How To Eat Right For Your Blood Type

Peter D’Adamo is a very famous neuropathic medic and wrote Eat Right for Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight.

He is a firm believer in the fact that blood types are crucial for our health and well-being and that certain food is harmful to one blood type but helpful to other. Also, he claims that even the manner of exercising can be closely connected to your blood type, or on the contrary, your blood type can cause you some illness.

Some experts do not agree with this method of nutrition but since his book was published, 7 million sold copies speak for themselves.

How Do Blood Type Diets Works?

D’Adamo has a theory that says that every person has his own way of responding to food, and that is closely connected to our blood type. Lectins (carbohydrate-binding proteins), in his opinion, can attach to different blood type in a different way. It can be extremely harmful for your health if certain lectins contact certain blood type.

Dr. D’Adamo thoroughly explains these changes and side-effects in his book, still, his main goal is to analyze which foods are appropriate for each blood type and in which amount should they be consumed.

The Four Basic Blood Types:

1. BLOOD TYPE A:

Twenty thousand years ago, when agriculture was developed, this blood type had the change of a lifetime. This means that blood type A should concentrate on having a vegetarian way of life- the people are also known as “the agrarians”.

People with type A blood should avoiding eating meat, and eat fruits and vegetables, beans and legumes, and whole grains. To be more precise, organic and fresh foods, because as D’Adamo explained, these people have a sensitive immune system.

2. BLOOD TYPE 0:

Being one of the oldest blood types, dating since 30 000 years ago, it requires a protein-filled nutrition, unlike any of the other blood types. The people are also known as “the hunters”.

These people should focus on eating more high-protein foods, such as lean meat, poultry, fish, and vegetables, and reduce the consumption of grains, beans, and dairy products. D’Adamo recommends different supplements that will assist in cases of stomach ache, and other issues these people usually have.

3. BLOOD TYPE B:

The people commonly known as “the nomads” possess the quality to be quite adaptable to dairy products and have the most versatile digestive system of all. This blood type first appeared ten thousand years ago.

People in this group should avoid corn, wheat, buckwheat, lentils, tomatoes, peanuts, and sesame seeds. According to D’Adamo, chicken may also cause certain problems. He recommends eating green veggies, eggs, certain meats, and low-fat dairy products.

4. BLOOD TYPE AB:

Since this is the most recently developed blood type, their diet varies between Blood type B and A. Because this blood type is only a thousand years old, the people are called “the enigmas”.

Diet based on tofu, seafiid, dairy, and green veggies. D’Adamo explains that these people often struggle with stomach acid, and should avoid caffeine, alcohol, and smoked meat delicacies.

If you do not know your blood type, your medic or physician can easily determine it for you.

FOODS RECOMMENDED FOR EACH BLOOD TYPE:

 BLOOD TYPE A:

Consume: vegetables, whole grains instead of small ones (pasta or bread). Also, consume berries, figs, avocados, apples and nectarines. Proteins that are allowed are nuts and soy.

Stay Away From: Any kind of meat is not recommended as well as dairy products and kidney beans.

BLOOD TYPE 0:

Consume: Red meat, poultry (chicken/turkey), seafood and other proteins are highly recommended. When it comes to vegetables kale, spinach, kelp and broccoli are a good choice.

Stay Away From: legumes (beans, peanuts, lentils), dairy and egg products, as well as wheat and grains.

BLOOD TYPE B:

Consume: fruits, green vegetables, certain grains, red meat, fish, turkey.

Stay Away From: seeds of any kind, chicken, peanuts, lentils and corn. Also try to avoid buckwheat.

BLOOD TYPE AB:

Consume: turkey, tofu, seafood and fish. Also, vegetables, beans, watermelon, figs, apples and bananas and legumes are a good option.

Stay Away From: buckwheat, corn, red meat (you may experience stomach acid). Be careful with consuming too much alcohol and caffeine.

Organic food applies to all blood types but a nutritionist can help you expand your diet if necessary. Food groups generally are strict, so you if you are dieting you don’t have to worry about calories. Also, get informed about the positive and negative influences of your food choice. If you are dieting as a family, but have different blood types, the Atkins diet is the most recommended, because it avoids entire food groups.

Nutrition in accordance with your blood type can be fit for one person, but unsuitable for other. To get a grip of the whole concept, reading Dr. D’Adamo’s book may be very helpful. Your nutritionist or medic can also help in giving you proper advice for any change you want to make, especially if you have any medical condition. 

 

Get Rid Of a Headache And Lower High Blood Pressure With This Simple Natural Remedy

If you have strong and unbearable headache or high blood pressure, try this natural remedy that will eliminate the pain in just 20 minutes.

You need some gauze or fine cotton fabric that you will later use as a compress. Fold the gauze in 8 layers, and the compress should match your forehead.

Dissolve 2 level teaspoons of salt in 8.5 oz/ 250 ml of hot water (60-70°C). Now you have 8% salt solution.

Headache is often caused by the food you eat, like diet soda, alcohol and others.

Wash your forehead, ears and neck with some warm water. Soak the gauzes in the salt solution, squeeze out the excess and apply the compresses on your forehead, neck and around the ears. It is better if you lay down while the compresses do their job.

You will soon feel some relieve, but leave the compresses for a while. Lay for another 20 minutes. After you remove the compresses, rinse your neck, ears and forehead.

High salt intake often causes swelling and high blood pressure, but salt compresses have the opposite effect. They affect your health condition through the skin and stimulate the elimination of excess fluids from the body. You can treat swollen feet in the similar way.

