Blood Type?

[djkvan]

Yeah. All part of life I guess.

[panacea]

Why would you want to put the bogus blood type idea to a bullshit test of a few wai dieters (as no one has the required things you listed but a few people who even read here, and that is far too small a number of people to get a conclusion from) and 'bet on it' if you don't agree with it and realize it's total nonsense? Again, other species with different blood types eat the same diet, there is absolutely NO evidence that humans were all one blood type in different regions, and blood type has no scientific correlation to diet. This is as ridiculous as saying that natural hair color indicates what we are supposed to eat and taking a poll on peoples hair color and saying 'oh if you're a natural brunette you must be great at eating meat'.

[panacea]

Well it's your lucky day djkvan, someone put this to an extensive test. It was quickly debunked as a total bullshit, disinformation, useless babble that hurts people, completely stupid to post more of it on the web type deal, no surprise.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/heal ... -myth.html

PEOPLE GROUP O A B AB
Aborigines 61 39 0 0
Abyssinians 43 27 25 5
Ainu (Japan) 17 32 32 18
Albanians 38 43 13 6
Grand Andamanese 9 60 23 9
Arabs 34 31 29 6
Armenians 31 50 13 6
Asian (in USA) 40 28 27 5
Austrians 36 44 13 6
Bantus 46 30 19 5
Basques 51 44 4 1
Belgians 47 42 8 3
Blackfoot (N. Am. Indian)17 82 0 1
Bororo (Brazil) 100 0 0 0
Brazilians 47 41 9 3
Bulgarians 32 44 15 8
Burmese 36 24 33 7
Buryats (Siberia) 33 21 38 8
Bushmen 56 34 9 2
Chinese-Canton 46 23 25 6
Chinese-Peking 29 27 32 13
Chuvash 30 29 33 7
Czechs 30 44 18 9
Danes 41 44 11 4
Dutch 45 43 9 3
Egyptians 33 36 24 8
English 47 42 9 3
Eskimos (Alaska) 38 44 13 5
Eskimos (Greenland) 54 36 23 8
Estonians 34 36 23 8
Fijians 44 34 17 6
Finns 34 41 18 7
French 43 47 7 3
Georgians 46 37 12 4
Germans 41 43 11 5
Greeks 40 42 14 5
Gypsies (Hungary) 29 27 35 10
Hawaiians 37 61 2 1
Hindus (Bombay) 32 29 28 11
Hungarians 36 43 16 5
Icelanders 56 32 10 3
Indians (India - General)37 22 33 7
Indians (USA - General) 79 16 4 1
Irish 52 35 10 3
Italians (Milan) 46 41 11 3
Japanese 30 38 22 10
Jews (Germany) 42 41 12 5
Jews (Poland) 33 41 18 8
Kalmuks 26 23 41 11
Kikuyu (Kenya) 60 19 20 1
Koreans 28 32 31 10
Lapps 29 63 4 4
Latvians 32 37 24 7
Lithuanians 40 34 20 6
Malasians 62 18 20 0
Maoris 46 54 1 0
Mayas 98 1 1 1
Moros 64 16 20 0
Navajo (N. Am. Indian)73 27 0 0
Nicobarese (Nicobars) 74 9 15 1
Norwegians 39 50 8 4
Papuas (New Guinea) 41 27 23 9
Persians 38 33 22 7
Peru (Indians) 100 0 0 0
Philippinos 45 22 27 6
Poles 33 39 20 9
Portuguese 35 53 8 4
Rumanians 34 41 19 6
Russians 33 36 23 8
Sardinians 50 26 19 5
Scotts 51 34 12 3
Serbians 38 42 16 5
Shompen (Nicobars) 100 0 0 0
Slovaks 42 37 16 5
South Africans 45 40 11 4
Spanish 38 47 10 5
Sudanese 62 16 21 0
Swedes 38 47 10 5
Swiss 40 50 7 3
Tartars 28 30 29 13
Thais 37 22 33 8
Turks 43 34 18 6
Ukrainians 37 40 18 6
United Kingdom (GB) 47 42 8 3
USA (US blacks) 49 27 20 4
USA (US whites) 45 40 11 4
USA Blood Types 44 42 10 4
Vietnamese 42 22 30 5

This list seems to throw everything off if we are to believe that O types have to eat lots of meat, and A types have to eat lots of grains and very little meat.

By this we see that Greenland Eskimos should be eating meat and Alaska Eskimos should be eating grain, yet both eat a meat based diet. We also see that the Cantonese should be eating a meat based diet, but that the people of Peking should be eating grains, but both eat mostly plant based diets.

We also see that Scandinavians all are Type A even though they have a traditionally meat centered diet. Especially the Lapps who have little access to food other than reindeer meat yet they are 60% type A.

[djkvan]

I realize that there is a lack of evidence to support blood type dieting. I just find it interesting that I have a problem with many of the foods that are supposedly bad for my type, and that I noted these problems prior to my knowledge of blood type dieting. Coincidence could certainly explain this, I agree. I wanted to get an idea of the blood types of those who have had long-term success on this diet as a reference point. I admit that my interest in this area is more for entertainment, though it probably should be entirely for entertainment's sake. I found it interesting that the respondents in the earliest part of this thread were pretty much all b's, but four or five is a pitifully small sample to work with.

