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.

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