Blood Type Diet
A blood type diet is a nutrition plan based around your blood type. This kind of diet became popular with the release of Peter D’Adamo’s book Eat Right 4 Your Type.
The book continues to be a bestseller. D’Adamo claims that the diet will not only bring about weight loss — but can assist with allergy and infection resistance, and will achieve overall good health.
Dr. D’Adamo started out as promoting the eating of the right foods as a way to improve health and wellbeing.
However, in the last several years he has developed a whole line of nutritional supplements consisting of pills, shakes, bars, skin products, and even chocolates developed nutritionally for each of the four blood types.
He also has supplements designed to combat various conditions and disorders as well as home tests to use to assess blood type, free radical count, and genotype.
What is a Blood Type Diet?
Most of the population has blood type O. Here the prescribed diet is low-carbohydrate, high in proteins (such as meat and fish), and low in dairy products. The author suggests specific foods to avoid; such as avocados, brazil nuts, and oranges. Type O should also engage in lots of exercise.
Blood Type A should avoid red meat, eat plenty of fish and vegetables, with a low dairy intake. Light exercise only.
Blood Type B should avoid chicken and bacon, eat plenty of meat and dairy, some fish, and plenty of fruit and vegetables.
Blood Type AB combines the A and B diets.
Is This Diet For Real?
The author claims that much of the recommendations are based on scientific evidence – but perhaps it is too early to make this claim. Metabolism and/or sugar/insulin sensitivity are probably key factors in deciding diet – not blood type.
Two people can have very different metabolisms and have the same blood type. One could be sensitive to carbohydrates or sugar, whilst the other needs a high carbohydrate diet.
Weight loss and other health improvements may occur on this diet – not so much because of blood type combinations, but because of a healthier diet! The author encourages people to cut down on processed and refined foods. Good advice for anyone regardless of blood type.
The book also includes low calorie diets that will probably bring about weight loss in anyone (once again, regardless of blood type).
Costs and Expenses
Eat Right For Your Type retails for $24.95.
Click Here to purchase the book at a discounted price.
Smart Phone Apps
The Blood Type Diet also has an iPhone and Android application available that compliments the diet plan. This app helps the dieter make wise choices at the grocery store and while eating out. It’s available in several different languages and can be purchased for an additional $3.99.
Sample Meal Plans for the Blood Type Diet
Type B MenuBreakfast Lunch Snack Dinner |
Type O Menu Breakfast Lunch Snack Dinner |
Type A MenuBreakfast Lunch Snack Dinner |
Type AB MenuBreakfast Lunch Snack Dinner |
More recipes ideas can be found here.
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Eat Right 4 Your Type Banned Foods
Any diet containing a long list of banned foods can be difficult to follow. Eat Right 4 Your Type and the various blood type diets included encourage a predominantly meat and fish diet, while grains, potatoes, cereals, breads, pasta are not encouraged. Interestingly, certain vegetables and fruits are also banned.
Exercise
Eat Right for Your Blood Type does promote exercise as way to increase health and vitality as well as for stress relief. Each blood type has exercises that are recommended as suitable for their bodies as well as recommendations for intensity and duration.
Pros
- Many have reported better health from eating according to their blood type.
- Dr. D’Adamo has years of experience as a naturopathic doctor.
- Weight loss can also occur.
- Promotes the use of whole foods.
Cons
- Dr. D’Adamo isn’t a medical doctor.
- Supplements are promoted heavily.
- Many healthy and nutritious foods are banned for certain types.
- Eating out can be difficult.
- Many people are healthy eating all foods despite their blood type.
Conclusions
Originally Dr. D’Adamo’s Blood Type Diet started out as predominantly whole food nutrion based, but seems like since has evolved into a front to sell all kinds of nutritional supplements and miracle concoctions to users of the blood type diet plan. The supplements are expensive and most likely unnecessary.
See Also
www.dadamo.com – The authors home page.


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Im group O blood type and need to lose weight, weight loss products does not work for me. How can i lose weight naturally?
I find this diet will work for weight loss but not necessarily for ailments. I have arthritis and find that an elimination diet worked better than this diet as BTD has too many foods. Granted the BTD for Arthritis works but in a sense because it is so limited it is also similar to an elimination diet plus you get to reintroduce foods on the ED – it’s not suggested with the BTD. I think if you need to lose some pounds and want a healthier lifestyle most whole food, natural diets will work.
