Re: The Blood Type Hype Diet

[Guest guest]

Mel Siff wrote:

> Would you use voodoo in its primitive form or would you dress it up in some

> modernised guise and keep your reputation intact? When you apply 'snake oil'

method

> like that, do you have to rely on a great deal of cognitive dissonance to

somehow

> reconcile your training as a doctor and your practice of pseudotherapy? Since

you seem

> very supportive of the Blood Type diet, you must have some definite scientific

reasons for

> doing so - please share them with us, as I find your approach very intriguing

and dissonant

> for a medic. >

Dr. Siff:

I said i will use it if necessary, remember i dont start with it, but i must

admit the few times you try and it helps then you must be aware of it. I ask

my patients what blood type they are in their initial visit and if i dont get

results with " research " oriented methods then i will try anything that will

not do harm. Remember Dr. Siff research starts with something that is not

proven and you want to prove, but sometimes research is not done becasue no

money, but because there are no research on this or that doenst mean it

works. I work with people and no labs, so i must choose when do i use the

research and when cant i.

serrano

ohio

[Guest guest]

Realizing that there is no scientific proof behind this or many

other methods, I would like to congratulate you, Serrano, for

being a medical doctor who is willing to experiment with unproven or

unsubstantiated methods.

People on ST like to know the reasons and scientific findings behind

things; there is nothing wrong with that because it helps understand

why something works. It's wonderful to see the discussion that is

taking place on this diet and others in that regard versus how

things play out in the real world. As we all know, the two don't

always agree.

At one end of the spectrum you have the published scientific

research and at the other end the people who don't fit the mold. So

what do you do with them? A doctor who will keep trying different

things is a Godsend.

Could it be that some of this inability to shed fat is

psychological? Suddenly you give someone a diet with a name that

for whatever reason rings their chimes. It's not any better than

anything else but it works. Telling someone that a diet has been

set up specifically for their blood type (which everyone

understands) might make them feel they have something that will

finally work. Like any other method, it's the calorie reduction and

exercise that's doing the trick, but at that point, in the clinical

setting, who cares why?

In reading through an article sent to me by Bob Hettinga and then

looking more of this up on the net to better understand it, genetics

could definitely be a cause in obesity. There are hormones that

control appetite. They don't work terribly well in some people, or

at least we don't think they do. There appears to be some broken

link between the hypothalamus and the nervous system but no one

knows what it is as yet. Of course Nature may not agree as 10,000

years ago, a slow metabolism was a very good thing to have. Thus

these genes have been passed on because the survivors were the ones

who procreated. It's only a very short time in a very few places

that humans have had more food than they know what to do with.

That's not enough time for us to evolve. If everyone continues to

have plenty of food for the next 10,000 years, possibly Nature will

speed up our metabolisms or those with the fast metabolisms will be

the ones who live to procreate. It's a slow business by human time

perceptions.

Rosemary Vernon, Editor

Dolfzine On-Line Fitness, Inc.®

A Not-For-Profit Foundation

www.dolfzine.com

Marina del Rey, CA

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