Detox effects, but no energy increase??

[Kingston]

Originally Posted by geekchic9

Kingston:

I'm saddened that you seemed to have based your entire research about the Genotype Diet on a few Wikipedia articles. That doesn't satisfy my tastes in scientific rigor. Go to the library, check out his book, and read it and the scientific studies on which he based his research. Go straight to the source! Then, if you still don't like his books, that's fine -- switch to something else. At least you would have known that you gave his ideas a fair shot.

My taste for scientific rigor means that I get facts from both enthousiasts and critics, and start weighting and judging them against each other and my own prior knowledge. I can't learn from the critics by reading his book, and I don't need to read the book to learn that he says I should not eat wheat. I continue to get more facts until I feel I can make an informed decision. So not just the Wikipedia entry, but also these:

Book Review: Eat Right 4 Your Type
Eat right for 4 your Blood Type - another Diet Fad?
Dr. Arpad Pusztai Talks about Dr. D'Adamo's Blood Type Diet Theory

The 'Blood Type Diet:' Fact or Fiction?

I think those links are very informative. Like I said, the writers are not neutral themselves, but that is ok as long as I just look at their argument. I'm interested in what you think of these links, especially Dr. Pusztai's answers.

You could be right that I judged to fast. So to be sure, I will do a short no-wheat-no-nuts trial. If his theory is correct, than I should feel much better within a few days. Does he say anything in his book about when you can feel the effects?

I'm not sure about everything, but right now my money is not on D'Adamo. I have to rely on experts for scientific info about nutrition. I'm convinced often, like about trans fats. A clear story about clogged arteries, with pictures of molucules. Or something like a daily minimum of one gram of protein for every kilo bodyweight and twice that for athletes. Things like that I believe and accept. It's just that my alarm bells ring when someone says I have been poisoning myself with wheat, just because I'm type O.

There are so many diets and I can try only a few. How did you decide on whom to believe?