Anyone tried the Eating Right for your Blood Type Diet?

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Would be really interested to know if anyone has tried this diet

yes i think so alfie - i used that second one but it isn't as accurate and doesn't split between secretor and non-secretor so i then double-checked against the detailed and yet annoying one here: www.dadamo.com/typebase4/typeindexer.htm

ah but if i was then a non-secretor wouldn't i then lose wheat pp?

of your luscious new lashes!

do you have flax too btw?

pp can you link to the fb group please - can't find it

Sorry what's secretor and non secretor?

www.4yourtype.com/prodinfo.asp?number=TE002

apparently most (85%?) people are secretors so you should follow that guidance if you don't know.

i hate his website - i can't find that bit of info now but i did read it on there to begin with.

Thanks cake. Looks a good site but hard going.
Do you just count yourself as a secretor, or have you had the tests done?
ppea have you had the tests done. I was just looking at the SWAMI but crikey, look at the cost.

Am I right in thinking, I can eat eggs?

Ooh cake I can help you, just found this on that website you gave me.

www.facebook.com/groups/eatright4yourtype/

no, haven't had test done. not sure i'll bother if i feel the results are good anyway.

yy to eggs for As - i just don't eat them anyway being a vegan.

cheers for the link.

Yes, I do and have done so for over 10 years now. It made an enormous difference to my gut health - IBS disappeared, acid reflux is minimised and I no longer feel nauseous after 50-66% of my meals. Brain fade and fatigue straight after lunch diminished a lot as well.

I follow it pretty closely; and thank God that I am a group B and can still have dairy with impunity! I found that, although refined wheat was suggested as a "neutral" for me, giving it up entirely was a far better plan. I can have a small amount very occasionally without incidence, but not more than once - if I do it twice in a short space of time, then I suffer.

I have to say I read the book in a spirit of complete scepticism - being a blood scientist - but things rang bells for me, and so I tried it and was amazed at the result. I still think some of the science in it is a bit off; the anthropology is a bit hit and miss, for e.g.! But the lectins - well yes. I have no issue with the science there. There have been some sceptics who have tried to refute the whole thing on the basis that lectins are proteins and therefore will be digested in the stomach and never make it as far as the blood; but this is rubbish. Lectins are pretty resistant to digestion and some are known to cause problems - ricin, for example (a lectin from the castor oil plant) is a highly potent toxin that can kill people; the lectins from kidney beans (unsoaked) are pretty dangerous too, and those from the fava bean can cause a disease condition known as "favism". So - there is something in it, I believe.

A friend of mine who is a group A tried it - and lost the persistent 2st overweight that she had found unshiftable.

I can't say it's had a positive impact on my weight, possibly the opposite as the IBS diminished - but I don't blame the diet itself for that, just my eating habits!

However, the change in my digestive health is so immense that I work around the diet all the time - and despite DH being pissed off occasionally and asking me if I'll ever "grow out of it" we cope well as a family.

Thanks cake
Wow thumbwitch what a positive post. That was just what I needed to hear with regards to the IBS.

Hey for anyone with an Iphone (I'm getting one for my birthday and very excited and very sad ) there is a blood type app, looks quite good.

Sorry, can I just ask? I have spotted a few items that cross over, on Dr Lams it tells me I'm not ok with white bread, however on Dadamo he says I can eat white bread.

Am I ok with bread and pasta?

alfie - I think the wheat is one of the most confusing areas of the whole concept! Group Bs are supposed to be able to eat white bread too but I don't because I find that it does cause me problems. Just having looked at my book again, it gets worse re. pasta, because it says you can't have semolina or spinach pasta (ok) but says you can have durum wheat, which is often used to make pasta. So - confusing!

Similarly, I can apparently have semolina and spinach pasta but must avoid durum wheat. .
Hence I avoid the bally lot and have rice pasta, usually with millet, as those are my beneficial grains :) and corn is on my avoid list.

You appear to be ok with corn though as a type A, so you can have corn pasta, of which there is a wide variety in the Free From area of supermarkets :)

Yes, yes, I noticed that to . I think I will do the same as you and avoid. Ooh thanks thumbwitch, I will check out the corn pasta.

Its quite scary really, because I also don't want to put any weight on (shallow I know). Ive always gone off low fat and low cal is the way to go. My IBS is the opposite of yours thumbwitch.

What do you eat for treats? I'm thinking some kind of nuts and raisins maybe.

Oh it's fantastic to hear from you Thumbwitch thanks a lot I too have been on the blood type for many years ,as you probably gathered.