I'm not sure about the accuracy of the figures you have presented as at least one that I noted was representative of over 110% of a population, but I take your point.

there is absolutely NO evidence that humans were all one blood type in different regions

It seems interesting to note that there are populations which have incredibly skewed numbers (e.g. Bororo (Brazil) 100 0 0 0; Mayas 98 1 1 1; Peru (Indians) 100 0 0 0; Shompen (Nicobars) 100 0 0 0). I would guess that these groups were indigenous to their region and engaged in virtually no reproduction with neighboring cultures. The antigenic substances that are inherited by a specific blood type would serve an adaptive function which I can only assume compliments the organism's environmental circumstances if form truly equals function. So I still maintain that blood type has something to do with native environment and available food supply.

As human development seems to progress from simple to complex it could be argued that over time there is a layering of antigens that occurs in populations as they are exposed to more and more environmental stimuli. This refinement would be passed on to the subsequent generations via colostrum and regular breast feeding primarily. I being adopted just ten days after birth and immediately put on similac and subsequently pablum am likely to have what is referred to as an infantile digestive system. It is therefore possible that I lack the immune refinements of my parents and that I have the default characteristics of my blood type. O+ and A+ appear to dominate the spectrum, as per wiki:

ABO IgM antibodies are produced in the first years of life by sensitization to environmental substances such as food, bacteria, and viruses.

Blood group B has its highest frequency in Northern India and neighboring Central Asia, and its incidence diminishes both towards the west and the east, falling to single digit percentages in Spain.[47][48] It is believed to have been entirely absent from Native American and Australian Aboriginal populations prior to the arrival of Europeans in those areas.[48][49]

Blood group A is associated with high frequencies in Europe, especially in Scandinavia and Central Europe, although its highest frequencies occur in some Australian Aborigine populations and the Blackfoot Indians of Montana.[50][51]

Country↓ Population[16]↓ O+↓ A+↓ B+↓ AB+↓ O-↓ A-↓ B-↓ AB-↓
Australia[17] 21,000,000 40% 31% 5% 2% 9% 7% 2% 1%
Austria[18] 8,210,281 30% 33% 12% 6% 7% 8% 3% 1%
Belgium[19] 10,414,336 38% 34% 8.5% 4.1% 7% 6% 1.5% 0.8%
Brazil[20] 198,739,269 36% 34% 8% 2.5% 9% 8% 2% 0.5%
Canada[21] 33,487,208 39% 36% 7.6% 2.5% 7% 6% 1.4% 0.5%
Denmark[22] 5,500,510 35% 37% 8% 4% 6% 7% 2% 1%
Estonia[23] 1,299,371 30% 31% 20% 6% 4.5% 4.5% 3% 1%
Finland[24] 5,250,275 27% 38% 15% 7% 4% 6% 2% 1%
France[25] 62,150,775 36% 37% 9% 3% 6% 7% 1% 1%
Germany[26] 82,329,758 35% 37% 9% 4% 6% 6% 2% 1%
Hong Kong [27] 7,055,071 40% 26% 27% 7% 0.31% 0.19% 0.14% 0.05%
Hungary[28] 10,198,315 31% 38% 18.8% 12.2%
Iceland[29] 306,694 47.6% 26.4% 9.3% 1.6% 8.4% 4.6% 1.7% 0.4%
India[30] 1,166,079,217 36.5% 22.1% 30.9% 6.4% 2.0% 0.8% 1.1% 0.2%
Iran 77,891,220
Ireland[31] 4,203,200 47% 26% 9% 2% 8% 5% 2% 1%
Israel[32] 7,233,701 32% 34% 17% 7% 3% 4% 2% 1%
Netherlands[33] 16,715,999 39.5% 35% 6.7% 2.5% 7.5% 7% 1.3% 0.5%
New Zealand[34] 4,213,418 38% 32% 9% 3% 9% 6% 2% 1%
Norway[35] 4,660,539 34% 40.8% 6.8% 3.4% 6% 7.2% 1.2% 0.6%
Poland[36] 38,482,919 31% 32% 15% 7% 6% 6% 2% 1%
Portugal[37] 10,707,924 36.2% 39.8% 6.6% 2.9% 6.0% 6.6% 1.1% 0.5%
Saudi Arabia[38] 28,686,633 48% 24% 17% 4% 4% 2% 1% 0.23%
South Africa[39] 49,320,000 39% 32% 12% 3% 7% 5% 2% 1%
Spain[40] 48,125,002 36% 34% 8% 2.5% 9% 8% 2% 0.5%
Sweden[41] 9,433,875 32% 37% 10% 5% 6% 7% 2% 1%
Taiwan[42] 24,000,000 43.9% 25.9% 23.9% 6.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.01% 0.02%
Turkey[43] 76,805,524 29.8% 37.8% 14.2% 7.2% 3.9% 4.7% 1.6% 0.8%
United Kingdom[44] 61,113,205 37% 35% 8% 3% 7% 7% 2% 1%
United States[45] 307,212,123 37.4% 35.7% 8.5% 3.4% 6.6% 6.3% 1.5% 0.6%
Population-weighted mean (total population = 2,261,025,244) 36.44% 28.27% 20.59% 5.06% 4.33% 3.52% 1.39% 0.45%

[Mia]

O+

Is there any truth in the blood typ diet?
I feel that most of it is really nothing worth paying attention to.

But when D´Adamo says that in type O, orange juice increase polyamine or indican level... what does that mean?

[RRM]

Is there any truth in the blood typ diet?

No, Its not worth your time, really.
The only reason why this thread is still here,
is because if someone new brings it up once again,
we can refer that person to this thread and say: "its not worth your time.".

[Mia]

Ok, thank you!
Will definitely not waste more time on it!!!

[Emeira]

O+

[RRM]

To my surprise, some scientists actually tested the blood-type diet.
And of course, "Matching the ‘Blood-Type’ diets with the corresponding blood group did not change the effect size of any of these associations".
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[Oscar]

Hahaha