Blood Type Diet
How To Lose Weight By Eating For Your Blood Type?
Quite some years ago, a very interesting new idea popped
up: eating for your blood type. This concept answered the
age-old question: why not all eating plans work for everyone.
That just seems like a fact, everyone is different with regard
to the types of food that works for them, and also the type
of exercise program. A weight loss regime that works for one
person might not work for someone else.
Some experts started to link this factor to blood type. There
are four main blood types, and based on what the experts say,
each type represents a body type. And if you eat according
to your blood type, it makes it easy for you to lose weight.
On the other hand, most weight problems are the result of
eating the food that’s wrong for your type. Like wise,
there are types of exercise which are suitable for some types
and not for others.
Though mainstream science ridiculed this idea, thousands
of people endorsed this diet plan according to their blood
type and many had excellent results. This is the theory: the
different blood types evolved at different times in human
history, and even until now people with those types have traits
that are specific to humans at that stage of evolution. If
you are confused, now let’s quote an example to make
it simpler for you to understand. According to this theory,
‘O’ type blood, because it’s the simplest
type, evolved first before all other types. At that time in
human history, people had not yet developed agriculture. They
were hunters, and ate meat and greens, there was no wheat,
dairy because those foods developed later on with the advent
of farming. Humans at that time in history also exercised
vigorously.
So, if you have ‘O’ type blood, your body is
similar to this early human physiology. If you have a die
includes a lot of carbohydrates and don’t exercise vigorously,
then you will start to have weight problems and other health
problems, because you are not eating and exercising in the
way that is right for your blood type and body type. In order
for the ‘O’ type to lose weight, you have to eat
plenty of red meat and vegetables, and very little wheat or
dairy. You should also have a strenuous physical activity,
like running or weight lifting that you practice several times
a week.
But if you are a type ‘A’ or ‘B’,
what’s said in the above will not work for you. Since
these blood types developed somewhat later, after agriculture
was established, so these individuals can and should eat more
fruits, vegetables, and grains. People with ‘AB’
type blood are lucky because their type evolved last, after
humans had incorporated all types of food into their diet.
So ‘AB’s can basically eat anything without gaining
weight.
For the past six or seven years, many people have followed
this plan and lost plenty of weight. However, there are a
few problems with it. First of all, as mentioned before, there
is no hard scientific evidence to show that people with different
blood types are physiologically different. Although it is
an attractive idea, but it has not been proven to work yet.
Moreover, some of the blood type diets, especially the ‘O’
is very restrictive. The ‘O’ diet is quite similar
to Atkins at its most restrictive, and some nutritionists
say that this might lead to problems with high cholesterol
in the long run. There are also proponents of the diet argue
that ’O’ type people are precisely those who can
afford to eat a lot of meat without negatively affecting their
cholesterol level. If someone with a different blood type
ate in this way, it might be a problem, but not for ’O’s.
And it is also a fact that some people develop or don’t
develop cholesterol problems regardless of their diet.
If you say that this theory has no basis, how would we explain
the weight loss that so many people have experienced? It may
be simpler than you think. Any one of the four blood type
eating plans would make you healthy if you follow it correctly.
Some, like the ‘O’ diet, are also quite restrictive.
Regardless of which type of diet you go for, you will still
lose weight!
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