Guest guest Posted March 3, 1999 Report Share Posted March 3, 1999 Interesting testimonials about Blood type diet from the list called : ER4YT-Aonelist ----------------------------- 1.PSORIASES, ECZEMA , RUSHES, weight loss 2.LOOSING WEIGHT 3.DIGÈSTION STORY 4.ASTHMA and Wheat story. 5.Allergies, Eczema, Digestion 6.Allergies, ... and more PSORIASES, ECZEMA , RUSHES, weight loss Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:09:34 -0500 From: Shelagh McGuire <mcguire@...> ER4YT-Aonelist Subject: [ER4YT-A] My success story so far... From: Shelagh McGuire <mcguire@...> Mine is a success story so far. I started the diet by cutting out dairy and red meat. I know that some dairy is allowed for type A, but my homeopath said that I should cut it out completely. My cravings for sweats disappeared in a couple of days. After 3 weeks I began following the diet closely. Over the 1st 7 weeks, I lost 15 pounds without reducing my food intake at all. I seem to have stabilised now but we will se what happens in the new year. I would like to loose another 15 pounds. I am nursing 2 children which probably contributes to fast weight loss, although I had not lost any weight for the last 7 months prior to the diet. I feel looser in all my joints and my skin disorders are much better. Is that a result of the diet or the homeopathic treatments? Probably a combination of both. My greatest challenge is getting enough sleep. It is a vicious cycle. A child brings in a virus and keeps my mostly awake for several nights. A sick child is very close to me physically coughing in my face, sticking fingers in my mouth. I inevitably catch the virus because I am so run down from lack of sleep and catch it bad. I find myself craving food and nibbling all day for the quick burst of energy. My skin reacts with by breaking out all over the place; psoriasis, eczema and other mysterious rashes. The whole cycle is a lot more vicious in the winter. We live in Canada so we do get winter. My family of 5 As had been healthy for the last 2 weeks and counting.... I am sure that we need to give it a year. Shelagh ------------------------- LOOSING WEIGHT Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 07:46:10 -0700 From: mcbride <mcbride@...> ER4YT-Aonelist Subject: [ER4YT-A] Re: weight loss From: mcbride <mcbride@...> Hello, I began the ERFYT way of life about 3 months ago. I have always been quite thin, but was pretty much eating a type A- vegetarian diet. When I read the book and learned that I am a Type O+, I immediately changed my diet. I have since lost every ounce of body fat on my body. I have always been in good shape due to regular exercise, but I am more toned than ever and my energy level has soared. (I used to want to take a nap every afternoon, and I no longer get that energy dip). If you follow this plan, and remember that Type O’s need vigorous exercise, you will undoubtedly lose excess weight. Good Luck! -------------------- DIGÈSTION STORY From: " Dirlam, Cordelia " <Cordelia.Dirlam@...> ER4YT-Aonelist Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:09:02 -0500 Subject: [ER4YT-A] Indigestion Help From: " Dirlam, Cordelia " <Cordelia.Dirlam@...> Before I started the A diet I had severe indigestion, heartburn, and acid reflux. Since eating according to the A plan I no longer have any problems. I am single and and always on the go so it is tempting not to bother cooking. However, I started making vegetable soups in my crockpot using all the HB root vegetables plus sometimes some broccoli, beans and other HB vegetables. I just slice up a bunch of vegetables, throw them in the pot with water and some parsley, bay leaf or other herbs for flavor, turn the pot on low, just let it simmer while I sleep or do other things. I don't use purchased broths as most have MSG and other additives that bother me. Sometimes I throw in some turkey or ham bones for flavoring. I also now make lentil and other bean soups too, but originally I reacted to the vegetable soups best. When the soup is done, I put it in smaller containers and freeze it. I bring a container to work and heat it up in the microwave oven or heat it up at night when I am too tired to be bothered cooking much. I eat alot of salads with HB greens, carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, onions, garlic, feta cheese. Sometimes I bring these to work. I also steam up a batch of rice which I again package up in small containers for other meals. It is good with stir fried vegetables and tofu. I bring pears and apples to snack on. I also make tofu, fruit and fruitjuice shakes for quick breakfast or snack. Also youghurt for a snack. A small can of salmon is always easy to add to a salad. I find I have to stay away from wheat. It causes asthma and also acid reflux and weight gain...the puffy water storage gassy kind. I really don't spend alot of time cooking, but I am eating home cooked meals that I know what the ingrediants are and I feel very well. --------------------------------------------------------------- ASTHMA story. From: Marcia Fradkin <marciaf@...