Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type

[Guest guest]

Have any of you explored the information in D'Adamo's book,

Eat Right 4 Your Type?

One of the long-time workers at the supplements section of my local healthfood

store gives it a lot of respect as part of a wellness plan, but I like seeking

input from diverse groups.

TIA

M.

[Guest guest]

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I'm not going to try to find the source for the following statement (I didn't

make it up), but I believe it to be true:

.. . . There are no controlled clinical studies that support

.. . . _any_ of the " blood-type diet " claims by anyone.

I'd check the literature carefully, before spending any time or money adjusting

my diet.

PS -- I couldn't help myself. The Wikipedia article is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_diet

and says (among other things):

" . . . Nevertheless, the consensus among dietitians, physicians, and scientists

is that the theory is unsupported by scientific evidence. "

You can read the references yourself.

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> Have any of you explored the information in D'Adamo's book,

> Eat Right 4 Your Type?

> One of the long-time workers at the supplements section of my local healthfood

store gives it a lot of respect as part of a wellness plan, but I like seeking

input from diverse groups.

>

> TIA

>

> M.

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you for the link, .

After looking into it this afternoon, I see his writing looks at statistical

data, not controlled clinical studies. At his website,

D'Adamo certainly sites an abundance of peer reviewed scientific data.

" Although there are probably over a thousand publications on the associations of

blood groups and disease, many are based totally on statistical analyses. Most

of the earlier studies have been controversial, because they were small studies

and/or had inadequate controls and/or had been analyzed incorrectly.

Nevertheless, it is difficult to argue with the general pattern that emerges

from the large body of statistical data on malignancy, coagulation and

infection. Some of the findings on microbe receptors, and the association with

important immune proteins are most convincing and suggest that blood group

antigens do play an important biological role: A role that is often completely

unrelated to the red blood cell. It can be said at the outset, that cancers in

general tend to be associated with group A, and slightly less strongly with

group B. With that, let's look at some trends among selected cancers with regard

to blood type. "

source: Blood groups and cancer http://www.dadamo.com/science_ABO_cancer.htm

Blood groups and immunity

http://www.dadamo.com/science_ABO_lectins_immunity.htm

Diet, Disease, and the ABO Blood Group

http://www.dadamo.com/science_diet_disease_1981.htm (2446 cancer patients

grouped by blood type at the Mayo Clinic)

Boyd's Discovery of Lectin Specificity

http://www.dadamo.com/science_boyd_discovery.htm

(See Also: Clouser Boyd in: The Individualist

From l. NY Acad. Sci. 1970 (169) 168-90: )

I won't be spending any money, but I may get the books at the library and

consider his food lists for my blood type.

M.

> I'd check the literature carefully, before spending any time or money

adjusting my diet.