Saturday, February 10, 2007

Type O negative

I have had this debate about the blood type diet with my best friend Kim since Dr. Peter D'Adamo wrote the book Eat Right for your Type, the blood type diet book.
I have been a practicing vegan for 2 years until recently.
Since this past holiday season I added tuna to my diet, as Kim had visited before Thanksgiving and we had again engaged in this debate. Kim is a type A blood type, and it was her vegan example that inspired me to be vegan.
I told Kim that I felt like I was eating too much soy and was bloating from it, Kim again suggested the blood type diet, and that I should think about eating meat- beef - and see how it made me feel.
Just the last week, the opportunity presented itself. I was at a gala at the Waldorf Astoria for the Citizens Committe of NY with my girlfriend and a filet Mignon was placed in front of me. I had said to my girlfriend that I wanted to eat it. It wasn't this earth shattering event at first, but the next day I noticed that my belly had gotten smaller, it was funny.

So now I am no longer vegan and I think there is something to this blood type diet- if it is practiced correctly.
I still feel like I am betraying some vegan cause- even though that was not why I went vegan in the first place- i did it for health-not to save the planet. How weird that it turns out to be healthy for me to eat red meat!

What I find myself eating when I have beef, there is no grain, but salad- thai salad and beef, specifically cilantro and beef is what I eat. I do not want to eat chicken- chicken is neutral and for that matter I 'd rather have the tofu andjust not over do it.
But I find it strange that red meat is healthy for me after following a vegan diet. I did not think I would be on this side of the debate-ever! There is also the fact that my family's medical history weighs heavy on my mind and makes me not want to eat red meat often.
Eventually, I am going to seek the services of a blood type diet practitioner and try to strike a balance that is right for me, I am serious about my health, it seems 2007 has brought health issues into the foreground, and I am addressing them.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, you're really back on the Meat Train? Welcome aboard.

No Agenda said...

Yeah- steaks and brews all around on your next NYC trip--Smith or no Smith!!

Anonymous said...

Hello, I'm not vegan, but a long-time lacto-vegetarian. Just wanted to add a recent experience of my own for those vegetarians thinking of moving back to meat because of the blood type diet. I ate some noodles at a Chinese noodle shop here in Beijing. My friend ordered for me, and wasn't careful to make sure it was veggie, she only asked that they don't put meat in it...they made the noodles with beef broth. I gave it a go, and was quite unwell for the next day or so.

I went veggie for philisophical reasons, so even my blood type calls for meat, I'm not sure I'll eat it, but I really would like to see some decent research into this diet. It seems that everything I read is based on individual stories rather than real studies. Even Dr. D'Adamo when asked in an interview about vegetarian type O's doesn't quote research, but an anecdote.

View the interview here.

Anonymous said...

The blood type diet is absolute bullshit, I'm O- & according to that diet I should be carnivorous, I feel better on a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, I have more physical energy & mental stanima than anybody I know.
Most geniuses Tesla, Einstein, the Pythagoreans etc. that have advanced the world were vegetarian, & some of the top athletes in the world are vegetarian.

The reason you felt bloated is because of gas & the rest is in your head, you just wanna eat meat & are justifying it with type diet nonsense.

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