Eating for your blood type isn't a scam diet. Let me be clear on that. It's an honest attempt by a scientist to figure out why some people fail on a diet that works for other people. It actually works for some people -- and doesn't work for others, just like every other diet that doesn't takethe chemical processes behind digestion into account. Eating for your blood type is about evolutionary history, and I respect that -- but the chemical knowledge just isn't there.
The simple facts are, protein, carbs, and fats are all digested differently -- and they're only half the picture. You also have to watch your vitamin, mineral, and water contents. You can eat exactly the right blend of calories, but if you don't have the vitamins and minerals to go with it, and enough water to let you digest and uptake everything, your body is going to lose it's homeostatic balance, and the most common effects of that are fatigue, irratibility, and weight gain.
My nutritionist charges $30 for her initial consultation -- and that's cheap. Many people charge significantly more. For less than that cost, she's allowed me to give you the fundamentals of her advice to EVERYONE, whether you're eating for your blood type or not.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Eating Right for your Blood Type -- isn't right!
In recent years, this blood-type diet idea has slowly been gaining momentum behind the scenes. Many people have had success with it, and they attribute that success to the interesting mechanism behind the diet. I have personal proof that the blood-type diet is flawed, and I have a strong hypothesis as to why different people are actually successful on different diets. It has nothing to do with blood type. This Ebook is an in-depth guide to how diets actually work, and why the right diet will keep you not only trim, but free of heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more.
The theory behind the blood-type diet are simple: different blood types (A, B, AB, and O) evolved at different times in human evolution, and the author believes that each type corresponds to a different food that was prevalent at the time. By his theory, O-types are meat eaters, A types are grain- and vegetable-eaters, and so on.
The reason many people are successful on his diet has nothing to do with their blood types. It has everything to do with the fact that every one of his diets, regardless of the specifics advised for your blood type, invoke several basic facts about food consumption that are the same across all four diets. Those facts are: 1) Food is healthier for you in a whole form, 2) Processing food removes vital nutrients and vitamins, and 3) Any time you pay attention to what you eat, no matter why you’re doing it, you will naturally eat less crap and more good stuff.
The question, for many people, than becomes: if the blood-type thing isn’t what’s keeping X diet from working for me, what is it? The answer is simple. The short version is: your body’s metabolism develops in the womb, so the things your mother ate while you were in utero affect what your body is willing and able to digest easily. If your mom ate lots of carbs, your body prepares for a world that is full of carbs and can’t handle meat. More importantly, if your mom ate foods low in vitamin and mineral content, your body prepared for a world where the vital stuff of life was scarce – which means your body has to horde everything it can get in order to get enough of the right stuff.
Yup – the invention of processed flour and sugar as well as the TV Dinner and Fast Food in the 1950s is what caused the adults of today to have dietary problems. It’s that simple.
How to correct the problem…that’s much harder.
The theory behind the blood-type diet are simple: different blood types (A, B, AB, and O) evolved at different times in human evolution, and the author believes that each type corresponds to a different food that was prevalent at the time. By his theory, O-types are meat eaters, A types are grain- and vegetable-eaters, and so on.
The reason many people are successful on his diet has nothing to do with their blood types. It has everything to do with the fact that every one of his diets, regardless of the specifics advised for your blood type, invoke several basic facts about food consumption that are the same across all four diets. Those facts are: 1) Food is healthier for you in a whole form, 2) Processing food removes vital nutrients and vitamins, and 3) Any time you pay attention to what you eat, no matter why you’re doing it, you will naturally eat less crap and more good stuff.
The question, for many people, than becomes: if the blood-type thing isn’t what’s keeping X diet from working for me, what is it? The answer is simple. The short version is: your body’s metabolism develops in the womb, so the things your mother ate while you were in utero affect what your body is willing and able to digest easily. If your mom ate lots of carbs, your body prepares for a world that is full of carbs and can’t handle meat. More importantly, if your mom ate foods low in vitamin and mineral content, your body prepared for a world where the vital stuff of life was scarce – which means your body has to horde everything it can get in order to get enough of the right stuff.
Yup – the invention of processed flour and sugar as well as the TV Dinner and Fast Food in the 1950s is what caused the adults of today to have dietary problems. It’s that simple.
How to correct the problem…that’s much harder.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
