BEGINNER PART 2 EAT RIGHT

After understanding the history and evolution of blood type and the basic theory of agglutination, the next step is to discover the effects of food lectins on our body.

Lectins: The Diet Connection

A chemical reaction occurs between your blood and the foods that you eat. This reaction is part of your genetic inheritance. It is amazing but true that today, in the late twentieth century, your immune and digestive systems still maintain a favouritism for foods that your blood type ancestors ate.

Lectins, abundant & diverse proteins found in foods, have agglutinating properties that affect your blood. Lectins are a powerful way for organisms to attach themselves to other organisms in nature. Lots of germs, and even our immune systems, used this superglue to their benefit. For example, cells in our liver’s bile ducts have lectins on their surfaces to help them snatch up bacteria and parasites. Bacteria and other microbes have lectins on their surfaces, as well, which work rather like suction cups, so they can attach to the slippery mucosal lining of the body.

When you eat a food containing protein lectins that are incompatible with your blood type antigen, the lectins target an organ or bodily systems (kidney, liver, brain, stomach, etc) and begin to agglutinate blood cells in that area. Many food lectins have characteristics that are close enough to a certain blood type antigen to make it an ‘enemy’ to another. For example, milk has B-like qualities, if a person with Type A blood drinks it, their system will immediately start the agglutinating process and reject it.

Good and Bad about Lectins

GOOD: Agglutinate with other germs and harmful invaders for proper removal by the immune systems. This happens when cancer cells or a population of pathogens forced to stick together for better disposal by natural defense system.

BAD: Food that renders beneficial for one blood type may be an ‘enemy’ to other blood type. Agglutination in long term will cause chronic problems such as diseases and complications to organs late in life.

The Basics of Beneficial, Neutral and Avoid (BNA in short)

In order to eat right for your blood type, foods are generally categorized in three main sections:

Beneficial / Highly Beneficial is a food that acts like a medicine.
Neutral is a food that acts like a food.
Avoid is a food that acts like a poison.

There are a wide variety of foods in each diet, so don’t worry about limitations. When possible, show preference for the highly beneficial foods over the neutral foods, but feel free to enjoy the neutral foods that suits you; they won’t harm you from the standpoint of lectins, and they contain nutrients that are necessary for a balanced diet.

The Basics of Nutrition

Many theories evolved in the recent years on what is the optimal combination of protein, carbohydrate and fats that will produce optimal health. Many swayed towards the interest of weight loss. If we look back at the entire civilization and study how mankind adapted their diets for the purpose of survival and compare it with the time-line of blood type-anthropology, we will clearly realize and appreciate why a single diet plan cannot satisfy everyone.

40% fruits & vegetables	70% fruits & vegetables	54% fruits, vegetables & grains	60% fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts
40% meat protein	21% soy, nuts & little fish and poultry	33% lean meat & dairy products	20% meat
20% oil	9% oil	13% oil	20% oil

Ground Zero

Everyone who is interested in blood type diet begins at different level of so-called compliance and different state of health. In order to reap remarkable benefits from your individualized blood type diet, you must first restore or undo the damages to achieve the neutral or ground zero state. This can be done by either a strict adhesion to the recommended diet and/or a combination of supplements to help you tie through, especially when the beneficial foods are not readily available or certain constraints like religion that forbid your change in diet.

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THE BLOOD TYPE PLAN

1. THE BLOOD TYPE O PLAN

The Type O Diet

Type Os thrive on intense physical exercise and animal protein. The digestive tracts of Type O retain the memory of ancient times. The high-protein hunter-gatherer diet and the enormous physical demands placed on the systems of early Type Os probably kept most primitive humans in a mild state of ketosis – a condition in which the body’s metabolism is altered. The combination of ketosis, calorie deprivation and constant physical activity made for a lean, mean hunting machine – the key to the survival of the human race. The success of Type O diet depends on your use of lean, organic meats, poultry and fish. Type Os don’t find dairy products and grains quite as user-friendly as most of the other blood types because the Type O digestive systems have still not adapted to them fully.

The Weight Loss Factor

Foods that encourage weight gain:

Wheat Gluten
slows metabolic rate interferes with insulin efficiency
Corn

Kidney Beans impair calorie utilization
Navy Beans
Lentils inhibit proper nutrient metabolism
Cabbage inhibits thyroid hormone
Brussels Sprouts
Cauliflower
Mustard Greens inhibit thyroid production

Foods that encourage weight loss:

Kelp contains iodine
increase thyroid hormone production
Seafood
* Iodized Salt

Liver B-vitamin source, aids efficient metabolism
Red Meat (lean, organic)
Kale, Spinach, Broccoli

* It is preferable that you obtain your iodine from sources such as seafood and kelp, as sodium can contribute to high blood pressure and water retention.

Type O Supplement Advisory

The role of supplements – be they vitamins, minerals or herbs – is to add the nutrients that are lacking in your diet and to provide extra protection where you need it. The supplement focus for Type Os include:

1. Supercharging the metabolism with B-vitamins.
2. Increasing low blood clotting activity with Vitamin K foods.
3. Prevention of inflammations by adequate enzymes and right diet.
4. Stabilizing the thyroid with high iodine foods.