> " 'ER4YT-Aonelist' " <ER4YT-Aonelist> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:47:13 -0600 Subject: [ER4YT-A] Re: Indigestion Help From: Marcia Fradkin <marciaf@...> Thanks for your comments - the tofu shakes sound like a good idea. I also have had problems with asthma from wheat. Have you noticed a problem being more sensitive to certain foods, since starting this food plan? Marcia Fradkin marciaf@... ----------------------------------- Allergies, Eczema, Digestion From: " Knabenbauer, Sandi " <SKnabenbauer@...> " 'ER4YT-Aonelist' " <ER4YT-Aonelist> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:00:37 -0500 Subject: [ER4YT-A] Re: New and curious From: " Knabenbauer, Sandi " <SKnabenbauer@...> Listening to all the various " problems " people are having with a diet so specific to our blood types, I'm beginning to wonder if there aren't variations in our blood that science has yet to discover. Tomatoes - I love them but they give me gas. I avoided them for a few weeks then ate pizza one evening. The tomatoes were the only avoid food on the pizza. That night I was intolerable! Sweet 'n Low - I use it but too much upsets my stomach. Usually one or two packets, if any, are all I might use in a day. I have ordered some Stevia and am eager to try it. Peanuts - To even my own amazement they act as a laxative for me. People think I'm crazy but I know they are " highly beneficial " to my system. Allergies - I had eczema as a child. The tests basically labeled all the " avoid foods " as those items I should avoid (oranges, wheat, milk, etc.) ER4YT was a revelation to me explaining " why " I was so allergic. At age 7 I went through extensive desensitization vaccinations but as an adult the allergies started to return. Understanding the blood type issues has freed me to make decisions wisely. I believe that a " healthy diet " will not cause digestion problems or illness. If the food is in the wrong category for your system, change it - or at least find out why! D'Adamo's research is definitely on the right track and I'm very curious to see how new scientific discoveries reinforce and/or modify the concepts in this book. Sandi K- mailto: sknabenbauer@... ----------------------------------- celiac symptoms Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:43:27 -0500 From: Shelagh McGuire <mcguire@...> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) ER4YT-Aonelist Subject: [ER4YT-A] Re: Shelagh From: Shelagh McGuire <mcguire@...> Jody, I feel for you with celiac desease. When I was a toddler, I suffered celiac symptoms and was put on a gluten-free diet for about 9 months till I appeared to recover. You are fortunate these days to have more choices than my mother had for me in a small prairie town way back then. The only " bread " that I ate was a wheat starch loaf. I made it recently just to see what it was like. Pretty blah! I don't seem to have a problem with gluten any more, but I do live with a certain amount gas not painful.... Maybe? Shelagh ------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:15:37 -0800 From: Lori Tostado <lorazz@...> ER4YT-Aonelist Subject: [ER4YT-A] first post & stuff :^) From: Lori Tostado <lorazz@...> Hi! My name is Lori and I'm in Sacramento, CA. I've been reading the list for about a week now and just read all the archives too. Thanks for starting this list--it's very helpful. I've been trying to do the A diet since around August. I was pretty much a vegetarian already, just occasionally eating poultry and some fish, but since having a hair analysis done in Oct. that showed I was low in taurine and cannot digest simple carbohydrates effectively, and my adrenals are low, the testing lab suggested that I should eat meat, take enzymes, and so I buy some more chicken (free-range, organic) from the co-op and modify that into my diet. Probably I eat some chicken 4 or 5 times a week and have cut out a lot of the avoid foods, and I try to eat more of the HB's. I've also been taking milk thistle (caps) and nettle herbal tea to help detox the liver....man, I have so many supplements! I started taking lots of extra vitamins and minerals years ago because I was so tired all the time. Now I add herbs and this diet, which I've actually gained weight on (and am now like 20 lbs overweight!) but I have more energy and that's great for me because I work full time and I'm a mother of a 2 1/2 year old sweet little boy who is also type A. Getting him to eat things on the HB or even neutral list is practically impossible. Heck, getting him to eat *anything* is a miracle. <G> He is extremely picky. So is my dh, and he doesn't know his blood type. I suspect he's A like us just because of the way we all have similar allergies, get infections easily, etc. He could be O though. I wish he'd find out, but even if he did and was type A, I couldn't get him to eat tofu for the life of me. <G> He doesn't like my vegetarian cooking at all. Oh well. Personally, as far as tofu goes, I only really like the silken tofu. In my stir-fries it'll get to the consistency of cottage cheese and take on the sauce's flavor and I like it very much. Trouble is all that soy, and other