Blood type diet

Hello fellow blood-type dieters. Today I am including a post I recently uploaded
to a certain newsgroup. I posted a helpful advice for an older person who wanted
to know how they could recuperate faster after weight training. Of course, my
unorthodox advice was hardly appreciated. I got a little angry and sent some
respones that angered others. Then I got my head back on straight and sent this.
The reason I’m posting this to the group is because it relates to the BTD and
low-carb, both of which apply to us. I’m hoping by exposing to everyone another
one of my rants on the topic of diet and the state of our Western world on this
topic that it will help others when talking about the diet to unbelievers. (who
must be converted to our Mighty Biltong God at all costs!)
And now for the long rant on diets:
Hmmm. What I’m seeing is people criticizing a diet they haven’t tried
(no, doing it wrong with a bad doctor is NOT going on the blood-type
diet) and aren’t willing to look into the actual PEOPLE who have been
on it for some significant length of time.

When people talk about a diet they have no experience with, personally
or anecdotally, and blindly believing the medical establishment, which
apparently has a great deal of investment after decades of nutritional
dogma that is now unraveling, as can be seen in a.s.d.l-c., they then
criticize the BTD (with no experience) from that false viewpoint, to
others who may benefit from the nutritional knowledge in this theory,
yes, that upsets me.
People are too ignorant. People are too willing to unquestioningly
follow dogma set by others with self-interests. I will acquiesce that
many of those self-interested people aren’t actively, knowingly
engaging in something wrong, they are simply caught up in the
misinformation because of professional investment in being a part of
those organizations, being part of an industry that makes a living on
when things go wrong.
Bash blood-type theory? It’s called lectinology. I read in the
pharmaceutical journals of differences in how people of different
blood-types react to things, such as simple foods, for example.
Whether or not anyone “believes” in the blood-type diet I am referring
to, doesn’t matter. Belief or disbelief doesn’t matter. The
nutritional theory works, in that many of the ubiquitous foods in the
Western diet cause problems, and the elmination of those foods results
in a unburdoned body whose health is improved. Agglutination of blood
cells, when the blood cells stick together, as a result of digested
food is entirely preventable. People think understanding of genetics
will result in a new-age of understanding, such as genetically based
nutritional profiles for people. How sad that few people are willing
to recognize the far-reaching implications, on the real-life
expression of the gene which is involved in the blood-type of a
person. Does anyone here know how intertwined the digestive and immune
system are? Does anyone here appreciate what purposes the pathways the
blood cells travels? What this highway in the body functions as?
I have been perusing the low-carb forums, lists, newsgroup, not
because I’m overweight (I’m a skinny dude), but because I’m very
interested. I want to read REAL people’s experiences with this diet.
Just because people have a problem in their relationship to food and
go on another carb-binge and regain weight and fuck things up doesn’t
mean that low-carb diets are flawed, or that they low-carb is
scientifically unsound. You can argue that some are less balanced than
others, that some LC diets are easier for most people to follow for
personality reasons than other LC diets, but what I’ve read in the
various LC books is sound, and I’ve seen it applies to people in the
REAL world.
I have been on the blood-type diet, not the stupid fad diet crap such
as pushed by “Dr.” Gabriel Cousens, as he likes to include some trendy
blood-type diet specifications into his “Conscious Eating” approach
(specifications which are false, according to Dr. D’Adamo’s diet and
in my own personal experience of both diets). I have been on the real
blood-type diet, and personally followed it, as a vegan, as a
vegetarian, and on the full diet outline (omnivore) as it is written
in the various books. I have had an improvement in health that is
appreciable even at my initial age of 22.
The diet is most applicable to people who are suffering from health
complications, the diseased. Young, healthy people have less to gain.
But the benefits of simply avoiding the foods given “Avoid” status in
the blood-type diet, and actively including more of the “Highly
Beneficial” foods has an obvious health-promoting effect. Why? Because
lectins are REAL, they exist in REALITY. It is difficult to avoid
reality.
Media, medicine, they have criticized and used scare-tactics on
low-carb and blood-type diet. I refer to both in the same sentence
becuase they have both been mistreated. Judged by ignorant people. Why
do these diets create such antagonistic opposition? Why so much
negativity? Could it possibly be that something about these diets
which run against the Standard American Diet poses a threat to the
powers that be?
