Eating your blood type diet has a host of benefits

The craze of diets is a fairly new one as before the20th century; no one really cared about diets. The dieting revolution has become so popular in the world mainly due to increased globalization and the media culture that has made the world a smaller place. Due to the long reaching arms of the media which have made people more aware about everything in the world, the awareness about good health and fitness also increased multifold, especially after the whole celebrity culture started trending in the later half of the 20th century.

There are numerous kinds of diets, some which prove effective for some people while most don’t. The answer to why some people feel bloated, nauseous and other discomforts while others don’t could be given by the blood type diet. This recommends eating your blood type, that is, different kinds of diets should be consumed by people of varied blood groups such as A, B, AB and O. The theory that this diet is based on is that people are divided on the basis of their blood group and each has specific bodily needs which a common diet cannot fulfil. Thus a blood group specific diet works for the best and gives the body the necessary nutrition it needs, considering the bodies’ distinct characteristics, strengths and weaknesses.

Eat right for your blood type is a phrase coined by the author of Eat Right for Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight, Peter J. D’Adamo. He is the one who actively advocated eating your blood type in recent times through his works.

The theory that recommends you to eat right for your blood type stems from the work by William C. Boyd, an immunochemist and blood type anthropologist who made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood groups. In his 1950 book Genetics and the races of man: An introduction to modern physical anthropology, Boyd had described how through genetic analysis of blood groups, modern humans can be categorized into populations that differ according to their alleles. While the blood group O is described by D’Adamo as the hunter, the A group is said to be the agrarian or cultivator, the B group is the nomad and the AB one is the enigma.

This diet may suit those enthusiastic about a plan that doesn’t involve tracking calories or fat grams, while others may find it difficult to stay within the confines, a challenge made greater if more than one person in a household follows the diet and has a different blood type. This puts a lot of restrictions on people such as the barring of dairy and red meats for most blood groups. This plan has come under fire for categorizing the whole lot of people in the world into only 4 basic blood groups. However, the goal that this diet aims to achieve is to make people’s bodies free of lectins that are harmful elements which trigger chemical reactions that make the body prone to various ailments, discomforts and diseases.