diet - blood type

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Hi, I am forwarding my friend's opinion with this type of diet. I think it

mayhelp you. He always does a thorough background research so I think it worths

it.

Stania

Hi,

I have read the ER4YT book with enthusiasm a year ago, I still remember almost

all foods grouped

into the " highly

beneficial " , " neutral " and " avoid " categories of all four blood groups. I have

read lots about it -

positive and negative. I tried

the diet for 4 months, I had the feeling it works for the first few weeks. But

later I felt worse.

I reintroduced the evil tomatoes, peppers and even potatoes after those 4 months

(blood type A) and

- surprisingly - I felt

much much better.

It seems I am an agriculturist as to the metabolic diet, which should be near

what D'Adamo

recommends for A's. But

there is some difference. Actually, when you are an agriculturist and stop

eating tomatoes, peppers,

cabbage etc. because of

its lectins, you may eat less veggies in the end - that is what happened to me.

I feel great on

veggies. I feel far better on those

alleged " lectin-dangerous " foods than on " highly beneficial " dried figs or

raisins.

There may be such a complexity of problems, that if you fit everybody into one

diet, or everybody

into four blood type diets,

it is still too little diets to work for 75 percent.

If someone is an A and has candida, dried figs won't be " highly beneficial " . I

may write countless

of conditions where other

factors will be much more important than the lectin issue. Even if the lectins

may be a problem, a

thousand of other problems

may wait in line to be solved first because they may be more important.

Once, a critic of ER4YT pointed out, that D'Adamo's lectin theory is based

on experiments of

different lectins and

different blood than that running inside us. First, the blood samples are

outside the body and

second, the lectins are outside a

raw living plant. How can D'Adamo be sure the blood, immune system,

whatever, will behave the

same way in the test

tube as it behaves in our veins? How can he be sure that there are no coping

mechanisms in our

bodies that deal with the

lectins... Etc. etc. There are so many things that can be said and that stayed

unanswered in the

book and on his own BB.

Even with the present knowledge of ER4YT theory, the book could have been

written much better.

This does not mean there is no connection between blood types and health. I am

open to anything, but

for now, at the

present state of knowledge about the theory, I would personally put not much

emphasis in that it is

the diet to save the world.

But why not try it for those who believe..

Be all well, those who believe, and those who do not, those who feel there is

just a little bit

truth, and everybody else.

Karel