Could it be that many people don’t want to go to the trouble of not
eating wheat? Red meat? Corn? Potato? Dairy? I’ve lived in this world
for a while now, what I see are a bunch of adults who turn immediately
into babies as soon as something as basic as food is brought up. A
resistance to “rules” found in low-carb or the blood-type diet, it is
threatening to their freedom and personal indulgences, sensual
pleasure in their own world… There are many reasons to blindly
oppose the blood-type diet, the LC WOL (and it does turn into a way of
life for many…). And we are given many sources of warning and
negativity from the media, which is a whore to the higher powers, and
filled with people as immature as most of humanity tends to be.
The government isn’t right, and the medical establishment thrives on
illness, disease, suffering. The government is not to be trusted,
either. People are not to be trusted. That is why it is important to
look to REAL people, anecdotal evidence is brought to a higher level
of regard for me because real people with real lives with real
problems who find something that works don’t have ulterior motives,
reasons to LIE. My personal experience has shown me that lower-carb,
blood-type diet eating foods found in books like “Nourishing
Traditions” and eating a diet that runs counter to the USDA food
pyramid is the healthiest, as a weight traing healthy YOUNG MAN the
difference is obvious.
And the reactions to foods that are prohibited in the blood-type
theory are also obvious, sometimes producing reactions that are
impossible to ignore. That, my friends, is REALITY.
This is why I can suggest something as the blood-type diet, and
low-carb, and books like “Nourishing Traditions” written by Mary Enig
and Sally Fallon. That is why I pay attention to the articles on
indigenous peoples, to the nomadic hunter-gatherer life, because it is
relevent to MY OWN LIFE.
You have to understand a diet well enough to follow it correctly, and
to modify it to suit your own individual needs. Going low-carb while
exercising rigorously two hours a day will most likely result in
lethargy and setbacks in athleticism. It could also lead to metabolic
slow-down hampering weight-loss, even illness if total calories are
too low. But it wouldn’t be low-carb that failed. The first person I
knew who was on the blood-type diet, recommended by one of her
doctors, was a miserable failure in terms of health. She couldn’t feed
herself the right foods, even though they are were presented to her by
recommendations from her doctor(s) and by a book. She was a terrible
example of the blood-type diet. If I looked at her and thought “this
is a blood-type dieter” I would consider the blood-type diet a sick,
sad joke. But I went further. I didn’t see anything in the media at
the time criticizing the BTD, but saw some on the internet while I was
actively engaged in learning about it, watching the forum where
blood-type dieters congregated and shared their experiences and
stories and questions in the diet. I learned far more from actually
delving into the people, real people, engaged in this diet.
From my experiences the medical establishment, government, various
health food industries, and media cannot be trusted. The gestalt
impression from looking at groups of REAL people has shown itself (to
me) to be the best gauge of something’s effectiveness. Be it low-carb,
BTD, weight-training programs, etc.
I’m sorry this world isn’t the way the ideals presented early on in
life would suggest it should be. I’m sorry people get so wrapped up in
their own thing, erroneous as it may be, as they do. I’m sorry there
are so many lies thrown about. I’m sad there is so much ignorance.
I’m sorry for calling people liars. Probably many of them are
ignorantly passing on the lies that were told to them.
My computer monitor is malfunctioning, I have to keep pounding the
right side of the screen when it goes blank and the power light turns
from yellow-green to brown. This is probably influencing my writing on
the internet. Many times I’m trying to write or read on-line and then
the screen goes dark and I have to either hit it or turn it off and
wait 5, 10, 30 minutes in order to resume my activity on the internet.
I have been very frustrated over the last two weeks from this. I
apologize to the people I have offended with accusations of lies.
Part of the reason why I get so angry is because I see many personal
accounts by real people who have had health problems who have had very
strong improvements in their personal health while on the blood-type
diet, and of course the much more popular low-carb diets. I think
about the potential for healing that many others are missing out on
when ignorant, misled people are dissuading other people, strangers,
from diets like the BTD and LC diets. This is offensive to me.