I am O+ blood type and have been suffering with stomach problems all my life. I always was very observant so I had already figured some of the foods that are good for me vs. others even if in general some are not considered healthy, such as red meat. After reading about this blood type diet I decided to try it because knowing my body and how I feel after eating certain foods, it made complete sense, as if someone was describing me and how I feel after eating. I started this diet 4 months ago and I feel so much better. Stomach problems are gone and my energy level is way up. I did also lose 15 or so pounds, which I didn’t necessarily want but apparently it was extra so I don’t miss it. Definitely works wonders and should continue observing the body and be creative with the diet.
Hi, I started the diet with much success as I am an A. I lost 70 lbs. then found out I have colitis and was put on steroids and cannot eat a lot of the foods that I ate on the diet. Needless to say I can’t follow the diet anymore and had put on the weight again. I struggled to lose the weight but haven’t got it all off because of the steriods and because I can’t eat the salads that I love the most and the pastas. Please tell me what I can do to lose the weight I have gained back as I need to lose this weight.
I am a B type and was advised to stop eating red meat because my BP is high
And eat more white meat like chicken and fish so how do I balance this diet that recommend
Red meat for my blood type
I started this diet because I wanted to lose weight and because I suffered a lot from gas, heartburn, indigestion and constipation. It really worked for me, avoiding the food recommended not to eat and consuming more of the most recommended food, I not only lost weight but my stomach problems seemed to vanish. I had been suffering stomach problems for years and no medication would work.
I did not do a lot of exercise, just follow the diet and walk when I had time.
I really recommend this diet, but fo not go into extreme, simply avoid the non recommened food or take rarely in very small amounts.
I discovered Dr. DeAdamo’s book 8 years ago. I gained 70 lbs after a motorcycle accident. I am type O. I started with just the lists of good and neutral foods. Over a year and a half I lost 80 lbs. I didn’t exercise so it would have been faster. I have kept it off ever since. I decided to make this a lifestyle change not a diet. My kids say I look younger now then I did 10 years ago. Corn was the big surprise. Even now I can tell if I add corn to my diet I feel lethargic. Ezekiel bread was the best find ever. I have given copies of this book to 8 or 10 people and all of them have had positive results. I am online now looking up info for another friend. Health issues are gone. I am getting ready to hit the big 50. I weigh what I did in high school and run 2 miles every day. I tell everyone, “It’s so easy, it’s just lists of food.” I think everyone needs to find what works for them. This is it for me. thank you Dr.
I would like to eat right for my blood type. I will start this diet in May and see how I feel after I month. I am A negative and have so many symptoms. Hopefully this will clear them up.
My blood type is B positive. I would like to try your diet strictly for a month to see how I feel to make permament changes in my life.
I am AB+ and also have an under active tyhroid glad and take medication which diet plan should I follow?
I love it keep it up. My dear Ladies who want to become sleek, slim and fit, eat according to your blood group
Hi. Does it matter whether your blood type is negative of positive. I am blood group B negative. Do I have to follow the B group?
I am 32 yrs old and have been told all my life I was, RH O NEGITIVE. I had a knee replacement in march of 2010 and was told I am o positive. i am looking forward to trying out this diet. Thanks Katie
I LOVE Peter D’Adamo’s book Eat Right 4 Your Type.
I just found out about this blood type diet and is so eager to try it. Although I have a gym membership and has been vegetarian for almost 10 years. sometimes i feel i gain weight just by drinking water lol.
i want to lose 15-20 lbs in d next 2 months. please wish me luck.
I think what contributes to my weight gain is my constant alcohol comsumption.
I have tried all different diets that had work but i guess the older you get the slower your metabolic system slows down.
my friend told me about genuine health abs plus.try at your our risk it was only a suggestion by a friend that am yet to try.
And remember if you want to start a diet regime do a detox first with a colon cleanse, watch what you eat and exercise.
