interesting articles - Dieting by Blood Types.

Type O

Your Diet: Diet with lots of meat content.
Type Os thrive on intense physical exercise and animal protein. The success of the Type O Diet depends on your use of lean, chemical-free meats, poultry, and fish. Type Os don’t find dairy products and grains as user friendly as do most of the other blood types because their digestive systems still have not adapted to them fully.

Foods that encourage weight loss:
** Kelp: Contains iodine.Increases thyroid hormone production.
** Seafood: Contains iodine. Increases thyroid hormone production.
** Iodized Salt: Increases thyroid hormone production, contains iodine. (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).
** Liver: B-vitamin source, aids efficient metabolism.
** Red Meat: Aids efficient metabolism.
** Kale, Spinach, Broccoli: Aid efficient metabolism.

Foods that encourage weight gain:
* Wheat Gluten: Interferes with insulin efficiency, slows metabolic rate.
* Corn: Interferes with insulin efficiency, slows metabolic rate.
* Kidney Beans: Impair calorie utilization.* Navy Beans: Impair calorie utilization.
* Lentils: Inhibit proper nutrient metabolism.
* Cabbage: Inhibits thyroid hormone.
* Brussels Sprouts: Inhibits thyroid hormone.
* Cauliflower: Inhibits thyroid hormone.
* Mustard Greens: Inhibit thyroid production.


Type A
Your Diet: Mainly vegetarian diet.
Type A flourish on vegetarian diets – the inheritance of their more settled and less warlike farmer ancestors. It is particularly important for sensitive Type As to get their foods in as natural a state as possible: fresh, pure and organic.
Foods that encourage weight loss:
** Vegetable oils: Aid efficient digestion, prevent fluid retention.
** Soy foods: Efficient digestion, metabolize quickly, optimize immune function.
** Vegetables: Aid efficient metabolism, increase intestinal mobility.
** Pineapple: Increases calorie utilization, increases intestinal mobility.

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: Interfere with digestive enzymes, slow metabolic rate.
* Wheat: (in overabundance) impairs calorie utilization.


Type B
Your Diet: Emphasis is on dairy products.
Type B can best be described as idiosyncratic – with utterly unique and sometimes chameleonlike characteristics. On the whole, the sturdy and alert Type Bs are usually able to resist many of the most severe diseases common to modern life. Yet because Type Bs are somewhat offbeat, their systems seem more prone to exotic immune-system disorders, such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Foods that encourage weight loss:
** Green vegetables: Aid efficient metabolism.
** Meat(Except Chicken): Aid efficient metabolism.
** Liver: Aid 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.)

Foods that encourage weight gain:
* Corn: Inhibits insulin efficiency, hampers metabolic rate, causes hypoglycemia.
* Lentils: Inhibit proper nutrient uptake, hamper metabolic efficiency, cause hypoglycemia.
* Peanuts: Hamper metabolic efficiency, cause hypoglycemia, inhibit liver function.
* Sesame seeds: Hamper metabolic efficiency, cause hypoglycemia.


Type AB
Your Diet: A combination of vegetables and dairy products.
Blood Type AB is less than a thousands years old, rare (2 – 5% of the population), and biologically complex. Type AB Diet requires that you read your foods lists very carefully, and familiarize yourself with both the Type A and Type B diets to better understand the parameters of your own diet.
Foods that encourage weight loss:
** Tofu.
** Seafood.
** Dairy.
** Greens.
** Kelp.
** Pineapple.
Foods that encourage weight gain:
* Red Meat: Poorly digested, stored as fat, toxifies intestinal tract.
* Seeds: Cause hypoglycemia.
* Kidney Beans: Inhibit insulin efficiency, cause hypoglycemia, slow metabolic rate.
* Lima Beans: Inhibit insulin efficiency, cause hypoglycemia, slow metabolic rate.
* Wheat: Decreases metabolism, inefficient use of calories, inhibits insulin efficiency.
* Buckwheat: Causes hypoglycemia.
* Corn: Inhibits insulin efficiency.