Blood type diet

Like a little all over the top?
Sarah
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Hi. I am O+. I eat a large romaine salad every day and I put tuna in it and
usually a roma tomato and some carrots. Once or twice a week I crumble feta
cheese in it. I keep sweet potatoes cooked all the time and have those daily. I
eat cooked spinach (I don’t like it raw) and French green beans and broccoli. I
tried turnips and discovered that I don’t like them (bleckth). I did buy some
parsnips, collard green and kale to try but I haven’t cooked those yet. For
daily fruit, I eat a banana and pineapple juice. Some days I make a smoothie
with Trader Joe’s frozen mango and pineapple chunks with blueberries and/or a
banana and seltzer and ice. I have one egg a day ( I used to have 2 but want
6…lol) and I eat homemade spelt bread or some brown rice a day. I don’t use a
lot of seasoning but I cook my rice in chicken broth. Bland is no big deal to me
but my family likes flavor so I am working on buying some spices. I will eat a
chicken breast and some type of beef. That is a normal day for me. **Warning:
personal, girly stuff ahead** I have noticed that the week before my “cycle”, I
crave protein….lots of protein. That is usually when I will eat more eggs.
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Coryn, when I first started this diet, I could not get enough meat, or eggs, or
fish. But it kept me from getting too hungry and discouraged. After a while my
cravings slowed down, and now I don’t need to eat that much protein any more,
but I still have some 3 times a day.
But I have noticed, that I absolutely NEED plenty of veggies or I’ll start
craving sweets or bread etc.
Just keep on going, it’ll all fall in place for you and don’t worry too much
about the numbers,
Emmi

Here is another excellent resource for the mind/body interconnectedness of
our diets: A book called Mood and Food. I do not recall the author’s name(s).
I found this book a little difficult and dry to read, as it is written at the
level of a medical textbook. But if you are looking for bonafide research
into the endocrinology of our diet and our mental and physical health, this book
is comprehensive.

Also available at www.dadamo.com through the store for around $40.
Completely mail-order.

OK, you will all just not believe this, but I succumbed to an informercial
one night a few years back, and much to my surprise, the greatest mind/body
improvement I have ever experienced came from Tony Robbins, his Personal Power
II
series of videos/workbooks.
What you will learn if you study mind/body anywhere, is that any habit,
whether physical or mental, takes place over an established neuropathway between
the brain, the central nervous system, and the body’s hormonal/chemical makeup.
As we repeat habits, these neural pathways are strengthened. This is not
unlike a muscle that is exercised over and over, and continually grows in size
and capacity. Anyway, to alter the mind/body relationship, you must get off
your established neural pathways, and make new ones.
The Tony Robbins stuff is based on a lot of research he has done over the
years, and I found it to be very effective. You will do a lot of exercises in
analyzing beliefs and mental habits that you practice, and whether or not these
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Coryn,
Who knows if I’ll ever say anything worth saving, but if I do, you have my
permission to post it to your website.
Donna Murray

Concerning protein, here is one opinion:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:10:34 -0600, Lyle McDonald wrote:
Lyle, I follow you up to a point but what are you calling sufficient
protein? US RDA (or DRI or whatever it is these days)? WHO’s
recommendations? Some other amount?
For dieting: 0.8-1 g/lb LBM.
It’s been known for over 30 years that protein requirements go up when
calories go down which makes most of the standard recommendations (RDA,
probably WHO) too low (they are based on maintaining body protein under
normal dietary/non-stressed conditions).
The PSMF studies determiend taht you need 1.5 g/kg LBM (they actually
used ideal bodyweight as a proxy for lean body mass), or about 0.7 g/lb
to limit LBM losses (while still allowing a sufficient caloric deficit).
Of course, that’s in extreme obesity (the more bodyfat you have, the
less proetin you tend to lose). It’s also without activity.
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In Cook Right he also stresses that he is giving protein guidelines and that
it is not possible to break it out by gender, weight, height, etc. He says
there that he specificially that he doesn’t want to make an exact, exact
recommendation on quantity.
With that said I realize that some people really like absolutes. Some like
them, to be told what to do, just so they can make it easier for themselves.
Others like them to put themselves in a special category “I am the perfect
follower of this diet and anyone doing less is inferior!”.
Christine

I think you would find the mind-body link info about the effect of sugar,
chocolate, proteins and carbs–direct link to brain and body chemistry very
interesting…as certain foods are eaten, mood can go up and down (even
true, serious depression)..in “Potatoes not Prozac” book. I have not read
such detailed info anywhere. Specifically discussed are the brain chemicals
serotonin, beta-endorphins and glucose. Interesting discussion of the
over-prescription of serotonin based drugs (prozac and others) when many
(not all) people can feel better emotionally and physically by altering
their diet (specifically combining carb with protein and avoiding loads of
sugar products or alcohols). There is also specific info about the affect of
foods/sugars on the alcoholic person or even those whose parent(s) are
alcoholics (their body chemistry/brain chemistry is different).
The books about seasonal affective disorder, where sunlight plays a role in
our mood (i.e. getting depressed or blues in the winter time) is another
interesting area. Exposure to certain (full spectrum) light increases
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