veggies like broccoli, don't set with my intestines very well! Why is it that all these foods that are supposed to be so good for us wreck havock with the gut for some of us? I think I found an expensive (yeah, expensive--but since I've had a relative die of colon cancer, it may be a price I'm willing to pay) cleansing method and dietary aid. Digestive enzymes that contain a-galatosidase (the enzyme that is in the Bean-o brand supplement--but I don't like Bean-o much because of the other stuff it has in it, like cottonseed oil) seem to help. I recently found a broad spectrum enzyme supplement with herbs in it too that is under the name " KAL " and yesterday I took 2 of them with a stir-fry meal that usually gives me terrible gas and bloating and had no problem! And, last year when I was doing colonics (yeah I know it sounds gross but it worked) that really cleansed the colon and helped with my digestive problems. I read (in my various readings on health and nutrition--I just don't remember the source) how your liver will try to release toxins through the digestive system, and cleanse them out of your digestive system too, but if your bacteria in your colon are " bad " ones, the toxins keep recirculating, and your liver gets very taxed! Then it can't do it's other 500 or so functions, and you can get things like allergies, acne, arthritis, eczema and lots of problems. My son has had allergies since he was born--mainly food allergies--the worst were to corn and peanuts! But I found an acupuncturist here in my city who does Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET -- check out www.naet.com) and it doesn't use needles--just acupressure to treat and kinesiology muscle testing to diagnose substance sensitivities, and we've had marvelous results! My son can eat all the foods again that formerly caused him to have rashes, eczema, and asthma, with no problems anymore. We're not finished with the program yet, but soon will be treating his environmental allergies. The NAET treatments are supposed to last a lifetime. I am so amazed what they've done for me too. In combination with the A-diet (well, I probably stick to it about 80% of the time... and let's not talk about the holidays though, uh?) and NAET, I don't get heart palpitations anymore, so don't have to take my heart medication anymore. I didn't ever suspect my heart palpitations were due to allergies before--but they were. You'd be amazed by what could be an allergy. Please check out the site if you have any allergies at all. Especially to any HB food--you might get the great relief we have with NAET and be able to stick to the diet better and get more benefits from it. I have more energy now and I have been so impressed with the results of NAET and acupuncture, and this diet, that I feel like I will be ready to go back to school next fall, like I've wanted to do for a long time, but was just too wiped out and stressed out to even consider it! I'm applying to Bastyr University (Dr. D's school) to get a Master's degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. It's a 3 1/2 year program. I am currently a chemist working in the field of air pollution (oh, you are what you breathe as well as what you eat!! My fair city is not so nice in this respect, unfortunately...sigh.) But I have done so many courses in personal growth and development, and have a gift for healing, so I've been told, that I know I have to persue this, it calls to me...I really want to help people, so, please wish me luck on my application to Bastyr! <VBG> BTW, regarding soy milks--I use Vitasoy in my coffee with a few drops of the liquid stevia extract, and it tastes pretty good! Not as good as the Coffee Mate, yeah, I kind of miss that too, hehe. I get Soy Dream Enriched Vanilla for my son to drink as " milk " and he likes it a lot. I used to use Westsoy Plus which he liked too, but the Soy Dream is fortified with even more vitamins and minerals, and since it is so hard to get my son to eat " good " foods, I feel better knowing he's at least getting a nutritious soy drink. I got my husband to switch to organic cow's milk at least, instead of the regular stuff that has BGH and all those antibiotics. I haven't drank cow's milk in 4 years and don't miss it much. There are some really good soy drinks out there, IMHO. They take a little getting used to....I miss lots of cheeses though! <G> A comment: I was reading someone's posts in the archives that claim all the avoid foods are based on their having harmful lectins. But I remember in the book reading that some of the foods, such as vinegar, were listed as avoid simply because they were too acidic and could easily upset the stomach of a sensitive type-A. So I just wanted to mention it's not completely all about lectins. Well, I'm one who always wants to know *why* something is the way it is...so I'm actually looking forward to Dr. D's " technical manual " I guess you could call it, with all the research and scientific stuff that backs up all his work. That's going to be pretty fascinating to me to read. Does anyone know anything about leaky-gut syndrome? I have a suspicion my son and I might have that as one of the problems of our allergies etc. Well, gotta go for now. Thank you! You're neat people here. -- Lori Tostado | . lorazz@... \|/ . ---o--- *The * . /|\ . *Teachings* | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 06:35:51 -0800 From: Vandygrift <ssvandy@...> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en]C-bls40 (Win95; U) ER4YT-Aonelist Subject: [ER4YT-A] Re: weight loss From: Vandygrift <ssvandy@...> I have been on the program since Oct. this year. I lost 4 lbs. the first week. I have now lost 14 lbs. I like the way the plan makes me feel so I stopped watching the scales so much. I could tell by the way my clothes fit that I was losing inches and lbs. without weighing. I have gone down a size in my clothes. I started the plan to lose weight but after two weeks it didn't really matter if I lost because I felt so much better. I had gotten to where I was really tired and stressed all the time. Now I have a tremendous amount of energy. Please don't get discouraged. The plan is great. ------------------------------ From: " wildlily " <wildlily@...> <ER4YT-Aonelist> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:57:39 -0500 Subject: [ER4YT-A] MSG From: " wildlily " <wildlily@...> My answer to this is to simply eat whole foods, and eat simply. It's very easy to avoid all excitotoxins such as MSG by doing such. It is an adjustment...also a change, but not impossible. The AMA & pharmaceutical companies don't make $$$ off of healthy people. It's disgusting how we have allowed, and continue to allow manufacturers to poison us. My family has chosen to buy " organic " when available, each fresh veggies or frozen, and avoid all snack foods with the exception popcorn & some corn chips. We drink water, and beneficial juices only, & occassionally soy milk. We do cheat on occasion, but we also pay for it. The key is in the planning. We have noticed a HUGE difference in immunity this year, and New Year's Day will make 1 year since starting ER4YT. It's made a HUGE difference, and it worth the extra work to make home made mixes, foods, and meals ...cheaper too. Wisteria ------------------------------- Allergies From: CJagow@... Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:09:51 EST ER4YT-Aonelist Subject: [ER4YT-A] Allergy testing.... From: CJagow@... Have been reading all these letters with interest, and before I got the Dr. D's book, had allergy testing. Strange that he found about the same things I was sensitive to, that are bad for type A. Could not believe I was sensitive to green peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes. Being of Irish descent, that was an insult..<L>, and even sweet potatoes, which my own doctor said was necessary for fiber. Haven't been able to eliminate everything, but the major villains, I now understand. The only things I see different that bother me is soybeans, goldenseal and chamomile, which I hope in time as the body de-toxes, won't be a problem anymore. Thanks for all the sharing of experiences. Pick up so much information! Connie --------------------------------- " ER4RT-A List " <ER4YT-Aonelist> From: " Jeanie Knight " <anoki@...> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 99 15:15:22 PST Subject: [ER4YT-A] Milk Products & Eczema From: " Jeanie Knight " <anoki@...> Hi Rosie & all -- >Did you by any chance catch the link at the bottom of that page? >http://www.aspartamekills.com/ww.htm Yes, thanks for calling my attention to that! I was particularly intrigued by the " anti-dairy coalition " link, which in turn prompted me to do a search on milk in general happily, my six-year-old has decided that he prefers my homemade " peanut milk " on his cereal, while my eight-year-old now *requests* soy over cows' milk! :-) I came up with something which might be of great interest to those of you who have suffered from some type of skin eczema as I have, off and on, throughout my life. From an article at http://www.healthy.net/hwlibrarybooks/hoffman/skin/eczema.htm entitled " Eczema: Dermatitis " -- " Broader Context of Treatment: " If dietary triggers can be identified, it is essential to avoid them completely. Often the specific food restrictions that are called for can be a challenge to adhere to. This is especially the case with young children. . . . Even if there are no obvious food triggers, it is always worth excluding milk and milk products. It seems that this is especially the case with children who were not breast-fed, or weaned too soon. Researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children in London have shown that children often develop eczema when weaned from breast milk to cows' milk or other foods. Goats', soya or sheep's milk rarely trigger allergy problems. Common eczema triggers that are relatively easy to exclude include: Cows' milk Eggs Cheese Fish Sugar Food additives " Suggested therapeutic supplements include Vitamins A and E, Zinc, Quercitin, Evening Primrose oil and flaxseed oil. Jeanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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