Yes I have also noticed some confusion in the encyclopedia e.g DH (who is also sceptical (guess which one of us is always ill and 5 stone overweight? ) is an O type our 3 Dcs are 2 type A's and one AB which according to the diagram isn't meant to happen! Maybe you can explain it as a scientist .

yes i also used to find white bread a problem although since i have been taking borage oil and ground pumpkin and linseeds regularly my digestion of white bread has improved plus my eyelashes!!!

I envy Bs in some ways but I LOVE avocadoes so maybe i'm happier being an A!!

cakes I take ground linseeds . alfie IIWY i'd get the book much more comprehensive and secretor means that your gut actually secretes your blood type and non secretor obviously means it doesn't!!

well once you know which grains and flours you can eat, then you go and check out the Free From shelves - they have a multitude of yummy stuff. I particularly like Mrs Crimble's Double choc chip brownies. . Nairns oat biscuits are good too (although check the fruity ingredients against your list).

I particularly like that no one is really banned from chocolate but that it should only be used as a condiment, not a main meal. That's one instruction I do tend to ignore, hence the weight ishoos.

According to my book, you can have any nuts except Brazils, pistachios and cashews. Bummer!

Thumbwitch if you're interested the best way of loosing weight is on the Paul Mckenna and with food combining and also eating fruit on an empty stomach and the blood type of course I have lost 2 and a half stone!

On the P.M. I eat a bit of 70% chocolate but it has to be when you're hungry and then SLOWLY and CONSCIOUSLY!! it bloody works!!

Thanks will do ppeat. I am going shopping tonight, so just want a few things to stock me up until book arrives.

so far on list I have
Chicken and Turkey
Rye bread 100%
eggs
soya
quorn
walnuts
cod
salmon
mackerel
salad
rice
Berries for fruit
oats
soya milk
goats cheese
quark
peanut buuter not sure if this one is allowed

forgot me veggies
Carrots, mushrooms, peas

alfie I like the rice noodles and rice pasta 'cos they're quick and easy and not overpriced!! Quinoa is also nice. Bit more pricey though.

hello ppeat!

You are an A, your DH is an O, you have 2 A children and an AB?? Yes I'm a touch sceptical about the AB as well, I have to say! When was the AB tested? I mean, at what age? I'd possibly think about getting that one re-done just to be on the safe side, as I'm assuming you'd know if there were any external reason why the B antigen suddenly got introduced into the family, iykwim.

For those wanting to know what the secretor bit is all about - basically your blood group is down to the glycoproteins that coat the surface of your red blood cells and what sugars they have on them. One sugar on the end = blood group A, a different sugar on the end = blood group B; if you have some with one and some with the other then you get blood group AB; and if you have naked glycoproteins then you get blood group O. Imagine it like a series of hats. Yellow hat = A, blue hat = B, both hats = AB, no hat = O. (There is also a very very very rare group called the Bombay group which doesn't even have a head - don't know what Dr D'Adamo would make of them!)
Anyway - secretor status means you excrete your blood group glycoproteins into your blood as well as them being on your red blood cells. This can be beneficial in that the lectins might decide to pick on the secreted A or B substance rather than mug the red blood cells; but if they agglutinate it, then you get lumps of glycoprotein floating around in your blood, which isn't all that good for you.

Gosh that took a while to type. Ppeat - the best way for me to lose weight is shift my lardy arse around a bit more than I do currently and STOP eating bastarding chocolate!
I know this, I just have troubles doing it.[glum] I gave up the bloody wine, why is chocolate so frigging hard?

Anyway - the exercise is going to commence next week so things should improve :)^

Sounds good alfie peanut butter is beneficial BUT look at the ingredients 'cos even the Whole Earth one has palm oil in it which is not good for the environment and our health.You'll get the palm oil ,sugar free one in the good health food shops.

Thanks Thumb i tested them when they were in their early teens. I have a feeling my father was an AB or B would that make a difference? (I can't check' cos he died quite young and was estranged from us. (just looking at our AB DD) we can tell she has our genes!!

She has health issues and IMO she's got an allergy to chicken though annoyingly she fights against my advice so i have to be cool with her.

Thanks thumbwitch, I'm actually looking forward to food shopping and looking at the free from range
Thanks ppeat, I will have a look at the peanut butter, oh it's going to be hard this.
Thumbwitch thanks for the info, it's amazing when you think about it and makes sense that this dietlifestyle would work.

I was quite excited to see wine was allowed, even though it is only one glass.