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We all want to be healthy, or at least feel healthy. But why can two people do the same exercises, eat the same foods, have similar lifestyles and one be healthy and the other not? Some would say it is their genes and that has something to do with it but there is another major contributor; the persons blood type. In Dr. Peter J D’Adamo’s book Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight,he explains how your blood type determines which foods and even which exercises are best suited for you.

Have you heard all the success so many people have with the low carbohydrate, high protein diet, but when you try the diet you don’t lose much weight? That is because a low-carb, high-protein diet is the optimal diet for Type O blood (which is the most common blood type) and if you happen to have Type A blood that high protein diet will kill you. Type A does great with a vegetarian diet.

According to Dr. D’Adamo, Type O is the oldest blood type. It is the blood type of the hunter-gatherer and what did they eat and thrive on? Meat, poultry and fish along with nuts, berries and any wild edible plants they could find. The hunter-gatherer did not have dairy products or much in the way of grains.

Type A evolved out of Type O. These ancestors were less warlike and more settled than their Type O predecessors. Theses are the first farmers so Type A’s do well with a vegetarian diet. If you are a Type A, sticking to a diet high in vegetables, soy and pineapple but low- or no-meat, dairy, wheat and beans will cause the weight to slide off. If you grow it in your home garden, you can most likely eat it whereas a Type O could only eat the items that would naturally grow wild.

The next blood type to develop was Type B. These were the nomads and thrive on a more balanced diet. Type B is a balancing of the A and O types. Corn, buckwheat, lentils, peanuts and sesame seeds will cause a Type B to gain weight. Gee, I wish I was Type B it is a lot easier to avoid those items than all the grains a type O can’t eat. If you are a Type B and have trouble with your blood sugar levels – USE THIS DIET!

The last blood type is Type AB. This type has been around for less than a thousand years! It is the rarest of the blood types with only about 2 to 5 percent of the population having it. This is a complicated blood type. Type AB needs to avoid the foods that are bad for both Type A and Type B with a few exceptions such as tomatoes.

The book has a section for each blood type; explaining the best diet, with suggested meal plans and recipes. I have tried a number of the recipes and they have been excellent! Each blood type has a listing of foods that are categorized into meats, seafood, dairy, oils, etc. and then the foods in each category are divided into highly beneficial, neutral and “avoids”.

Being a Type O, I have found that when I stick with my high protein, low carb diet, it is easier to keep the weight off — and I feel better.