Roy Collins
01-09-2002, 10:58 AM
Greetings: the following information is in regards to the Blood Type Diet. Much of the research came directly from the internet
and the authors of the works cited have been identified. I merely tried to put the post into a more readable format by adding my own thoughts and restructuring the facts I culled from other sources. As I have been overwhelmed with work lately I had to a rush job and apologize for the patchy composition. Hopefully some discussion will come from this series of messages. Following is part 1:
Macrobiotics & Blood Type Diet? Pt 1
“Blood Type Diet” author/promoter, Peter D’Adamo uses two main theories as the underlying basis for his ideas of correlating specific foods to each of the four blood types that human beings have.
The first is that the type O blood group is the “original” blood type of our ancestors and that the other three types evolved from this. . The foundation of this theory is his belief that Cro-Magnons, who lived 40,000-20,000 years ago, were all type Os and ate mainly meat. Types A, B, and AB came along later, he says, and only they are genetically equipped for a diet that includes grains. There is no evidence anywhere in the scientific literature, however, that suggests Cro-Magnons were mainly or all type Os.
Hence the more primitive the blood type (O) more animal food is required to maintain that genetic group. It doesn’t matter where you reside, you simply need to eat more meat. They are told also to avoid oranges, apples, wheat, peanut butter, avocados, cabbage, and potatoes, but encouraged to eat veal, ground beef, and beef heart.
Type Bs are told to eat a lot of dairy product. They are to avoid sunflower seeds, garbanzo beans, pinto beans, whole wheat bread, corn, pumpkin, tofu, tempeh, and tomatoes, but encourages them to eat rabbit, lamb, and mutton. (again, geography, season, etc. does not play much of a role in selection).
Type As are told they do well on vegetarian diets, but they should avoid cabbage, potatoes, eggplant, olives, peppers, and tomatoes, among many other foods. They are, however, advised to eat snails. So even if you live in the Northern Tundra where none of these foods are locally produced these are the foods you need.
Type ABs are told to avoid corn, peppers, olives, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, and lima beans, but encouraged to eat jam, jellies, rabbit, and turkey.
In Fact: According to paleontologist Richard Leakey, who is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost experts on the evolution of the human diet. Leakey points out, “You can’t tear flesh by hand, you can’t tear hide by hand. Our anterior teeth are not suited for tearing flesh or hide. We don’t (and Cro-Magnons didn’t) have large canine teeth, and we wouldn’t have been able to deal with food sources that required those large canines.”
If Cro-Magnons had large canine teeth, they still almost certainly would only rarely have eaten meat. Their diet would have been similar to that of the chimpanzee, our closest genetic relative. This makes perfect sense (from the evolution standpoint) since the original primates were tree dwellers and ate the fruits, leaves, nuts, seeds, and barks which don’t require canines but more flattened teeth instead. Hence the macrobiotic theory holds up very here – the proportion of non-canine teeth (28) to canine teeth (4) shows that we need to be eating 7 times as much vegetable quality food than animal (at least).
It is also well known, for example, that the chromosomes of the man-apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, etc.) are very similar to those of man himself, differing in fact only very slightly, thus suggesting a genetic relationship. CHIMPANZEES are A, minimal O, never B. GORILLAS are B, minimal O, but never A. AB is missing - only HUMANS have it.
28 separate studies showed that Chimpanzees have the blood types A and minimal O, but never B. 8 separate studies showed that Gorillas have the blood types B and minimal O, but never A. There is NO blood type AB in either of the man-apes. But man has both A and B AND blood type AB as well as very much O.
Blood types did not originate with humans. Dr Stephan Bailey, a nutritional anthropologist at Tufts University states that there is no anthropologic evidence whatsoever that shows that all prehistoric people with a particular blood type ate the same diet. Furthermore, depending on the geographic zone you live in that is the food which must be eaten. This is the way of nature, survival depends on the ability to adapt to the environment. Types A and B are very likely the originals according to the modern scientific community.
Different kinds of animals have different types of blood. Dogs have 4 blood types; cats have 11; cows have about 800. Pigs are widely considered the best potential animal donors of organs for humans because pigs have the same blood types as humans. Pig organs are of similar size and operate in similar ways to human organs.
Type O blood and type A blood existed long before hominid species began. During the Ecocene relatives of horses and pigs, had these blood types.
