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Has anyone heard about Dr. D'adamo's Blood type diet? I'm blood type

A, and my husband is type 0. According to a website, he's supposed to

be eating a mainly meat and low wheat diet. I'm supposed to be a

vegetarian.

I realize it's the opinion of these particular doctors who wrote the

book, and it should be taken with a grain of salt. On that website I

saw a photo the author posted with his wife at a steakhouse, and it

said something like, " who knew we were eating correctly according to

our blood type " . And there were claims that Dr. Atkins (low carb guy)

had heart disease. Maybe their findings were tainted by what they

wanted to find. I would post which website I saw the information on,

but they took some of the stuff off of it that I refer to it since I

read it, although I had kept some of the information in a file.

I also saw a book written in the 60's or 70's called, " Diet for a

Small Planet " , discussing different ways amino acids combine to form

complete proteins, and which vegetables, seeds, nuts and grains

contain which amino acids, with very complicated names.

I have a friend with type " 0 " blood, and she said when she eats a lot

of meat she gets sick.

OTOH, I suspect people's blood types can change. I had read

documentation from when I was a child that I was type " B " . There was

a university (of Arizona?) site that said sometimes the protein on

cells of children are not stable and that their blood types can change.

I don't know--I want to " body build " , and I need to lower my body fat.

I lost weight a few years ago, and have kept it off, and wouldn't

mind losing ten more pounds, or increasing the muscle and staying the

same weight for my height--120 lbs at 5'5 1/2 " . We have dumbbells and

a total gym type machine ( " sensible gym, from Seattle Trading Co. or

something), and I try to do that.

I was just wondering what people think about balanced eating, as in

how do you all do it? I try to make enough meat in our meals for my

husband. When I was in college, I went through a time period where I

may have well been a vegetarian, and I was ok. I don't want to get

sick or make him sick, though.

I run more now than I ever did. According to that bloodtype diet

website's former information, I'm supposed to play golf and do yoga.

My husband is supposed to be doing cardio stuff. I usually go through

times when I have to let my ankle heal from being twisted though,

since first twisting it twenty years ago.

Maybe that website was just a bunch of hooey. It was interesting to

see a different viewpoint, though.

BTW, I am a mother of three, stay-at-home mom, sometimes substitute

elementary school teacher. Nice to " meet " you all.

Marie in TX

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