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What's the deal with my blood type?

Each of us carries in our blood the living memory of human history. Blood Type O is the oldest, thrive best in hunting environment (meat eaters); migration of blood type O from Africa to northern and eastern Europe due to competition for survival and meat forced them to adapt to new agricultural environment (Neolithic period) and Blood Type A was born. Blood Type B originated somewhere northern India, Mongolia and eastern China and part of Russia which thrive best on dairy products. Intermingling of blood A and B during modern civilization created new blood type called AB. Our ancestors left each of us a special legacy, imprinted in our blood types. This legacy exists permanently in the nucleus of each cell. It is here that the anthropology and science of our blood meet.

It has been found that blood type was the way to explain the many paradoxes in dietary studies and disease survival. Why are some people able to lose weight on a particular diet, while others were not? Why did some people retain vitality late in life, while others deteriorated mentally and physically? Although as a species humans are mostly alike, we deemed to be most distinguished by our differences. The book Eat Right 4 Your Type published in 1996 by Doc Peter D’Adamo was the first diet to explore this biological individuality. Tens of thousands of testimonials, medically certified results, and new genetic research have demonstrated that the Blood Type Diet has become a powerful mainstream tool for living more healthfully.

Your blood type has everything to do with how you digest food, your ability to respond to stress, your mental state, the efficiency of your metabolism, and the strength of your immune system.

Blood type can determine so many things: how much and how often we should eat; what our optimal daily schedule should be; what our best sleep/ rest patterns are; how stress affects us and how to combat it; how to maximize our health; how to overcome disease; how we deal with aging; and even our degree of emotional well-being.

If you try to lose weight by restricting calories, you’ll lose muscle tissue, even if you also exercise regularly. While exercise can offset some of the loss in muscle tissue, low-calorie dieting for more than ten to fourteen days in a row is detrimental to your overall body composition. This is the prime reason why eating and exercising by blood type is the most rational method of balanced weight loss. If you eat correctly for your type, you gain active tissue mass, which increases your basal metabolic rate, which then allows the excess fat to be burned off, without loss of muscle tissue.



Your Personality - Type A

INTROVERTED
- Intense
- Inventive
- Demanding
- Perfectionist
- Sensitive
- Cooperative
- Creative

Your Diet - Type A

Type A flourish on vegetarian diets – the inheritance of their more settled and less warlike farmer ancestors. It is particularly important for sensitive Type As to get their foods in as natural a state as possible: fresh, pure and organic.

Foods that encourage weight gain:

Meat -- poorly digested, stored as fat, increases digestive toxins
Dairy Foods -- inhibit nutrient metabolism, increases mucous secretions
Kidney Beans -- interfere with digestive enzymes, slow metabolic rate
Lima Beans -- interfere with digestive enzymes, slow metabolic rate
Wheat -- (in overabundance) impairs calorie utilization

Foods that encourage weight loss:

Vegetable oils -- aid efficient digestion, prevent fluid retention
Soy foods -- efficient digestion, metabolize quickly, optimize immune function
Vegetables -- aid efficient metabolism, increase intestinal mobility
Pineapple -- increases calorie utilization, increases intestinal mobility


Your Personality - Type B

INDEPENDENT
- Free Thinking
- Resilient
- Creative
- Original
- Subjective
- Inveterate
- Organizer

Your Diet - Type B

Type B can best be described as idiosyncratic – with utterly unique and sometimes chameleonlike characteristics. On the whole, the sturdy and alert Type Bs are usually able to resist many of the most severe diseases common to modern life. Yet because Type Bs are somewhat offbeat, their systems seem more prone to exotic immune-system disorders, such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Foods that encourage weight gain:

Corn -- inhibits insulin efficiency, hampers metabolic rate,
causes hypoglycemia
Lentils -- inhibit proper nutrient uptake, hamper metabolic efficiency, cause hypoglycemia
Peanuts -- hamper metabolic efficiency, cause hypoglycemia,
inhibit liver function
Sesame seeds -- hamper metabolic efficiency, cause hypoglycemia
Buckwheat -- inhibits digestion, hampers metabolic efficiency, causes hypoglycemia
Wheat -- slows the digestive and metabolic processes, causes food to be stores as fat, not burned as energy, inhibits insulin efficiency

Foods that encourage weight loss:

Green vegetables -- aid efficient metabolism
Meat aid -- efficient metabolism
Liver -- aid efficient metabolism
Eggs/ Low-Fat Dairy products -- aid efficient metabolism
Licorice Tea -- counters hypoglycemia (never take licorice supplements without a doctor’s supervision. Licorice tea is okay.)


Your Personality - Type AB

INTUITIVE
- Emotional
- Passionate
- Friendly
- Trusting
- Empathetic


Your Diet - Type AB

Blood Type AB is less than a thousands years old, rare (2 – 5% of the population), and biologically complex. Type AB Diet requires that you read your foods lists very carefully, and familiarize yourself with both the Type A and Type B diets to better understand the parameters of your own diet.

Foods that encourage weight gain:

Red Meat -- poorly digested, stored as fat, toxifies intestinal tract
Seeds -- cause hypoglycemia
Kidney Beans -- inhibit insulin efficiency, cause hypoglycemia, slow metabolic rate
Lima Beans -- inhibit insulin efficiency, cause hypoglycemia, slow metabolic rate
Wheat -- decreases metabolism, inefficient use of calories,
inhibits insulin efficiency
Buckwheat -- causes hypoglycemia
Corn -- inhibits insulin efficiency

Foods that encourage weight loss:

Tofu
Seafood, Kelp
Dairy
Pineapple
Vegetables


Your Personality - Type O

EXTROVERTED
- Strong
- Leader
- Confident
- Pragmatic
- Strategic
- Patient
- Logical


Your Diet - Type O

Type Os thrive on intense physical exercise and animal protein. The success of the Type O Diet depends on your use of lean, chemical-free meats, poultry, and fish. Type Os don’t find dairy products and grains as user friendly as do most of the other blood types because their digestive systems still have not adapted to them fully.

Foods that encourage weight gain:

Wheat Gluten -- interferes with insulin efficiency slows metabolic rate
Corn -- interferes with insulin efficiency slows metabolic rate
Kidney Beans -- impair calorie utilization
Navy Beans -- impair calorie utilization
Lentils -- inhibit proper nutrient metabolism
Cabbage -- inhibits thyroid hormone
Brussels Sprouts -- inhibits thyroid hormone
Cauliflower -- inhibits thyroid hormone
Mustard Greens -- inhibit thyroid production

Foods that encourage weight loss:

Kelp -- contains iodine, increases thyroid hormone production
Seafood -- contains iodine (Increases thyroid hormone production)
Iodized Salt -- increases thyroid hormone production, contains iodine. (It is preferable that you obtain your iodine from sources such as seafood and kelp, as sodium can contribute to high blood pressure and water retention)

Liver -- B-vitamin source, aids efficient metabolism
Red Meat -- aids efficient metabolism
Kale, Spinach, Broccoli -- aid efficient metabolism