Anthropologists have investigate blood differences among the races. They have noted that certain races and subraces have particular distributions of one or another blood type. This has enabled scientists to categorize the races and, since blood types are genetically determined, to trace early migration patterns. It is possible to make maps of allele frequencies in different populations.
The second theory is based on on the action of lectins, the proteins found on the surface of certain foods that can cause various molecules and some types of cells to stick together. D’adamo maintains it is these lectins that account for serious disruptions throughout the body. For instance, certain legumes, especially lentils and kidney beans, we are told, contain lectins that deposit in your muscle tissues, making them more alkaline and less charged for physical activity.
In Fact: According to Michael Klaper, M.D, In modern medical literature, especially that of blood pathology, there is no mention of tissue infarcation due to lectin-induced red cell agglutination as a cause of any disease in humans. D’adamo (without offering evidence) says otherwise. According to Klapper, “a syndrome of organ failures due to lectin-induced micro-infarctions of the brain, heart, kidneys, retinas, and adrenals would be well known to pathologists and other medical scientists. It would not be a subtle disease. In the pathology texts, there would be clear descriptions - complete with photographs taken through high-power, optical microscopes as well as electron microscopes - of damage from lectin deposits and blood agglutination in most major organ systems. The existence and intricacies of such a widespread disease would be as common knowledge among physicians and cell scientists as atherosclerosis is today. Yet, I am aware of no such descriptions in the pathologic literature.”
Lee Lipsenthal, MD, the vice president and medical director of Dr Dean Ornish’s Preventive Medicine Research Institute, likewise sees no correlation between blood typology and nutritional needs: “There is no evidence in the scientific literature associating blood typology with nutrient needs. Although heart disease almost invariably gets worse, even when patients follow the American Heart Association recommendations, most of our patients have shown actual reversal of their disease, and the vast majority have shown measurable improvement in many areas – improved physical function on exercise tests, improved blood flow to the heart muscle, improved mood and sense of vitality, improved cholesterol levels, improved blood pressure, improved sleep patterns, and improved social function. We’ve had many hundreds of patients show dramatic improvements, and all this has been measured by objective tests. I don’t see any possibility that people with blood types 0 and B (who together represent nearly 60 percent of the population of the U.S.) are not being helped by the Ornish program.”
More to come later…..
In peace, Roy
and the authors of the works cited have been identified. I merely tried to put the post into a more readable format by adding my own thoughts and restructuring the facts I culled from other sources. As I have been overwhelmed with work lately I had to a rush job and apologize for the patchy composition. Hopefully some discussion will come from this series of messages. Following is part 1:
Macrobiotics & Blood Type Diet? Pt 1
“Blood Type Diet” author/promoter, Peter D’Adamo uses two main theories as the underlying basis for his ideas of correlating specific foods to each of the four blood types that human beings have.
The first is that the type O blood group is the “original” blood type of our ancestors and that the other three types evolved from this. . The foundation of this theory is his belief that Cro-Magnons, who lived 40,000-20,000 years ago, were all type Os and ate mainly meat. Types A, B, and AB came along later, he says, and only they are genetically equipped for a diet that includes grains. There is no evidence anywhere in the scientific literature, however, that suggests Cro-Magnons were mainly or all type Os.
Hence the more primitive the blood type (O) more animal food is required to maintain that genetic group. It doesn’t matter where you reside, you simply need to eat more meat. They are told also to avoid oranges, apples, wheat, peanut butter, avocados, cabbage, and potatoes, but encouraged to eat veal, ground beef, and beef heart.
Type Bs are told to eat a lot of dairy product. They are to avoid sunflower seeds, garbanzo beans, pinto beans, whole wheat bread, corn, pumpkin, tofu, tempeh, and tomatoes, but encourages them to eat rabbit, lamb, and mutton. (again, geography, season, etc. does not play much of a role in selection).
Type As are told they do well on vegetarian diets, but they should avoid cabbage, potatoes, eggplant, olives, peppers, and tomatoes, among many other foods. They are, however, advised to eat snails. So even if you live in the Northern Tundra where none of these foods are locally produced these are the foods you need.
Type ABs are told to avoid corn, peppers, olives, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, and lima beans, but encouraged to eat jam, jellies, rabbit, and turkey.
