Blood type diet

Re Holiday travel: Aikya, try going to Dr. D’s website and check out his
new meal replacement protein bars for type O’s. You can order 12 of these
(1 box) for about $24.00. They should be easy to travel with, and you’ll
have the satisfaction of knowing that they are specifically for your type.
Otherwise, you could try buying a “THINK!” bar in the chocolate fruit
harvest flavor. They are available at our Super Wal-Mart in what passes for
the healthfood section of the grocery section.This is the only nutrition
bar I’ve found that has suitable ingredeints for us O’s. It contains Ginkgo
biloba which is neutral for us, but unfortunately, very little protein.
Also, how about a package of dried fruit? You could buy one that has a
resealable zipper.
I thought the idea of taking nuts with you also had possibilites.
The only thing you might have to worry about in traveling with the
nutrition bars would be if the climate you’re going to is rather warm, the
chocolate might begin to melt.
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These tidbits are from here and there on MotherNature.com. Don’t miss the
RA reference in the third selection, those of you with rheumatoid arthritis.
Not just for ulcers, this licorice stuff.
“Licorice root may seem a surprising choice for helping the skin, but
re-searchers find that it combats many types of dermatitis, improves liver
health, reduces skin inflammation and is useful in treating symptoms of
stress and allergies.”
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“Licorice has been found to neutralize liver toxins. The Chinese may have
been the first to use licorice to treat the liver. In modern times, licorice
has been studied by the Research Group of Liver Disease at the Shanxi
Medical College in China. Since the 1950s, medical doctors in both the East
and the West have used a compound derived from licorice to treat chronic
hepatitis. In Japan, glycyrrhizin, a compound extracted from licorice, was
found to be so successful in treating hepatitis that it was written up in at
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Eat your artichokes! From MotherNature.com again:
“If you like artichokes, you are in luck. While few American doctors
consider artichoke a medical herb, European doctors regularly prescribe
artichoke extracts to patients with liver problems. In fact, they have been
using artichoke to treat jaundice and other liver complaints since as far
back as the eighteenth century. Artichokes protect the liver from damage and
help it regenerate-and yes, eating them for dinner counts. However, before
you make up your shopping list, be aware that most commercial artichokes are
highly sprayed, and if you are trying to heal your liver, pesticides are
among the last things you want to eat.
It was not until the 1930s that German and French researchers began to study
artichokes in their laboratories. Later, Italian researchers joined them to
produce a substantial amount of research. In one study, dozens of Polish
workers who were exposed to the toxic chemical fumes of carbon disulfide
were given an artichoke extract for two years. The results of this study
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according to your email address you are living in Australia. Where? You
are the first soul I found doing this O diet from this side of the
world. Hi. I am living in Victoria near Geelong.
Well, what I did when I had this gravings was, I ate dried figs and
Walnuts that helped a lot. I also eat, as a special treat, once a week,
the Vitaro Ice cream (no milk, although it has a bit Gum in it, I eat it
as a special treat). I stopped drink coffe all together and have herbal
teas or just hot water. It is astonishing, how I can enjoy hot water
(most of the time). I had terrible headaches for about a week, but now I
am fine. I have only started 4 weeks ago, and I still try to find my
ways. Every now and than, more often then not, I am caught with food,
which contains something “avoid”. I did not realise before how much
wheat, maize, milk powder …is in food.
cheers, Klara
Hi Aikya, I never thought about a hypothyroid. I am always cold and I
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snip<<<<<<<<<<Could I get some recipes for smoothies w/in the 0 diet? I am
embarrassed to say I have never made ONE! Would any of you use almond milk or
soy milk with them? Is any kind of soy or almond milk acceptable?
I make my fruit smoothies out of 100% fruit. I start with 1 to 2 cups of
pineapple juice, or a blend of pineapple juice with black cherry juice. And
some days I even use part prune juice with pineapple or black cherry. (At least
some ingredients can be beneficial.) Then I add frozen fruit to the level of
the juice (in my blender.) I stick with neutral fruits such as mango, peach,
blueberries, black cherries, banana, and pineapple.
All the fruits are available frozen where I shop except the bananas but they
freeze quite well right in the peel. I just trim the ends and peel them in
sections. One entire banana makes for a lot of smoothie flavor so frequently I
add one half of a banana and put the other half back in the freezer for
tomorrow. It keeps just find that way.
I don’t bother with soy milk or anything, I like them made with just fruit.
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snip<<<<<<<<<<<<,Frozen deserts are going to be a problem. Of course, right
now–hypothyroid as I am I probably shouldn’t have anything cold, never mind
frozen. I see an ice cream maker in my future, right up there next to the
breadmaker.
Ain’t that the truth! I love ice cream and miss it frequently. I did find one
frozen sorbet that doesn’t have corn syrup or dairy. It’s Howler Rainforest
Sorbet, Mango flavored. The ingredients are mango puree, water, organic cane
sugar, fruit pectin and guar gum. I have this occasionally and am hoping that
since guar gum isn’t a lectin itself and only enhances lectin activity that it
won’t matter as long as I only eat it when I haven’t gotten any other damaging
lectins at the same time. Unfortunately pectin is an unknown according to my
list. (which is a bit old.) I’ll be a little depressed to learn that pectin
has become a lectin avoid.
Squash stuffing? Rice with feta cheese? Mozzarella with walnuts, raisins,
ezekial bread cubes? Turkey sausage with rice, cheese, crumbs? Chopped prunes
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Thanks for letting us know about Steve’s list - what a goldmine of
information! After reading his “reasons why” list I’m more resolved than
ever to leave off the avoid foods.
Also, he has several herbs and supplements listed that aren’t in either of
Dr. D’s books, so that was enlightening. Believe I really must cut back on
the number of supplements I’ve been taking - perhaps now that I’m following
the diet closer than ever I won’t need some of them anyway.
What is the story on magnesium, though? For persons with fibromyalgia it’s
supposed to really help. Most fibro patients are O’s, yet Dr. D doesn’t
mention this as a needed supplement. I’ve been taking it for a couple of
years now, but maybe I don’t really need it. Anybody out there have an
answer on this?
Becky B.

