A Great Diet For Some People
Written: Mar 21 '04
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Pros: None.
Cons: If you're not type O, everything.
The Bottom Line: Worth trying if you're an O. Otherwise avoid.
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| greyling's Full Review: Eat Right 4 Your Type Diet |
I first heard of this diet four years ago at a family Christmas gathering where a formally chunky niece breezed in wearing skin tight clothes and looking as slim as a model. When pressed for details she revealed she had been following the Eat Right For Your (Blood) Type diet for about six months or so and it had worked wonders for her. After dinner she revealed that she was on the blood type diet and that she was type O. As a type O the main thing she had to avoid was wheat based products. There were a few other restrictions but wheat was the main one.
A few months later another relative, also type O, praised the diet.
Okay, I thought, I'll check this out. Unfortunately I am not a lucky type O. I am type A and when I read the list of foods I could and could not eat I wanted to throw the book across the room. I, a life-long steak lover, was supposed to give up all meat (except for an occasional piece of chicken or turkey) most fish, dairy products and most grains, including wheat. According to Peter D'Adamo, the author of the book ( who is NOT a medical doctor by the way) if I wanted to be thin and healthy I needed to start eating nothing but soy products, some grains and vegetables. In other words I needed to become a vegetarian. Well I tried that years ago and I felt constantly exhausted and sick. I barely had enough energy to drag myself out of bed every morning. After a week of tofu and brown rice I gladly went back to eating red meat and I've never looked back.
Each blood type has a recommended exercise regime as well as a recommended diet. The recommended exercise regime for type A dieters is gentle yoga. No wonder, since on that near starvation diet who would have the energy for more vigorous forms of exercise .
The diets recommended for blood types B and AB are nearly as restrictive as the one recommended for blood type A, although they do include more animal protein.
Mr. D'Adamo claims to have invented this diet after years of research, some of which was based on his father's work. Personally I think he wasted his time.
Needless to say I did not try the diet and never will. Based on others' results, if you're a type O I say, give it a try. But to B's, AB's and especially A's I say avoid this diet at all costs.
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Approximate Monthly Cost (US$) 100
Food Variety Restrictions A short list of allowed foods
Restrictiveness of Portions Few small portions
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