Why Poison Yourself?
Use the Blood Type Food List.

Long before I heard of any blood type food list, I had been trained, and I had no reason to doubt, that overeating was the only poisonness activity connected with the dinner table. Not so, as you'll see.

After all, I thought that if I didn't eat too much, I was okay.

Food was nourishment: it provided calories for energy, protein for muscles, and vitamins and minerals to keep me healthy.

That was a simple time before I became aware of antioxidants, bioflavonoids, phytoneutrients, contamination, genetic predispositioning or DNA triggering.

Then, I read a book by Dr. Peter Adamo that seemed to add another complication that, depending on your blood type, some foods were good for you and some weren't.

Some foods acted like poisons, some like medicines and others like the plain old food I had thought all food was.

I didn't want that to be true. I wanted to eat whatever I darn well pleased.

I haven't completely made up my mind about that diet, but I am following it as an experiment and I use my blood type food list.

I'll just give you a sampling for each blood type. For a complete blood type food list, get a copy of Adamo's book "Eat Right 4 Your Type."

Type O: Avoid - pork and goose, catfish and pickled herring, blue cheese and cottage cheese, Corn oil and safflower oil, peanuts and Brazil nuts, navy and kidney beans, cornflakes and oatmeal, wheat bread and muffins, wheat flour, avocado and cabbage, blackberries and oranges.

Beneficial - beef and lamb, salmon and sardines, olive and flax oils, pumpkin seeds and walnuts, pinto beans and black-eyed peas, Ezekiel and Essene bread, broccoli and romaine lettuce, plums and figs.

Neutral - chicken and duck, lobster and sea bass, butter and Mozzarella cheese, canola oil, almonds and pecans, black and green beans, rice and buckwheat, gluten-free bread and rye crisp, rice, celery and onions, apples and apricots.

Type A: Avoid - beef and pork, catfish and shrimp, blue cheese and butter, corn and safflower oils, cashews and pistachios, kidney and lima beans, granola and wheat bran, whole wheat and multi-grain breads, wheat flours, potatoes and tomatoes, bananas and mangoes.

Beneficial - salmon and red snapper, soy cheese and soy milk, olive and flax oils, peanuts and pumpkins seeds, lentils and black beans, amaranth and buckwheat, Ezekiel bread and rice cakes, rice and rye flour, carrots and spinach, cherries and pineapple.

Neutral - chicken and turkey, ocean perch and swordfish, yogurt and low fat ricotta cheese, canola oil, almonds and walnuts, string beans and snow peas, cornflakes and oatmeal, spelt bread and rye crisps, rice and barley, asparagus and corn, apples and pears.

Type B: Avoid - chicken and pork, clams and shrimp, blue cheese and ice cream, canola and safflower oils, cashews and peanuts, lentils and pinto beans, cornflakes and wheat bran, bagels and whole wheat bread, wheat and rye flours, artichokes and avocados, pomegranates and coconuts.

Beneficial - lamb and rabbit, cod and sardines, cottage cheese and yogurt, olive oil, kidney and lima beans, oatmeal and spelt, Ezekiel bread and brown rice bread, oat and rice flour, cabbage and peppers, bananas and grapes.

Neutral - beef and turkey, catfish and rainbow trout, cottage cheese and yogurt, flax and cod liver oils, almonds and pecans, green beans and green peas, granola and grape nuts, gluten-free bread and soy flour bread, rice and quinoa, celery and lettuce (all kinds), apples and melons.

Type AB: Avoid - beef and pork, clams and shrimp, blue cheese and ice cream, corn and sunflower oils, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, kidney and lima beans, cornflakes and kasha, corn muffins, barley flour and soba noodles, artichokes and corn, bananas and oranges,

Beneficial - lamb and turkey, cod and red snapper, cottage cheese and yogurt, olive oil, peanuts and walnuts, red and navy beans, oatmeal and rice cereals, Ezekiel bread and 100% rye breads, oat flour and rice, broccoli and sweet potatoes, grapes and grapefruit.

Neutral - liver and pheasant, catfish and salmon, cheddar and Swiss cheeses, almonds and cashews, green beans and green peas, barley and granola, bagels and whole wheat bread, wheat flour and quinoa, lettuce (all kinds) and onions, apples and melons.

Your blood type food list will contain many more foods.

Eating for your blood type should automatically provide you with foods that lower blood pressure naturally.

The reason for that lies in the theory. The red blood cells of the four blood types have different tags called antigens (as do other body cells). Type O has none. Type A has A antigen. Type B has B antigen, Type AB has both A and B antigen.

If a Type O person is given a transfusion of blood from a Type A person, the Type O's antibodies (cells that get rid of foreign material entering the body) will attack and agglutinate the Type A cells.

The Type A cell's antigens are what pull in the Type O antibodies for the attack. The Type O body then gets rid of the agglutinated material. Think of agglutination as a clumping together.

Foods don't contain antigens, but they do contain proteins called lectins, which mimic antigens in that they can agglutinate as well. If a particular food's lectin is similar to Type A antigen, that food will not be tolerated by Type O's because Type O's have antibodies that will target the lectin.

An example: Say you are Blood Type O and you eat pork. The pork lectins perhaps mimic Type A antigens, so the Type O antibodies will agglutinate them and prevent them from being utilized as food, instead targeting them for elimination. It's a bit like being sick.

This explanation is over simplified. See Dr. Adamo's book for a more accurate explanation.

So, that's the theory behind the blood type food list, but it leaves some questions unanswered.

Will beneficial foods nullify the effect of some harmful food? I think it will to a degree, but I have no proof of that.

Up until I read about the Blood Type Food List, I was eating avoid foods a lot. I'm not aware that it had a bad effect on me. Maybe, my young body could tolerate most anything.

Adamo does present case histories of people he's cured by switching them over to their blood type diet.

Most of the patients he mentioned were not young adults. They may not have had normal blood pressure to begin with, so their blood type diet might have provided foods that lower blood pressure naturally. Who knows.

All I can say at this point is that on my Type O diet, my weight and blood pressure are going down.

So in short, I think you could be doing a good thing for yourself by going on this high blood pressure diet and eating for your blood type.

So, consider this blood type food list and see what it does to give you a normal blood pressure.

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