Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type

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hkbecky

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Hi Cathe,

Today, I met with a biochemist / sports therapist / nutritioninst / trainer. I felt like I'd been plateauing and wanted a professional to help me lose those last few inches of stubborn fat.

What he told me completely contradicted everything I'd ever read or known about diet and exercise.

He strongly advocates eating the right foods for your blood type will be beneficial health-wise and the side effect is automatic weight and fat loss. He works out only once a month and he's only got 10% bodyfat. He looks like he's in great shape with strong muscle tone and that lean athletic look. He says he did it all with diet.

He also took a look at my legs (in another post I've had problems with my knees and soles of my feet)and knew where my problems were. He also suggested I stop step workouts and replace it with therapy to alleviate my leg pain.

With all due respect, I love your workouts and they challenge me more than any other DVD out there. But he seems to think that the high impact step workouts are doing me more harm than good.

Is there any truth or validity to what he's saying? He comes highly recommended by many respectable people I know, is featured in fitness magazines in Hong Kong and he claims to have a 100% success rate with his diet philosophy.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

thanks!
Becky
 
hi becky NOT cathe(obviously LOL),BUT IMO anybody that has to boast and push THEIR idea on you makes me nervous. he might be right or wrong but i think its what works for you. while his eat right for you blood type might work for him or even you it might not work for everybody. so for him to tell you to toss every other idea out the window is just a disrepectful act towards other profressional in the industry.

as for exercising, i agree not to do high impact ALL the time but its good to challenge yourself. without challenges how would we apprietiate the rewards of hard work. WORKING OUT ONCE A MONTH, yeah i wish that was possible LOL, he might do a traditional style workout but keeps an active lifestyle(sports, hiking etc etc).

i don't know the way it sounds, its like he is to pushy about what his ideals are and that usually makes me run the other way. other then that, he might be right and it might work for you, but "DIET" should be more of an eating lifestyle rather then throwing foods to the side. when i searched this before it told me to not eat pork, well needless to say i never tried the diet LOL. gimme my center cut grilled pork shop with my side of greens!!!!! :p

kassia

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"And do what thee wilt as long as ye harm none"
 
Becky,

Did you see Dr. D'Adamo (the doctor that wrote the eat right book)? When I was pregnant with my second child I bought the book for weight loss after giving birth. While it helped and the book really did jump start me to eating super healthy foods, I really don't think that you should eliminate foods from your diet because someone is telling you that they are wrong for your blood type. My blood type says that I would highly benefit from eating venison and buffalo. To me, that sounds really gross.

Good luck with your decision.

Lea
 
Hi,

Yes, I just bought the book 'Cook Right For your Type'. It's the follow-up to "Eat Right For your Type". It has over 200 recipes based on my blood type that I can cook and make at home. Checking it out now.

I agree that at first I thought this 'diet' sounded a bit fishy. But after starting the book, some parts of it actually make sense.

I'm not crazy about cutting regular staples out of my diet, especially when they are known to be 'healthy foods' ie: strawberries, wheat & grains, beans etc. I'm going to try it, just to see if it really works. It's not a 'diet' per se. But a way of life, sort of. It doesn't tell you to 'never' eat it again, just to make better choices.


He made a good analogy. Consider your body a Ferrari (or insert your dream car here). It will run much better on premium fuel rather than diesel. Would you rather be feeding your body the good stuff or the bad stuff? Since certain foods react differently to different systems, some foods which are beneficial to some bodies, may act like poison in others. This is their philosophy.

We'll see, I'm not sure how long I can last, but they say you'll see immediate results. I'll keep everyone posted!

thanks!
Becky
 
Oooh, anything that tells you to cut out whole grains, beans and strawberries I'd be highly suspect of. Whole grains and beans are such staples of a good healthy diet that cutting them out raises all sorts of alarm bells.

I think you're better off following something like "Body for Life" which is much more balanced and a lot of people on the boards have had success with it. But that's my opinion. You need to do what feels right for you.
 
Hi Becky - I read it and followed up with a few docs, registered dieticians and nutritionists about it. The bottom line from their perspective is that there is not much evidence to back up the theory right now, but they didn't really dismiss it out of hand.

I agree that the categories are rather sweeping and I couldn't follow them in whole. Having said that, one thing I have noticed over time is that I cannot do whole grains - even my beloved steel cut oats. When I eat grains, I gain weight or at the very least get really bloated - and I am an "O". Tracie Long is a supporter of this theory. I also cannot imagine, as this guy told you, anyone only working out once a month - for health reasons that seems odd.

I've read and tried all the various eating theories. You've got to find what works for you. I'm getting my best results with a relatively new program called Cinch. Good luck in your quest - it ain't easy!