If you have the “Cook Right for your Type” book, the explanation of what
lectins are is on pages nine and ten.

Well, I’ve found a recipe for Pad Thai without coconut milk. I think the
only avoids in it are the peanuts and peanut oil. I would replace the
peanuts with almonds, and the peanut oil with roasted sesame oil (roasted
for more flavor). I got this recipe from a magazine. There are many
variations on this dish so feel free to modify as you see fit.
“Pad Thai is probably the most popular noodle dish on Thai restaurant
menus. In Thailand, each street vendor sells a unique version of this
wonderfully aromatic dish.”
4 servings
1/2 lb. dried rice noodles (width of linguine)
1/4 cup fresh lime sauce
2 tbs. soy sauce
2 tbs. brown sugar
1 to 2 tsp. hot chile sauce
2 tsp. peanut oil
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My name is Joan, I am a widow, 67 years old and just starting out on this
new way of eating. A friend told me of it initially and she praised it so
highly that I decided I would try it. I am reasonably healthy, some
osteoarthritis, a kidney disease that is fairly mild at the moment, low
thyroid function and maybe about 20lbs overweight.
The thing about this diet that amazes me is that most of the forbidden
foods are things I have never liked very much anyway, cheese, milk and
dairy products have never been high on my diet, I have always enjoyed meat
so eating it is no hardship for me. The thing I will miss is bread and
wheat products.
I live in Canada, in Alberta where we also get very cold winters, I don’t
enjoy the cold at all but prefer it to the damp and wet climates that some
parts of the world get. I emigrated to Canada from England in 1967 and
apart from living for various periods in Indonesia, Trinidad and the USA
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