In Fact: According to paleontologist Richard Leakey, who is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost experts on the evolution of the human diet. Leakey points out, “You can’t tear flesh by hand, you can’t tear hide by hand. Our anterior teeth are not suited for tearing flesh or hide. We don’t (and Cro-Magnons didn’t) have large canine teeth, and we wouldn’t have been able to deal with food sources that required those large canines.”
If Cro-Magnons had large canine teeth, they still almost certainly would only rarely have eaten meat. Their diet would have been similar to that of the chimpanzee, our closest genetic relative. This makes perfect sense (from the evolution standpoint) since the original primates were tree dwellers and ate the fruits, leaves, nuts, seeds, and barks which don’t require canines but more flattened teeth instead. Hence the macrobiotic theory holds up very here – the proportion of non-canine teeth (28) to canine teeth (4) shows that we need to be eating 7 times as much vegetable quality food than animal (at least).
It is also well known, for example, that the chromosomes of the man-apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, etc.) are very similar to those of man himself, differing in fact only very slightly, thus suggesting a genetic relationship. CHIMPANZEES are A, minimal O, never B. GORILLAS are B, minimal O, but never A. AB is missing - only HUMANS have it.
28 separate studies showed that Chimpanzees have the blood types A and minimal O, but never B. 8 separate studies showed that Gorillas have the blood types B and minimal O, but never A. There is NO blood type AB in either of the man-apes. But man has both A and B AND blood type AB as well as very much O.
Blood types did not originate with humans. Dr Stephan Bailey, a nutritional anthropologist at Tufts University states that there is no anthropologic evidence whatsoever that shows that all prehistoric people with a particular blood type ate the same diet. Furthermore, depending on the geographic zone you live in that is the food which must be eaten. This is the way of nature, survival depends on the ability to adapt to the environment. Types A and B are very likely the originals according to the modern scientific community.
Different kinds of animals have different types of blood. Dogs have 4 blood types; cats have 11; cows have about 800. Pigs are widely considered the best potential animal donors of organs for humans because pigs have the same blood types as humans. Pig organs are of similar size and operate in similar ways to human organs.
Type O blood and type A blood existed long before hominid species began. During the Ecocene relatives of horses and pigs, had these blood types.
Anthropologists have investigate blood differences among the races. They have noted that certain races and subraces have particular distributions of one or another blood type. This has enabled scientists to categorize the races and, since blood types are genetically determined, to trace early migration patterns. It is possible to make maps of allele frequencies in different populations.
The second theory is based on on the action of lectins, the proteins found on the surface of certain foods that can cause various molecules and some types of cells to stick together. D’adamo maintains it is these lectins that account for serious disruptions throughout the body. For instance, certain legumes, especially lentils and kidney beans, we are told, contain lectins that deposit in your muscle tissues, making them more alkaline and less charged for physical activity.
In Fact: According to Michael Klaper, M.D, In modern medical literature, especially that of blood pathology, there is no mention of tissue infarcation due to lectin-induced red cell agglutination as a cause of any disease in humans. D’adamo (without offering evidence) says otherwise. According to Klapper, “a syndrome of organ failures due to lectin-induced micro-infarctions of the brain, heart, kidneys, retinas, and adrenals would be well known to pathologists and other medical scientists. It would not be a subtle disease. In the pathology texts, there would be clear descriptions - complete with photographs taken through high-power, optical microscopes as well as electron microscopes - of damage from lectin deposits and blood agglutination in most major organ systems. The existence and intricacies of such a widespread disease would be as common knowledge among physicians and cell scientists as atherosclerosis is today. Yet, I am aware of no such descriptions in the pathologic literature.”
Lee Lipsenthal, MD, the vice president and medical director of Dr Dean Ornish’s Preventive Medicine Research Institute, likewise sees no correlation between blood typology and nutritional needs: “There is no evidence in the scientific literature associating blood typology with nutrient needs. Although heart disease almost invariably gets worse, even when patients follow the American Heart Association recommendations, most of our patients have shown actual reversal of their disease, and the vast majority have shown measurable improvement in many areas – improved physical function on exercise tests, improved blood flow to the heart muscle, improved mood and sense of vitality, improved cholesterol levels, improved blood pressure, improved sleep patterns, and improved social function. We’ve had many hundreds of patients show dramatic improvements, and all this has been measured by objective tests. I don’t see any possibility that people with blood types 0 and B (who together represent nearly 60 percent of the population of the U.S.) are not being helped by the Ornish program.”
More to come later…..
In peace, Roy