Eat Right 4 Your Type
A Healthy Diet for Long-Term Wellness and Weight Loss
Human blood types have evolved over the millennia to enable us to maximize the nutrition from our diets and resist disease. Our diets should be adjusted accordingly.
Blood type is a major factor in absorbing nutrients from food and resisting disease. Thirty thousand years ago, all humans were type O which stands for “Old.” Once humans became farmers and ate more grains and less meat, blood type A evolved. Type A stands for “Agrarian.” Type B evolved later, possibly due to climate changes. Type AB evolved only a thousand years ago due to the intermingling of types A and B. These types evolved due to the movement of human populations out of Africa to Europe and Asia.
The fact that the blood type changed at all is proof that there must have been a benefit—people with the new blood types were better able to survive and reproduce in the new circumstances that the populations found themselves.
Research by Dr. Peter D’Adamo, and earlier by his father Dr. James D’Adamo, has investigated various foods and their effect on the people with the different blood types. Their work led to a series of books starting with Eat Right 4 Your Type: the individualized diet solution to staying healthy, living longer and achieving your ideal weight.
Generally, type O people are meat-eaters since they have the blood type of the original human hunters. Type A people generally do well as vegetarians since they are descended from the first Agrarians. Type B people are more flexible and can handle dairy better than O or A. Type AB is even more flexible and has the benefits of both A and B.
Type O seems to have slightly less ability to resist the diseases that we find in urban populations. When an outbreak of infectious disease strikes a population, more type O people will be affected than the newer blood types. During the plagues that ravaged Europe, a larger percentage of type O people died than did type A.
Since every individual is different, blood isn’t the only factor that determines diet or disease, but it’s an important factor. People who are concerned with maximizing their quality of life and longevity should be aware of the effects of blood type and explore these diets.
For instance, even though type O are generally meat-eaters, many type O people are vegetarians. A type O person who chooses to avoid meat must work a little harder, and a little more scientifically, than a type A to get their nutrition from plants by combining rice and beans for instance. A type O should avoid dairy, but they may find that life without ice cream isn’t worth living, so they might experiment with how much ice cream can they tolerate and still feel good afterwards. A person can sense whether a certain food is good for them if they eat just that one food while their stomach is empty. It just takes a little experimentation to determine which foods energize them and which make them groggy or ill.
Losing weight on a diet that is correct for a person’s blood type is easier than if the diet is more appropriate for another blood type. They still have to eat the right number of calories and exercise, but the correct diet will provide more nutrition and more energy to support the exercise.
The diets in Eat Right 4 Your Type are an excellent starting place for the person who wants to live a long and active life, avoid disease, and look good at the same time.
