Dieting style acccording to Blood Type

Hi,

I just discover a new idea about dieting. It is comming from an idea that dieting could be very different according to blood type.

I recently modify my dieting according to my blood type group O.

Group O should avoid Cerals, Beans and Milk diary products, which I did with very good success. bRegarding exercise shorter but more intense activities.

1-Very good regular digestion... every day

2-Higher energy all the day with even reducied Calories intake.

3-Weigth lost more regular (about 0,5 pounds/day)

Any of you would like to exchange on this???

Dieteoctober

The consensus among dietitians, physicians, and nutritional scientists is that the theory is unsupported by scientific evidence.

Dear Anknow,

This is interesting article,

I am physics Engineer with many years in science as a profesionnal researcher, I can tell you that scientific evidence is far from a definition of ____The evidence____.

Also please note the article is saying that rhere is a lack of evidence not rejecting the idea.

Had yoiu try it' It was working fine for me.

I just wonder if any else had try it and what was their own success.

Bye

Dieteoctober

I'm a A+ blood type and I've read that I would do best on a vegetarian diet, which I've been for some time. Since I didn't become a vegetarian to lose weight I'm not so sure what the results would be. Though over the summer I did accomplish a 13 pound weight loss. I'm sure it helps that I'm a vegetarian just because I can't eat really fatty foods.

Regardless of motivation, if you've cut out grains, dairy, and legumes, you're almost certainly on what anyone else would call a more-or-less plain old low-carb diet now.  Combine that with intense but briefer forms of exercise, and you can find out a lot more grounded info on such schemes via searching for terms like "Paleo diet" and "evolutionary fitness".  For example, read Loren Cordain's "The Paleo Diet" and the Eades' "Protein Power Lifeplan".  An advantage to those is that they're supported by real research, not just by made-up fanciful gibberish about blood type .

Original Post by tgpish:

Regardless of motivation, if you've cut out grains, dairy, and legumes, you're almost certainly on what anyone else would call a more-or-less plain old low-carb diet now.  Combine that with intense but briefer forms of exercise, and you can find out a lot more grounded info on such schemes via searching for terms like "Paleo diet" and "evolutionary fitness".  For example, read Loren Cordain's "The Paleo Diet" and the Eades' "Protein Power Lifeplan".  An advantage to those is that they're supported by real research, not just by made-up fanciful gibberish about blood type .

 

 

Dear Tgpish,

I found very interesting the subject on Paleo Diet. I found it so interesting that I boiught a book on the issue.

It says about same diet as for my Blood type O, but regardless the blood type...!

As I am experimenting good success with O type Diet (Weight loss and Energy) I will continue that way.  I am also reading the Book about South Beach Diet...

May be a good source.  From what I have seen in the forums, it seems that surprising our body is a good way to have continuous weight loss...

Lets see..

Thanks again for the valuable infos

Dieteoctober

I'm also blood-type O.... it's the most common type after all .   My daily diet includes beans, cereals and milk (amongst other things) and my preferred exercise is hill-walking and other long-lasting, low-intensity exercises.  Despite following the opposite of what seems to be recommended I've lost and maintained a loss of 50lbs, I'm a healthy weight, have an excellent digestion, no health problems etc.   I would therefore question whether what you're seeing is due to coincidence and/or eating less rather than any kind of causality stemming from blood type.... Because it clearly isn't applying to me and therefore, one would assume, to thousands of others.

The thing exicited me was the change in Energy level, mainly. Weight loss difficult to say...

But feeling better is great. I just ran 4 km w3ithout exeeceding my 120 heart bit rate limit.<

Feeelllllllllll good

dieteoctober, if you like Paleo-style advice, you should love Mark Sisson's "Daily Apple" blog.  I'm attracted to evolutionary arguments too, although I have to say that, as with any belief system, the Paleo community has its share of those unreasonably convinced they're right about everything and that everyone else is wrong .  It's sadly hilarious to see two "Paleo people" arguing interminably about, say, whether cashews are or aren't "pure" Paleo fare.  The plain fact is that most of what we think we know about how our ancestors lived when the vast bulk of our genes were selected is educated guesswork.

In my own experience, all non-insane dieting schemes work for losing weight, provided you follow them exactly as instructed.  And I believe that's why, for example, the "blood type" scheme can appear to be successful:  it's actually a collection of several different dieting schemes, from which you pick one based on your blood type.  I have no reason to suspect it would be any less successful if, for example, you picked one of the diets based on your astrological sign, or eye color, or musical tastes ... or simply rolled dice to pick one.

For any given dieting scheme, some people will have a much easier time with it than others (for example, some people can't tolerate cutting carbs, while others thrive on that -- and, no, there's no evidence that blood type has anything to do with that), and if you were lucky enough that the "blood type" gimmick gave you a scheme that works well for you, that's great!

Keep on trying lots of things ("surprising your body" happens automatically then.), keep the ones that work for you as long as they keep working, and forget the rest.  It's easy .

Dear Tgpish,

Many thanks for so much good advice.

I am not a groopie of Paleo or Blood-Type Dieting, I do embrass some of their theory and use it as a tool for my health.

As you say I will keep going with same diete untill it may prooves not the best and Change for another one to surprise my body, I think it is imprtant.

I also think that changing dieting is something as breaking the boring routine of same diet and food for long period of time.

Thanks again

Changing routines is definitely a Paleo idea .  Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint post, from earlier this year, is an excellent intro to many such ideas.  Variety will serve you well!  I have to agree our genes were selected for anything but the modern life of playing out the same routine every day, from when we eat, sleep, and exercise, to how we do all those things.

I bet you'd enjoy Arthur De Vany's essay on the topic (click here):  he's a mathematical economist who relates the idea of consciously varying what we do to specific models of random events following power-law distributions.  I don't usually recommend this essay because "the math" tends to scare people off, but with your background in physics you should find that part of it easy to follow.

Hi Tgpish'

I order the book on Paleo Dieting and read first 30 pages. I am going to follow those rules for the next few weeks. It's making lots of sens for a Physics Engineer as me.

Many thanks Tgpish you are so helpfull.

DieteOctober

I looked at your pictures.  Are you sure you didn't accidentally label them incorrectly?  The 287 lbs picture looks thinner than the 212 lbs picture.

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Dear GPM55,

Many thanks for the remark. I try to correct it and after reading your bio it encourage me to do so...

If you want to go to see it, we are close to similar.

Bye