Have you heard of the blood type diet?
If you haven’t heard of the blood type diet (which has been around for several years now), then I highly recommend checking it out. I am not usually too into all of these fad diets that come out i.e. south beach, atkins, zone. I think they all have interesting points to them but do not necessarily encompass a completely healthy or manageable way of eating and living. None the less, I like to know what my clients are up to so I read them.
Being in the industry for a while now I have begun to notice how these diet books cycle through the years - different versions of different books with the same concept being brought to the NY times best seller list and then they become a “fad” - it’s almost laughable to me at times. As Americans we are so obsessed with these diet books. Many people are diet gurus - they know every single book out there and can claim that they have tried every diet as well - it’s just crazy! There is one however that I do believe has some truly scientific worthiness to it and that is the blood type diet.
The blood type diet is based upon the concept that we should at certain foods according to our blood type. For example, blood group O is believed by D’Adamo to be the hunter and is the earliest human blood group. He recommends this type eat a meat rich diet. Where as blood group A, D’Adamo believes it to be a more recently evolved blood type, dating back from the dawn of agriculture. The diet recommends that individuals of blood group A eat a diet emphasizing vegetables and free of red meat, a more vegetarian food intake.
Of course, this book is not without it’s criticisms as they all have them - but I find this book to have some real value to it. I also have found for myself that many of the recommendations hold true. I am blood type A and have always wondered why I was not drawn to meat and found myself choking it down just to get the protein in. Turns out, my body was instinctually trying to steer me towards a more vegetarian lifestyle. I am not strictly vegetarian but I do eat very little meat and comprise most of my meals of fish, tofu, beans as protein sources with turkey and chicken every now and then. Eating this way I have noticed a remarkable difference in how I look and feel. It’s certainly an interesting concept and one I believe is worth checking out if you haven’t already as it may just be part of the answer you were looking for!