good luck and i will keep y’all posted on my progess
My mother-in-law recommended “Eat Right for your Blood Type” to me after my pregnancy. I was struggling trying to lose my last 10lb and having a furious bout will allergies. I am O-Positive. Before reading I thought my diet was pretty good. I ate a lot of vegetable, fruit, whole wheat bread and pasta’s. After reading the book I found I was not doing such a good job. So, I slowly started to eliminate gluten out of my diet. Face it, if you’ve been eating the wrong things for a long time and your condition is not life threatening it takes a lot of discipline to give up the things you enjoy. Needless to say, I am Gluten free. I don’t take allergy shots anymore, and I haven’t had a cold in a year and I lost my 10lbs. I was never able to run without sucking on an inhaler. I am proud to say I ran my first 2 miles inhaler free this year. I always get a cold once a year and I haven’t even had a sign of a cold in a year. My husband, poor thing, is also O positive and has to abide by this lifestyle change as well. He commented to me a few months ago because I caught him eating some Doritos, “That there is nothing wrong with these, they don’t affect me”. My comment back was do you realize that since we have been eating by the “Eat Right for your Blood Type Diet” that you haven’t had a cold or even felt like you were coming down with something this whole year.” He had to stop and think a minute, and then agreed that I was right. He always gets anyway where from 2 to three colds a I told him it is not the immediate effect. It the lectins that Doritos leave behind that make us susceptible to colds, virus, bacteria, and eventually disease. I talk about the Gluten because for me that was the hardest for me to give up and it made such a huge difference. The other avoids for O positive wasn’t hard for me because most I didn’t like anyway and the others if I had it was very seldom or it was no big deal. I have to thank my mother-in-law for recommending it, and thank Dr Peter D’Adamo for an awesome way of life. I do have one question though. I just recently watched “Knife and Fork” a documentary about the western diet. According to doctors and scientist they recommended a wholefood diet for all Americans. Is it good for O Blood Types to have a wholefoods diet? According to the show the amount of protein and amino acids we receive in fruit and vegetables are sufficient for the body without consuming meat. For all the non-believer you need to start believing. It works!!! Most of your aliments are because of your diet.
type o+ currently tryin 2 recover from severe case of c diff & colitis w/ bloody diarreha after antibiotic s. diarreha continues but is black tarry. am afraid of anything I eat now as bloating and much heat n gut. living on h2o, grape juice, and baked potatos. have cut out all diary. i would greatly appreciate more sample diets. am 62 yo w/f. also have had IBS for many yrs.
I’ve been looking for the best way to loose weight and stay healthy. I sincerely think this will work because i’ve tried vigorous exercises but it didnt work. I’ll keep to this because i’m blood type A+
I have been reading as much as I can for the last week and have been on the eat for your type diet (type O) for about 5 days now. I haven’t been good all the time, nor sticking to the diet guidelines perfectly, but I have tried quite hard. I was wondering if it is wrong to have a small bowl of cooked rice with a teaspoon of butter in for breakfast?? I have played around with combinations of different foods and avoiding the not allowed foods. I love the tuna salad I just had for lunch with baby spinach, watercress and rocket, feta cheese crumbled, rosa tomatoes, chopped fresh onion, tuna fish and a generous splash of olive oil, a little salt. Absolutely lovely. I had a banana for something sweet too. I like my food and feel grumpy if I feel like I’m going to starve. Ecstatic that red meat is on my list. Just need some help putting more meal options together. I love beetroot, but am concerned that the bottle variety is soaked in vinegar – and vinegar is forbidden. It’s a learning curve, but I am happy to learn more, feel better and loose a few unwanted kilograms.
My girlfriend and I have been trying this for the last 3 weeks. I’m type O and she is A, so we have to be a little watchful on what we plan for menus, but it has been good. I’ve lost a few pounds and she has lost more.
We both are more energetic and have been working out as well as contuinuing our evening walks.
Hey, I’m 29 years I’m suffer with headache, my blood type is A+. I want to loss my weight, I want to use diet system Please help me. what kind of food I eat.
I just found out that I’m type A, and I just found out about the Diet thing, and I’m not afraid to try it. I see that all the things I’m not suppose to eat, actually, has been effecting my health. So, sometime this up coming weekend, my whole family and I are getting food for our blood type diet, and will be trying it for the next 30 days. I think you shouldn’t be afraid, or just say something doesn’t work with out trying it.. If something you think works for you, than keep it, and take out all the other stuff… You should want to be healthy, and happy. So try something new, and see how your body likes it.
I produce to much calcuim in my body i’m a type O positve what is it that i’m eating that produces to much calcuim could it be to much red meat? I’m 42 years old
I believe this can work because im actually found out that im lactose and tolerant (cant have milk or certain cheeses)because im A Positive. The only problem is i love meat but i guess i can become vegeterian. I tried once….. very hard.
i have been overweight most of my life.
i’m going to try this O type Diet.
I think the blood type diet works, i am type A and I tried this method and it really made me feel. much better.
thank you for all that information that you all have given to me i have spent so much money on me being sick i think if i do the diet i will be fine. rachel