BLOOD TYPE DIET

This was the topic asked to me by my student this morning.So, I decided to post it here.^^

The blood type diet was introduced by Peter J. D'Adamo in 1996 in a book entitled "Eat Right For Your Type; The individualized diet solution to staying healthy, living longer and achieving your ideal weight." This diet program uses the four blood types as a premise for what foods one should eat, what type of exercise one should do, and to what diseases one is susceptible.

The cells in your body have certain distinct chains of sugar (polysaccharides), which give you a specific blood type; O, A, AB or B. The key to the individualized diet, claims D'Adamo, is matching the correct food to whichever of the four classifications of blood type you fit into.

Type O Blood, D'Adamo tells us you're a "hardy hunter gatherer" who thrives on a carnivorous diet and vigorous exercise and who should avoid foods like oat bran and corn flakes.

Type As, on the other hand, are the "cultivators," who to succeed should avoid meat altogether and focus on complex carbohydrates such as grains and vegetables. These people, D'Adamo says, should release stress with calming activities such as yoga.

Type B, is "the nomad" and lies somewhere between A and O and can enjoy a varied diet of carbohydrates, proteins, vegetables and dairy products. True to its name, this type should engage in moderate, mobile exercise such as walking or swimming. Finally, type AB, "the enigma," is one that doesn't quite seem to fit into the blood type system. This person may have the intolerances of As and B but nevertheless can eat a variety of foods.

The blood type theory is founded on anthropology. D'Adamo reasons that as type O was the first blood type to evolve, then people with this blood type should eat like our hunter-gatherer ancestors. By the same logic, type Bs or the 'nomads' are so categorized because it was around the time of the great global migrations that type B evolved.