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Fat in Food: The Truth about Coconut Oil

Does coconut oil live up to the health claims?

David Schardt • December 3, 2014

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“Miraculous.” “Amazing.” “Life Saving.”

For some reason, people love coconut oil.Really love it.

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Most of the affection isn’t directed toward conventional coconut oil, which is added to some candies, coffee creamers, movie theater popcorn, and other foods.

Instead, the web has gone gaga over “virgin” oil, which is made by puréeing coconut meat and gently heating it. (To make conventional oil, coconut is cooked and treated with chemicals like hexane to extract the oil.) Here’s what the evidence shows.

Claim: Coconut oil can help you lose weight by speeding up metabolism.

The Facts: Dr. Oz thinks it can. He callscoconut oil “the miracle fat that fights fat.” Yet the only study that tested whether it helps people shed pounds came up empty.

In 2009, a master’s degree student in Brazil gave 40 obese women either coconut oil or soybean oil and asked them to cook with two tablespoons of the oil every day. After three months, the women given coconut oil didn’t weigh any less—and had no smaller waists—than those given soybean oil.

However, the published paper tagged the trivial drop in average waist size (from 39 inches to 38.5 inches) in the coconut oil users as “statistically significant.” It wasn’t.

Yet that’s all osteopath Joseph Mercola needed to shout about “The Amazing Oil That Trims Women’s Waistlines” on mercola.com (where he will happily sell you coconut oil).

Researchers have had more success using oil made entirely of medium-chain triglycerides, or MCTs. (Coconut oil is about 60 percent MCTs.) People metabolize MCTs differently from the long-chain triglycerides found in most other oils.

“MCTs are transported directly from the intestinal tract to the liver, where some of them are burned off as fuel and raise the metabolic rate slightly,” explains Marie-Pierre St-Onge, an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Obesity Research Center. How slightly?

“The increase amounts to about an extra 60 calories a day for someone who consumes one to two tablespoons of MCTs a day,” says St-Onge. “It’s likely much less with coconut oil, which is only about half MCTs, but nobody knows. The research hasn’t been done yet.”

In several small studies, dieters who ate one to two tablespoons of MCT oil a day for three to four months lost about one more pound a month than dieters who ate other oils.

That’s partly due to the small rise in metabolic rate and partly due to MCT oil’s modest impact on appetite.

“We estimate that the dieters ate about 40 fewer calories a day on the MCT diets,” says St-Onge. Overall, MCT oil leads to “a small amount of weight loss that can gradually add up,” she notes. “But it’s not a magic bullet.”

And it’s not cheap. MCT oil costs about five times more than other oils.

Claim: Coconut oil is good for the heart.

The Facts: Researchers haven’t looked at whether people who replace other fats with coconut oil suffer fewer heart attacks or strokes. But they have tested what coconut oil does to LDL (“bad”) and HDL (“good”) cholesterol.

In a study from Malaysia (a major coconut-oil exporter), researchers fed young people diets that got 20 percent of their calories from either coconut oil or olive oil. After five weeks, LDL was 8 percent higher on the coconut oil diet. HDL was 7 percent higher. But HDL may not matter.

“Raising LDL cholesterol clearly increases the risk of heart disease, but we’re no longer sure that raising HDL cholesterol lowers risk,” says Dutch fats expert Martijn Katan, of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

“Drugs that raise HDL, for example, haven’t prevented heart attacks as we expected. So coconut oil, which raises both LDL and HDL, may not be as healthy for the heart as an oil like canola or soy, which lowers LDL and has little effect on HDL.”

Claim: Coconut oil can protect the brain from dementia.

The Facts: It’s not likely…despite Joseph Mercola’s claims (“Four tablespoons of this ‘brain food’ may prevent Alzheimer’s”).

No good studies have tested whether coconut oil can prevent or treat Alzheimer’s or other dementias. So why might coconut or MCT oil help?

In Alzheimer’s, the brain loses its ability to use glucose, but it may still be able to use compounds called ketones. “And the liver can convert MCTs into ketones,” explains pharmacologist Alok Sharma, of MCPHS University in New Hampshire. But that doesn’t mean that MCTs or MCT oil can help, adds Sharma.

For one thing, consuming coconut or MCT oil doesn’t raise ketone levels in the brain high enough, says Richard Veech, a senior investigator with the National Institutes of Health.

The only large trial that gave Alzheimer’s patients MCTs or a placebo reported a benefit in those without ApoE4, a version of a gene that increases Alzheimer’s risk. But the study, which was funded by the MCTs’ man¬ufacturer, was riddled with irregularities.

Claim: Coconut oil fights bacteria, as well as viruses like HIV.

The Facts: Howstuffworks.com doesn’t mince words: coconut oil is “an ideal way to prevent infections.” Don’t bet on it.

Coconut oil has never gone up against viruses or bacteria in a well-designed study in people. In mice, it flunked.

Sources: Lipids 44: 593, 2009; J. Nutr. 131: 2853, 2001; J. Atheroscler. Thromb. 10: 290, 2003; Metabolism 56: 985, 2007;Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 87: 621, 2008; Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 94: 1451, 2011; Nutr. Metab. 6: 31, 2009.

If you want to learn more about which fats are healthy and which don’t live up to their claims, check out our post on The Truth about Canola Oil.

 

Other relevant links:

• Studies show that coconut oil raises cholesterol levels.  See: Is Coconut Oil Good for Your Heart?
• Can coconut oil help you lose weight?  See: Coconut Oil and Weight Loss
• Total fats and oils have climbed fairly steadily since 1970.  See: Fats and Oils in the Changing American Diet

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