As a strong, healthy, young man I have also felt noticeably better,
clearer, and more energized while on the blood-type diet. I KNOW it
works. I cannot claim ill-health, I cannot claim it helped me with any
medical condition. That makes me a poor example of healing from
illness for the blood-type diet. But, it does prove to me that
EVERYONE can benefit from following a diet which is based on physical
reality. I’m not saying that it is a cure-all or a gauranteed thing,
nothing is. But it is the best diet I’ve ever been on, and the best
results I’ve seen from other people’s personal accounts.
You don’t have to do any part of a diet you don’t want to. Sometimes
it is best to include many more carbs than is recommended by a
particular LC diet, because of glycogen/glucose usage during physical
exercise. I can certainly see how the food quantity and frequency
guidelines given in the BTD for the respective blood-types may not be
entirely accurate for an individual, and that some personal, sane
modification is best. Every diet is best when tweaked for the
individual’s own life. But understanding the principles underneath the
low-carb diets, what makes them work, that is important to understand
and utilize in order to benefit from going on a LC diet. The same is
true for the blood-type diet.
As I have adjusted and tinkered with my own diet, from vegan to
vegetarian to meat-based LC, I have been on the blood-type diet to
varying degrees, sometimes avoiding all foods that to be avoided for
my particular genetic sub-type, and other times including an avoid or
two. I have suffered from the avoids, and experienced irritating and
sometimes painful symptoms from them. I know it is real, and when I
read other people on-line I can understand their own experiences. I
know it is real for them as well. I know as a blood-type dieter that
no matter what particular diet I am following, as long as I keep
within the foods allowed in the BTD I will be much better off than if
I go back to my old undiscriminating ways.
The blood-type diet is new, but it is based on physical reality. It
works well, for many people. It is easy to adapt to many other diets,
because beyond anything else that distinguishes the BTD from other
diets, it has a food list that eliminates some foods, encourages
others, and has general guidelines for macronutrient ratios. There is
very balanced dietary advice given in the BTD books. It is not a fad
diet, it is not unbalanced, it is not dangerous. Quite the opposite.
Many people benefit greatly from a reduction or elimination of grains
from their diet, a reduction or elimination of new substances in their
diet (such as preservatives, additives, unnatural residues, artificial
flavors, refined ingredients processed with caustic chemical
processes, etc. etc. etc.). Many people benefit greatly from a
macronutrient ratio that differs from the USDA recommendations, this
is most obvious on the “low-carb” frontier. Is it really low-carb that
is so great, or maybe it is “moderate carb” or “balanced carb”? Is the
blood-type diet for Os, for example, so great because it is the
blood-type diet or is it just the reduction or elimination of grains,
the macronutrient ratio, and the reduction of new and unnatural
substances from the diet of people who take a newfound interest in
what they put in their mouths and bodies? The answer is, yes. BUT,
beyond the similarities that the blood-type diet has to paleo diets,
low or moderate carb diets, fresh-organic-whole-food-no-additive
diets, etc. etc. is that the BTD gives people the additional
understanding of what certain foods do in the body, to the body.
There is a lot of nutritional misinformation out there, and the “new
findings” that expose the medical world’s ineptitude when it comes to
something as basic and important as nutrition leave me to wonder just
how flawed our modern science’s “findings” are. Modern science is
revealing how erroneous not-as-recent-modern science is. This is not
an entity I am going to trust with my own body, brain and mind.
People that criticize LC or BTD and don’t know what they are talking
about simply don’t know what they are talking about. It really is that
simple. I see it all the time. Criticisms against Dr. Robert Atkins,
regardless of the past revisions in his diet, the present-day
criticisms against DANDR in most instances doesn’t even apply! The
same is true for the criticisms against the Blood-Type Diet.
Know what you are talking about when you tell someone not to follow a
certain diet. That is the point I am trying to make.
BTW, lectins are real. So are the implications of the 9q34 gene locus.
Sorry… but Reality remains, regardless of how far a person sticks
their head into the sand.
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So, you’ve endured to the end? Congratulations, you are a veteran of my writing.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my rant. If you have any constructive criticism,
opinions/suggestions, etc. please e-mail me at a.hultman@… After writing
so much I would appreciate any help you may have to offer me on how to approach
other people who are opposed to this diet.

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