Should You Follow the Blood Type Diet?
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There must be hundreds or even thousands of different diets out there; diets that promise miraculous results, diets that restrict food intake, diets that are based on supplements, and now, we have a diet that is based on your blood type! This diet is one of the newer ones, and people are seeing results on it. The diet has as many different eating plans as there are blood types, because the creator of the diet, Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo, author of the book, “Eat Right 4 Your Type,” thinks that you should be eating according to your blood type.
Basically, the blood type diet boils down to the different foods that work for the different blood types. If you have Type A blood, you should only eat a vegetarian like diet that is low in fat and high in fruits and vegetables, while the Type B blood type people should follow a more omnivorous diet, while balancing between plants and meats. People with Type AB blood should be strict vegetarians, but Type O blood people can have the most diverse diet of all, while staying away from dairy, nuts and wheat.
In his book, Dr. D’Adamo says that the reasons for all of these restrictions are because people are more prone to certain diseases and ailments depending on the type of blood they have. The kinds of food you eat has a lot to so with how you are preparing your body to fight off diseases, and if you eat to prevent the things that you are already prone to because of your blood type, you are giving your body a good head start on the fight. In fact, if you eat right for your blood type, you will hopefully never have to fight these diseases at all!
If you need a few scientific studies to be backing a new diet before you will consider trying it, then this diet is not the one for you. To date, there haven’t been any studies completed on the blood type diet, and it doesn’t look like Dr. D’Adamo will be conducting any studies on it any time soon. However, even though there haven’t been any studies, this diet still promote healthy eating, and dieters don’t have to count calories or weigh their food portions, which has made this eating plan a popular one amongst some dieters.
If you have food sensitivities and allergies to the foods that you are supposed to eat for your blood type, I would not recommend following this eating plan. I would also recommend that you talk to your doctor about it before beginning this diet, as with any other diet out there. If you have Type AB blood, and you have a weakness for hamburgers, I would say that restricting something you love completely, will only set you up for failure, so I recommend setting up a cheat meal once every 2 weeks or so, and having that hamburger – not too often of course, but cheating every once in a while will help you to stick to the healthier eating plan.
