Originally Posted by Jennihul  Actually, D'Adamo says that grains are not good for type A so it makes perfect sense that you are feeling better off them. Only very certain ones and not in large quantities. Are you a secretor or non-secretor? Most of the so called "conflicts" in D'Adamo's claims come from people not paying attention to that important factor.
I have not a shred of disrespect for any doctor who modifies his plan or his ideals as new information becomes available or one that hunts down anomalies in his own research and has the balls to retract his own data. Dr D'Adamo is a Naturopathic Physician and researcher which means he has as much, if not more, education than an MD, just a different title. MD groupies will undoubtedly disagree but MDs, their drugs and actions in America kill more people than any other cause of death so I'd be wary of worshipping them or their methods 100%.
I actually have less respect for docs that think what they learned in med school is the end-all, be-all of medicine and that how silly it must be to think that anything could have evolved after they graduated. Yet, so many of our country's MDs think just that way and treat their patients with less than a 10 minute medical history. Nowadays, they are almost inextricably beholden to profit-seeking drug companies and the financial whims of insurance providers. This is not a good combination for the health of America. Mind you, the conventional medicine industry puts food on my table and has for the last 25 years. I am not just making this up.
If conventional nutritionists like Fredrick J. Stare, M.D. were any good at their jobs and working from correct ideals, would we be so sick in this country? So obese? So cancer-ridden? Would heart disease dominate our lives as we grow old? Their plan, and the atrociously designed food pyramids, have killed more people than all the wars and car accidents put together.
John Robbins wants everyone to eat fruit and vegetables. What about the people that have tried and can't survive in a peak state that way? His diet is healthy, but his ideals are philosophical, not based on research. Dude is a businessman and an author, not a researcher. Not a doctor. That's not to diminish the total respect I have for him but he "feels" the world would be a better place if everyone was just like him: a vegetarian. Not exactly a well-researched opinion.
The blood type diet is not an unresearched fad. If you think that, you really didn't read his books or, like Dr Stare, you have a vested interest in things having to do with $$$ and the food and drug industry and less to do with actual data. The problem with Dr Stare and other conventional nutritionists and MDs is that, if D'Adamo is right, and he is, he makes a total mockery of everything Dr Stare makes money doing. Sucks for him.
Peter D'Adamo continued his father's life-long research so the diet in fact is so well-researched, for decades longer than most diets people try, that his book Live Right 4 Your Type is a very very boring book to read. I'm used to reading peer journals and I could barely get through it. But you don't need to read "Live Right.." to be successful at this diet.
You could say I am the poster child for his diet. As a type O/Hunter, my direct DNA comes from the oldest humans on Earth. I am the least evolved to live well in this day and age. When I veer, I suffer. Greatly. When I comply, I am vibrant and healthy. I've tested allergic to over 25 foods and every single one of them was on the AVOID list for my blood type. My type O mother as well. None were on the neutral or beneficial. Those odds are astronomical to be merely a coincidence. He is also correct with my exercise needs for type O. If I try other forms of exercise, I gain weight easily. If I comply, I am mentally and physically super well.
D'Adamo claims that type A people who try to lose weight on a diet like Atkins will be unhealthy and suffer gallbladder issues. My type A sister refused my advice and within six months, had her gallbladder out after trying Atkins. He claims that type A people are more prone to diabetes, arthritis, obesity and mucous formation if non-compliant. My dad who is type A is extremely non-compliant and is now diabetic, obese, has arthritis of his spine so bad he cannot bend and is constantly coughing up phlegm.
D'Adamo claims type A people are more prone to cancer. My non-compliant sister had an endoscopy done and has hundreds of stomach polyps that are baffling her MDs. They each have the potential to become cancerous.
My coworker who is type B has chicken, which is an avoid for B, nearly every night for her dinner and when she is non-compliant, she ends up on Prozac for mood swings and depression. When she tried a variation with no chicken, she didn't need her meds anymore.
Some people say "this diet isn't for everyone" when discussing the latest fad to come down the pike. But the Blood Type Diet and the new more specific variation, the GenoType diet literally ARE for everyone. I consider it a gift to humanity. I'm glad I received it.
Jennifer |