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Michio Kushi says that blood type is always changing and that if you maintain macrobitiotic eating patterns for a long time you should check (after 15 years) it will probably change. Kushi lits the blood types from yang to yin:
Type O = most yang
Type B = Next most yang (Roy is this type)
Type AB = Next (Michio is this type)
Type A = Yin
Much of our genetic traits are due to the types of food we ate in our past and these foods were determined by the type of CLIMATE they grew in. The foods + the climate gave rise to not only different blood types but also created different species.
Achareologist Adam Chou recently wrote a wonderful article on this topic that was presented at the Proceeding of a Symposium to Commemorate the 80th Birthday Celebration of Professor Serrzawa in Sendai Japan. The article is titled Treatise of the Two Genetic Traits in East Asia."
Chou sites that the need for an abundant amount of vegetation was required for homo erectus to evolve into homo sapiens, and that the temperate climate was crucial in the development of homo sapiens. Scientists also use the term Adaptive Radiation to show how morphology and genetic traints are altered once adaptation to a new environment is made.
Most of this work appears to prove that one needs not only to change food habits according to the environment but also that blood and genetic changes will occur once different foods (nurtients) are consumed.
I do not dispute that there is an element of truth to the btd but that there is a lot more to it that what is put forth. Please experiment carefully but always keep in mind moderation, and yin/yang thinking. Hence we don't eat chocolate in the northern climates as it is a more tropical fruit containing too much protein, fat and the stimulating alkaloid theobromine, closely related o caffeine. Once we begin eating foods from ouside of our environment it makes it exceeding difficult to adapt to the climates we live in. Not to mention that our thinking becomes more abstract and disconnected. So my suggestion is that in order to incorporate the ideas of the btd into macrobiotic practice then use your judgement and take only those foods sugested for your blood type if they are from the environment you live in and if they are prepared by yin/yang menthod.
In peace, Roy
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