Blood type diet

Hey Cave-men & Cave-women friends!
Here’s a fun experiment!
If you don’t have a water filter or some other source of tasteless water, get
one (many parts of U.S. don’t have the best tap water). I have a Pur water
filter, for example. If you don’t want to bother with getting a water filter and
want to do the experiment purely for taste get yourself some distilled water,
NOT mineral water.
Fill two large containers with the tasteless water, say, two liter sized glass
bottles (I like to re-use my liquor & wine bottles). Then, put about 1/4
teaspoon of REAL sea salt into one container. Real sea salt actually smells of
the sea. Many real salts are a dull off-white or gray. Real salts clump. Real
salts taste like the ocean, not just salty.
The next part of the experiment is sharing your mineralized water with your
unsuspecting friends! Listen to what they say. Do they comment on the water’s
sweetness? Do they think it is, for some odd reason, “tasty” water? Then you can
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When I was a raw foodist, the topic of eat right for your type came up here
and there. It is very frowned upon in the raw foodist community. They say there
is no scientific proof behind it. I always held my tongue as I knew nothing
about it. Well, I have to say that since I started replacing the stuff on my
avoid list with stuff on either the neutral or beneficial list, I have felt so
much better.
When I found after eating raw for a year, that I was pregnant, I could no
longer eat raw. It made me sick to even look at produce let alone eat it. Then
after I had my son, I found I could not return to the raw ways. So, I started to
seek what my body needed which brought me here. I don’t care what others say
anymore. The proof for me is right here, in my body.
I am so glad already. It is going to take me a while to work on totally
bringing this way of life into my life, but I know it is worth it.
I just wanted to say that.
Thank you for listening.
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First, Max & Sarah, the guideline I have from Heidi on OTD and a book about
water is 1/2 oz per pound of body weight (not 1 oz per pound of body
weight).
I found Donna Mae’s image of a revised food pyramid with meat & greens at
the bottom very helpful! A way for me to visualize how to focus my portions.
What’s brilliant about this is that it shows what the focus of the O diet
needs to be . . . that it’s not just about avoiding the avoids . . . it’s
about including and focusing on the beneficial foods ~ in the right
proportions. It reminds me that Dr. D’Adamo suggests adding beneficials
before eliminating any avoids . . . that eating the foods that are best for
us is that important . . . and it probably helps set the stage for having
some good habits in place before trying to cut back on the avoids. Though I
didn’t approach it that way! (I eliminated avoids first then out of
desperation started eating more beneficial meat, fish & greens).
Paulita

Eva mentioned the Atkins wheat-free low carb recipe for waffles, and I would
like to comment. I am not picking on Eva! Lots of people on the list have
mentioned such products, and it concerns me.
The O diet is about eating meat protein. Other foods such as soy or grain,
are only secondary sources of trace amounts of protein. It’s not the same
thing and it won’t give you optimal health.
Eva has brought up a crucial point, which is quality of life. Who wants to
live to be 100 if each day is torture? For this reason, I’m not sure everyone
can or should go 100%, or set themselves up to expect that of themselves. I
personally adhere close to full compliance, but I did not initially set out to
do that, for the same reason Eva says. I “re-wrote” my own food pyramid. Any
food I really loved was on the pyramid. I did not “give up” any food I
loved. However, if the food was an “avoid”, I did put it at the top of the
pyramid, and ate only very small amounts. If the food was a neutral, it could
still
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This is from Dr. Andrew Weil’s weekly newsletter:
“Mercury from Fish May Damage Babies’ Hearts, Brains
If you’re pregnant, keep the lid on that can of tuna! Results of a
new study show that mercury from fish - including canned tuna - can
lead to irreparable brain and heart damage for babies exposed to
mercury in the womb. (High levels of mercury are most common in tuna,
swordfish and other large predator fish.)
“The study, published in the February 2004 Journal of Pediatrics,
documented neurological irregularities among 1,000 mothers and their
children in Denmark’s Faroe Islands, where the local diet includes
large amounts of mercury-contaminated fish. Researchers linked the
abnormalities to problems with irregularities in heart function that
affect the body’s oxygen supply.
“Mercury poisoning in fish, caused by coal-burning power plants, is a
problem in the United States, too. A new U.S. Environmental
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:17:50 -0000
From: “sephfx” <sephfx@…
Subject: Most up to date book?
Hmm. Sephardic Fixation?
I just started drifting through here, looking through some posts from the 7th or
8th of this month. Now it is Valentine’s Day. 2004.
I’m sorry I’ve been away for so long. Not writing as much. I guess I’ve been too
busy with introspection and coming to grips with my “issues”. <sigh
Looks good.
Dude, Thomas (Dickheady), reading through you when you 31oz - 8oz = 56g was a
blast. I was stoned and even *I* saw it, I knew exactly what was wrong with it
and then (Max?) it was corrected. Takes a while for us (the group) to get a
thought process through so it doesn’t matter, maybe more good than harm, eh?
[LOL]
So I’m up to 630 pounds on that funny 45 degree squat machine thingy. So fun.
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I don’t know! They are delicious, especially if you chill them, while still
crispy, after cooking and make a salad of green and wax beans by adding a
little of your homemade compliant dressing. However, our emphasis for healthy
eating should be to eat lots of dark leafy greens. So, the green bean does not
qualify, and would not be appropriate as a diet staple. Certainly, it’s ok to
have some once in awhile, but you wouldn’t want to eat it to the exclusion of
the more beneficial vegetables.

Liked Joy’s post. Now we can all ponder the soda machines in the middle and
high schools across the country. I graduted in mid-80s and back then we only
had plain milk, choc milk, orange drink (garbage) during lunch times, or
water fountains (available all day) for our liquids. At least in my town
they are NOT yet in the elementary school. I think the whole thing is
horrid. I also heard on a health radio show that in response to the AAPs
recent recommendation not to have soda selling in American schools, that
Pepsi has changed over to sports drinks. The Dr. then compared and found
that the calories were equal or within 15 calories of the soda and most all
had more sugars than the Pepsi. V8 was the only decent one and he snickered
that no kid would be drinking that in school or else they’d be beat up or
teased by their peers. Lastly, Mothering magazine recently had a feature on
healthy eating for school lunches, as also did Martha Stewart’s TV show
although both are very much not the norm (serving organic foods, local
produce, good nutritional content, ethnic variety meals, etc.)
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Hi everyone,
I was just looking over some information on juicers and found this recipe. I
thought those of you who have a juicer and like V-8 juice might like to try
this.
TOMATO-VEGGIE JUICE:
by Vickilynn Haycraft
Makes 16 ounces
2 ripe tomatoes
2 garlic cloves
1 handful fresh spinach
1 large organic carrot
1/4 vidalia onion
1 large rib celery
2 teaspoons lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste
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Eva, it sounds like you are in good health except for your digestive problems.
Grains and dairy/soy will aggravate that, as will any mass-produced packaged
products.
Concentrate on getting your carbs from vegetables, not grains. Sweet
potatoes and other vegetables can give you the carbs you need. If you are
healthy
and at a good weight, and not real active, then keep your protein/carb/fat
ratios at current levels. But do consider substitutes for the foods you are
eating
that are causing you to have these problems. A diet of meat and vegetables
exclusively should alleviate much of your discomfort. Try to make everything
fresh.
I think you said the big guy eats any leftovers you make, so it’s hard to
cook in advance. Two suggestions. First, make MORE. Second, explain to the
big
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