2. THE BLOOD TYPE A PLAN

The Type A Diet

Type As flourish on vegetarian diets – the inheritance of their more settled and less warlike farming ancestors. It is particularly important for sensitive Type As to get their foods in as natural state as possible: fresh, pure and organic. Opposite to Type O, Type A tend to have low stomach acid, which high protein from meat source will make them sluggish, fatigue and more prone to stomach diseases such as cancer. They store meat as fat. Dairy foods are also poorly digested by Type A because they provoke insulin reactions – another factor in metabolic slowdowns. Wheat is a mixed factor for them, but has to be moderate because wheat is acidic in Type A, but alkaline in Type O.

The Weight Loss Factor

Foods that encourage weight gain:

Meat poorly digested
stored as fat
increases digestive toxins
Dairy Foods inhibit nutrient metabolism
increases mucous secretions
Kidney Beans interfere with digestive enzymes

slow metabolic rate

Lima Beans

Wheat (in over-abundance) impairs calorie utilization

Foods that encourage weight loss:

Vegetable oils aid efficient digestion
prevent fluid retention
Soy foods aid efficient digestion

metabolize quickly

optimize immune function
Vegetables aid efficient metabolism
increase intestinal mobility
Pineapple increases calorie utilization
increases intestinal mobility

Type A Supplement Advisory

The role of supplements – be they vitamins, minerals or herbs – is to add the nutrients that are lacking in your diet and to provide extra protection where you need it. The supplement focus for Type As include:

1. Supercharging the immune system
2. Supplying cancer fighting antioxidants
3. Preventing infections
4. Strengthening the heart

3. THE BLOOD TYPE B PLAN

The Type B Diet

Type O and Type A seem to be polar opposites in many respects. But Type B can best be described as idiosyncratic – with utterly unique and sometimes chameleon-like characteristics. In many respects, Type B resembles Type O so much that the two seem related. Then suddenly, Type B will take on a totally unfamiliar shape – one that is peculiarly its own. The Type B diet is balanced and wholesome, including a wide variety of foods. It represents ‘the best of the animal and vegetable kingdoms’. Think of B as balancing the forces of A and O.

The Weight Loss Factor

Foods that encourage weight gain:

Corn inhibits insulin efficiency
hampers metabolic rate
causes hypoglycemia
Lentils inhibit proper nutrient uptake
hamper metabolic efficiency
causes hypoglycemia
Peanuts hamper metabolic efficiency
cause hypoglycemia
inhibit liver function
Sesame seeds hamper metabolic efficiency
cause hypoglycemia
Buckwheat inhibits digestion
hampers metabolic efficiency
causes hypoglycemia
Wheat slows the digestive and metabolic processes
causes food to be stores as fat, not burned as energy
inhibits insulin efficiency

Foods that encourage weight loss:

Green vegetables aid efficient metabolism
Meat aid efficient metabolism
Liver aids efficient metabolism
Eggs/ Low-Fat Dairy products aid efficient metabolism
*Licorice Tea counters hypoglycemia
*Never take licorice supplements without a doctor’s supervision. Licorice tea is okay.

Type B Supplement Advisory

The role of supplements – be they vitamins, minerals or herbs – is to add the nutrients that are lacking in your diet and to provide extra protection where you need it. The supplement focus for Type Bs include:

1. Fine tuning an already balanced diet.
2. Improving insulin production
3. Strengthening viral immunity
4. Improving brain clarity and focus

4. THE BLOOD TYPE AB PLAN

The Type AB Diet

Multiple antigens make Type ABs sometimes A-like, sometimes B-like and sometimes a fusion of both – kind of a blood type centaur. This multiplicity of qualities can be positive or negative, depending on the circumstances, so the Type AB diet requires careful reading of food lists, and familiarization with both the Type A and Type B diets to better understand the parameters of this diet. Essentially, most foods which are not recommended for either Type A or Type B are probably bad for Type AB, although there are some exceptions (e.g. tomato tolerable for Type O and AB, not for A and B).

The Weight Loss Factor

Foods that encourage weight gain:

Red Meat (O) poorly digested
stored as fat
toxic to intestinal tract
Kidney beans (O) inhibit insulin efficiency
cause hypoglycemia
slow metabolic rate
Lima beans (A) inhibit insulin efficiency
cause hypoglycemia
slow metabolic rate
Seeds (B) cause hypoglycemia
Corn (B, O) inhibits insulin efficiency
Buckwheat (B) causes hypoglycemia
Wheat (majority) decreases metabolism
inefficient use of calories
inhibits insulin efficiency

Foods that encourage weight loss:

Tofu (majority) promote metabolic efficiency
Seafood (O) promote metabolic efficiency
Kelp (O) improve insulin production
Dairy (B) improve insulin production
Vegetables (majority) promote metabolic efficiency
Pineapple (majority) aids digestion, stimulates intestinal mobility
Alkaline-forming foods increase muscle alkalinity

Type AB Supplement Advisory

The role of supplements – be they vitamins, minerals or herbs – is to add the nutrients that are lacking in your diet and to provide extra protection where you need it. The supplement focus for Type ABs include:

1. Supercharging the immune system
2. Supplying cancer-fighting antioxidants
3. Strengthening the heart