Its time to eat right for your blood type

May 21
10:02

2013

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People all over the world are becoming more diet conscious than ever before. There is currently prevailing a sense of awareness about fitness and health and this awareness is quite high. People are easily getting influenced by the media and are trying out any and everything in order to achieve good health and look fit. From fad diets of celebrities to doing radical exercise routines or going under the knife, they are ready to go to any lengths to achieve the perfect body.

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People all over the world are becoming more diet conscious than ever before. There is currently prevailing a sense of awareness about fitness and health and this awareness is quite high. People are easily getting influenced by the media and are trying out any and everything in order to achieve good health and look fit. From fad diets of celebrities to doing radical exercise routines or going under the knife,Its time to eat right for your blood type Articles they are ready to go to any lengths to achieve the perfect body.

Not many are aware that following most diets will lead to only short term results and satisfaction and eventually they will get frustrated with the long term results. Following this they will again start following some other fancy new diet fad and the same vicious circle will began all over again. One of the most effective diets among the ones that are present today is the blood type diet. This kind of diet has many benefits and is usually quite good for long term goals. It is unfortunate that not many people are aware of this healthy diet which is far more beneficial than most of the others that we know of which weaken the body instead of strengthening it.

The blood type diet is a nutritional plan created by Peter D’Adamo who wrote extensively about it in his book, Eat Right 4 Your Type. The author claims that ABO blood type is the most important factor in determining a healthy diet and recommends different and individualistic diets for each blood type. So if you are an A, B, AB or O blood group person, your diet will be different from the other blood groups. Peter D’Adamo says that if you eat right for your blood type, then you will be able to follow a clear, logical, scientifically researched plan based on your cellular profile. The theory is based on the ABO classification system of Karl Landsteiner and Jan Janský, as well as some of the many other tissue surface antigens and classification systems, especially the Lewis antigen system for ABH secretor status.

An excerpt from the book reads, “At this point, you might be wondering about other blood type identifiers, such as positive/negative, or secretor/non-secretor. … These variations or subgroups within blood types play relatively insignificant roles. More than 90% of the factors associated with your blood type are related to your primary blood type, O, A, B, or AB.

The origin of the phrase that the author, eat right for your blood type, stems from the work by William C. Boyd, an immunochemist and blood type anthropologist who made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood groups. In his 1950 book Genetics and the races of man: An introduction to modern physical anthropology, Boyd had described how through genetic analysis of blood groups, modern humans can be categorized into populations that differ according to their alleles. While the blood group O is described by D’Adamo as the hunter, the A group is said to be the agrarian or cultivator, the B group is the nomad and the AB one is the enigma.