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

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

See Also

Genetic Diet: Eat 4 Your Type

www.dadamo.com – The authors home page.