Lorrie

Pain is temporary - quitting lasts forever
Candace Grasso, CC-V-6
 
Hi, Becky,

I had this guy try to push this diet on me too while telling me that all the other diets out there are either bad for me or didn't work. So I looked some reviews about the diet up on google. If I were you, I'd do the same. If I remember right, there were quite a few people who said that the "evidence" to back this up was incorrect. I personally am just trying to eat clean and healthy. I look at it this way, there are TONS of people out there who DON'T "eat right for their blood type" and they are healthy and look great! Good luck with your choice!

Chrissy
 
The "Eat Right for you Blood Type" diet sounds like a good way for someone to sell books,,,and that about it. It makes no sense: did cavemen eat differentely depending on their blood type? I think not.
 
> did cavemen eat differentely depending on their
>blood type? I think not.


The author believes all cavemen were type O, so they did follow a type O diet.


Not saying I agree with the author, just sharing his thought process.
 
The only thing that makes blood types blood types are little antigens on our red blood cells that tell us that they are "ours" or "foreign". They have absolutely nothing to do with diet. Sounds like a gimmick.

-Becky
2nd year medical student
 
I haven't heard strong arguments for this diet, but when I read the book I found out I'm to avoid red kidney beans, eggs, bananas, dairy ... and these are foods I'm allergic to! I thought that was interesting.
 
Hi fox2star. Sent you an e-mail.

Lorrie

Pain is temporary - quitting lasts forever
Candace Grasso, CC-V-6
 
>Hi, Becky,
>
>I had this guy try to push this diet on me too while telling
>me that all the other diets out there are either bad for me or
>didn't work. So I looked some reviews about the diet up on
>google. If I were you, I'd do the same. If I remember right,
>there were quite a few people who said that the "evidence" to
>back this up was incorrect. I personally am just trying to eat
>clean and healthy. I look at it this way, there are TONS of
>people out there who DON'T "eat right for their blood type"
>and they are healthy and look great! Good luck with your
>choice!
>
>Chrissy
>
Hi Chrissy,

Yes I hear where you're coming from and I do agree that many people don't follow the diet and can look great.

I'll see if it works on me, since my nutritionist said he's had 100% success rate in the 13 years he's been practising and advising this diet to his clients.

We'll see, if it doesn't work, I'll know in 1-2 months. But if it does, then at least I know what eating habits can keep me lean. Since my current eating habits are sabotaging my progress despite even the toughest of Cathe workouts!

He says he works out in a gym once a month. He leads an active lifestyle whereby he plays a lot of sports, walks and hikes.

There's just so many different fad diets out there, I don't even know what to believe...
 
Just curious, does anyone still believe in calories in/calories out?
There is so much debate over all of the different diets these days that it just seems that people make weight loss/weight maintenance too hard.

I guess I still believe, and have found to be true in my own experience, that too many calories equal weight gain *not* too many whole grains, too much protein or too much fat.

I know everyone has their own experiences with weight loss, but I think it's still a very simple principle of calories in/calories out. JMHO.
 
I totally agree! I believe it's all about calories in/calories out. Granted, some types of foods have more calories than others, but...
For me, the more simple, the better!

Becky
 
Becky - I also live in Hong Kong. I'm curious to know who this guy is? I haven't seen any reference to him in the English language mags. Is he Chinese? If he says he's had 100% success rate, does he have pics to back it up? Better yet, will he let you contact previous clients?

I'd be skeptical of anyone who hits the gym only once per month.
 
>Becky - I also live in Hong Kong. I'm curious to know who
>this guy is? I haven't seen any reference to him in the
>English language mags. Is he Chinese? If he says he's had
>100% success rate, does he have pics to back it up? Better
>yet, will he let you contact previous clients?
>
>I'd be skeptical of anyone who hits the gym only once per
>month.

Hi,

He was recommended on Geoxpat. His name is Liam Harkness and he says he works with a lot of celebrities and people in the entertainment industry.

He comes quite highly recommended by people who have used him in the past for delivering results and charging reasonable fees.

He will be featured in this month's or next month's Men's Uomo with a 4 page spread on fitness.

Yes, he hits the gym once a month but leads an active lifestyle. Sports, walking, hiking, etc.

I know this sounds sketchy, but the book "Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type" has been around for a while and apparently over 25 million people have had success.

You should check out www.dadmo.com if you're interested in knowing more. I agree that this diet isn't for everyone, but since I'm such a skeptic myself, I really wanted something with solid evidence, proof and results based on scientific findings.

If it works for me, great, if not, back to the old regime. No loss really.
 
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