blood type dietAccording to the researchers James and Peter D’Adamo good or poor assimilation of food is determined by our blood type.

So much so that in each group-A, B, AB and O, there are foods that are harmful, some beneficial and others neutral. Moreover, they say that many diseases may be due to the mere consumption of foods not suitable for our blood type. Others, however, help us heal. Even claim that it is the reason many people fail to lose weight when put on a diet.

In sum, Dr. Landsteiner discovered the reason why some people died after a blood transfusion and some not: their blood were not compatible. Since then we know that:

* People with type 0 blood are “universal donor”. That is, can donate blood to any that have other types of blood but can only receive their own.
* Type AB people are “universal recipient”, ie they can receive blood from everyone else but can only donate to their own kind.
* Persons of type A blood can receive the same type and group 0 but not of the types B and AB. And you can donate to those of the same type and type AB. And,
“People of type B blood can receive the same type and group 0, but not those of types A and AB. And you can donate to those of the same type and type AB.

This discovery would Karl Landsteiner rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930.
I should add that Landsteiner discovered three more antigens (M, N and P) similar to the antigens of groups A and B but, unlike them, their presence in red blood cells is not the existence in normal human blood natural agglutinins . And then another in 1940, with Alexander Wiener-Salomon would baptize as D antigen or Rh factor (so called because found in the serum of rabbits immunized with blood from a monkey of the species Macacus Rhesus). This antigen is of importance when the mother is not the antigen and the father did it in the second pregnancy of Rh-specific antibodies developed by the mother can cross the placenta and cause abortion or hemolytic disease in newborns who are pursuing with jaundice: the fearsome erythroblastosis fetalis. End by saying that later come to discover up to 42 different antigens on red blood cells although its incidence appears to be significantly smaller and therefore not going to enter deeply into it.

I would add, finally, that the available data indicate, so that approximately 40% of Europeans have blood type 0, 40% of type A, 15% of type B and about 5% type AB. รง

The Contribution of James D’Adamo

As you might appreciate the significance of antigens is evident in that it causes immediate reactions in the body. Well, almost three decades ago a naturopath named James D’Adamo realized dietary treatments advised patients not getting the same results and wondered what might result. Trained in the naturalistic school, his experience with patients led him to realize that mostly vegetarian diet while you feel great to some people and their health improved others just did not seem to effect them and some even resented them and worse. That surprised him taking him to the obvious conclusion that not everyone will feel good the same type of food. I sensed that as the blood was the main source of nutrition for the body’s response could be in it. So he decided to investigate and along many years later took notes so you can compare them and look for possible common patterns. And it would be so simple but persistent manner as I would realize that the feeding was associated with different blood types. He noted, for example, that blood type A people respond poorly to indulge in meat protein diets but well to the rich in vegetable protein. And those same people or the milk or milk derivatives were going well. Moreover, it also improved with mild exercises like yoga and dynamic hard while they produce discomfort. In contrast, people with blood type 0 people feel great meat and more strenuous exercise. And concluded that, in effect, saying “what is food for a man may be poison to another” contained a great truth.

All these observations were collect James D’Adamo in a work entitled The food of a man (One Man’s Food) that would see the light in 1980.

It would, however his son Peter, who also study Naturopathy while the John Bastar College, Seattle (USA) – which already establish that connection. And he did it first discovered that two of the major diseases of the stomach-ulcer tank and stomach cancer-the focus was more on specific blood groups. The ulcer in people with type 0 of cancer in type A.

Data accumulated until finally lead him to conclude that the blood type predisposes individuals to a particular food type and largely distinct from those of other types. And even that predisposes to a disease more than others. Not only that: also discovered that health depends, to a much greater extent than people imagine, food. This means that there are foods that act positively in the bodies of people with a certain type of blood while other people are bad. And not only that his opinion does not conform to nutritional blood type you have is one of the main causes of overweight or obesity of many people … and because of that fail to lose weight when they try. One thing that would get if they stopped eating the food injurious to your blood type (remember the reader that we have already published in the magazine several reports on the difficulty of weight loss involves eating foods to which you are sensitive or intolerant and now this can be determined fairly accurately through analytical.

Having said this should be clarified at the outset that the author makes clear that these connections are not radical. That is, not all agencies of the same type of people are intolerant of all foods and the degree of sensitivity is equal in all the food to which they are intolerant. The general guidance offered after his years of clinical study are therefore indicative only. Keep this in mind. In any case, if you want to delve into this subject know that you will find the conclusions of Peter D’Adamo published in his book The blood groups and nutrition (Ed. J. Vergara).

Why is this so?

Father and son, obviously, would wonder why they react so differently about the blood of individuals with regard to the other and what should be the apparent conflict between them in some cases. His conclusion-that can be debated-is that each blood type is the result of a moment of human evolution itself. According to them, type 0 blood group, the most ancient and widespread, would have more than 40,000 years old and come from the Cro-Magnon men, whose power was based on hunting and hence in proteins meat.

The next to appear would have been the type A-between 25,000 and 10,000 years, and appeared with the first agricultural societies whose diet was based on the consumption of cereals and vegetables, coming especially from Asia and the Middle East.
The type B come from the Himalayan mountains rising for about 15,000 and 10,000 years being typical of the nomadic inhabitants of the Asiatic steppes.
In terms of type AB have emerged from the mix of Caucasian (A) and Mongolian (B).

Well, D’Adamo for the reaction of each blood type the blood should keep a “memory cells” that “remembers” its ancestral feeding.
But why the blood reacts to certain foods as if they were dangerous enemies to beat? Peter D’Adamo says that is due to food lectins. What are lectins? For a class of proteins whose antigens also cause immune system activation and, consequently, the blood agglutination phenomenon of which we spoke at first. Some can cause instant death in the presence of trace quantities to make red blood clots that clog arteries. This is the case of ricin containing the seeds of castor (Ricinus communis), but fortunately most of the lectins from our diet are not as dangerous.

And the important thing is that each blood type reacts differently to them. That is, there always lectins widespread food-speak, that are rejected by people of one blood type while not the case with others for whom they are even beneficial.

In addition, eating foods containing lectins incompatible with our blood type can cause various ailments and prevent us reduce weight if overweight or obese. And how to know which foods are intolerant? Then using a food intolerance test (I refer the reader to already published articles about it) or submitting to the INDICATIONS named Test. It is an analysis that calculates the elimination through the urine to indicate a substance’s chemical group of indoles is eliminated through the feces and urine when the gastrointestinal tract and the liver unable to digest the lectins a food. Obviously, when people eat foods high in lectins incompatible with your blood group is observed, an increased disposal of indicating to analyze the urine. For Peter D’Adamo, if the test gives a value of 0 or 1 no problem, if you check 2 or 3 there is a problem and if the figure is 3 or 4 can be considered the situation critical.

Food Beneficial, Neutral, or advise

In short, Peter D’Adamo ranks foods in relation to the four blood groups in beneficial, neutral, and discouraged. The first son-in each blood group-those who develop a role as well by ensuring optimal nutritional antioxidant activity, antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic. We could say they are “medical foods. The latter carry out a purely nutritional role. And third are those that contain indigestible substances to individuals of a particular blood group specific lectins due to their defensive reaction by causing the immune system that gathers to then remove them.

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