand, were to be vegetarian and engage in yoga. I so wanted to be an A!!! (just like I so wanted to be an "autumn" and not a "winter" in the "what colour are you?" phase Well, I agree with VRG and others who purport that this theory is a load of bunk. My naturopath and I parted ways after this recommendation which, intuitively, just did not make sense to me. All we are saying is "Give Peas a Chance" |
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| Bluesgyrl
Joined: 01/06/10 Posts: 159 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 1:54 PM This is interesting. I have another take on it. About 11 years ago I read a book (of course can't remember the name of it) which prompted me to become a vegetarian. It was a book about the human's digestion of animal products and how it affects your health. It asserted that many digestive problems were due to the consumption of meat/animal products and that people simply were not built to break down these substances. Including having the sharp teeth that someone mentioned above. He used the example of cow's milk and how calves are suppose to drink cow's milk..................babies are made to drink human milk. Ok...........so now here is where I tie it to the blood type thing. He also said that carnivores in the wild (i.e. tigers, etc) killed their pray not for the protien in the meat (like so many of us are told) but for the nutrients in their prey's blood. That the reason they have such sharp teeth is not to rip meat apart to eat but rather to kill the prey, and be able to ript he meat apart to get to the blood source. This makes me question if what the prey's diet would be different acording to their diet and therefore satisy certain predators and not others due to their dietary needs? Does what I am postulating make any sense? |
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| txgirl
Joined: 01/04/10 Location: Pasadena, TX Posts: 82 |
RE: Blood Type Foods Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 3:01 PM Bluesgyrl wrote: He also said that carnivores in the wild (i.e. tigers, etc) killed their pray not for the protien in the meat (like so many of us are told) but for the nutrients in their prey's blood. That the reason they have such sharp teeth is not to rip meat apart to eat but rather to kill the prey, and be able to ript he meat apart to get to the blood source. This makes me question if what the prey's diet would be different acording to their diet and therefore satisy certain predators and not others due to their dietary needs? Does what I am postulating make any sense? Hmmh. That's an interesting take on things. I took biology about 20 years ago, (and science and my memories have probably changed since then) but I could swear I remember our teacher talking about predators typically eating herbivores and she said that they go for the gut first - where all those half digested greens are. Now I wonder...what's most important for a lion's health...entrails, blood or muscle? |
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