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Chapter 4 Lahni’s Insights About Blood Type & Diet

Practical Considerations for Application and Compliance with the Blood Type Dietary Lifestyle

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The Following is an except of the chapter from the book 'Good Health is Easy, It's Being Sick That's Rough' by Drs. Ralph & Lahni DeAmicis

There is a tremendous amount of information available about nutrition and diet. Some of the information is helpful, some is harmful and all of it is potentially confusing since much of it is contradictory. Even in medical school, students are told that in as little as three years, more than 70 percent of the information they have just been taught will be found to be incorrect. Wouldn’t it be nice if they rang up their former students with the corrections? Dietitians and nutritionists are also limited by the time period in which their education takes place, unless they take the furtherance of the knowledge into their own hands.

Forty years ago when the Atkins diet debuted, it was severely criticized. Then on July 7, 2002, The New York Times published a front-page article that said ‘Americans are getting fat because they are eating too many carbohydrates’. ‘O’ Blood Types were finally vindicated after forty years of apologizing for being steaks lovers!

In the human experience, we use trial and error to verify the information that works for us individually. This is why there are so many different opinions regarding a healthy diet. High protein, vegetarian, high carbohydrate, food pyramid, low fat, no fat, the list is endless and does not address familial or cultural diets that often fly in the face of them all. Food and diet is much more than a way of getting nutrients into the body for us to use as fuel for our human machine.

It is a social and cultural experience that teaches us who we are, and how we love and are loved. For this reason, it is nothing short of an act of courage when a person changes the diet they grew up on. They essentially have to turn their back on love as they have come to know it, in order to change their diet. Do you think I am overstating the case? Ask Mom to understand that you will never again eat her special chicken and corn chowder! Or worse, tell her that it is the cause of your asthma and arthritis! How brave do you feel now?

Call me literal, but if a person can understand the underlying logic, it becomes a lot easier to validate a dietary program. Now most people assume that the word diet means that you want to lose weight, but of course diet is the sum total of the nutrients that you serve yourself daily. This is the best starting point in evaluating a program that works for you.

The Blood Type approach gives us information regarding lifestyle as well as dietary information. It is important to note that some of the earliest work regarding Blood Type and Diet was inspired by the fact that some people achieved successful weight loss, improved energy and health with the ‘Spa Type’ diet and exercise programs, while others had less satisfactory results. This ‘Spa Type’ dietary program consisted of largely vegetarian meals, together with moderate, sustained exercise programs such as yoga and calisthenics. While this approach is perfectly suited for the ‘A or AB Blood Types’, it was detrimental to both ‘O and B Blood Types’. The latter groups often gained weight and suffered from decreased energy after this regimen.

Most everyone has heard of the Blood Type Diet but few truly understand it fully. Let’s start at the beginning and set out the basics. In the timeline of man, ‘Original Man’ was an ‘O Blood Type’. If we think logically about what types of food this ‘Original Man’ would have eaten, we understand everything about the dietary needs of ‘Type O’ people, as well as many of their social and physical imperatives. Original man would have eaten anything he could catch or pick. His attention was attracted by movement and color. There was no need for digging or planting since he had no knowledge of agriculture and there was no need to even store food for very long in this environment of abundance. As the climate changed, original man followed his food animals as they instinctively migrated to more temperate zones.

As this original man developed his skills, he became so adept as a hunter that he very nearly decimated the animal population. Animal conservationists of today would be appalled if they realized that many species that existed early in human history became extinct due to over hunting by this early man. This caused a lack of dense animal protein in his diet that triggered the beginning of an evolutionary process of adaptation, by which the human body had to become less dependant upon animal protein for the nutrients required for survival. Adjusting to Change This adaptation took place over a long period and actually took two different forms. These changes not only affected the physiology, but also the social structure of mankind.

Original man was a loner. As a hunter type, the imperative was survival, which required solitude, patience, planning and an expenditure of quick bursts of intense energy followed by periods of rest. One doesn’t hunt in chatty groups. This pattern is still important for ‘O Blood Types’ to understand today. Physiologically, the ‘O Blood Type’ is designed to thrive on activities that require bursts of energy as opposed to prolonged energy expenditures. An easy way to visualize this is by classifying the ‘O Type’ as the sprinter, as opposed to the marathon runner, that would be more suited to the ‘A Blood Type’. Logic tells us that we must see an evolution in the social and exercise patterns here, in addition to the more obvious food plan.

The ‘O Type’ requires a certain amount of time alone each day and is not naturally as social as other blood types. Without this ‘down-time’ when they are allowed to escape to their ‘cave’, ‘O Blood Types’ can become real ‘bears’. The adaptation of blood type from ‘Type O’ to ‘Type A’ and ‘Type B’ began at close to the same time even though the ‘A Blood Type’ became evident quite some time before the ‘B Blood Type’ surfaced. The probable reason for this delay in the appearance of the ‘B Type’ is that this unique adaptation, together with the knowledge and tools required to make it, simply required more time. It was a more complex adaptation since the ‘B Type’ was motivated to maintain the ability to rely on meats in the diet and needed to supplement the diet as well with new foods, to make up for the decreased volume of meats available. This was a complex, time consuming process that we will analyze after viewing the earlier adaptation of the ‘A Blood Type’.

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