Tag: Blood Type

Studies reveal people with non-O blood group have a higher risk of getting a heart attack and developing cardiovascular diseases. Blood types AB and A have an increased risk of developing stomach cancer and type O was associated with a risk of peptic ulcers. Another study revealed people with AB blood type have a higher risk of memory loss as they get older.

A blood type diet can give you personalized nutrition and specific lifestyle guidelines. This gives you a better chance to regulate blood sugar levels. It is designed to be low in harmful lectins, and to emphasize the foods that are easier for your body to digest, and limits the foods that are harder on your body.

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Minimize joint inflammation to enable free movement of bones. Keep off foods containing harmful lectins (specific to blood types): wheat, corn, and white potatoes for type O; red meat, cow’s milk, and kidney beans for type A; chicken, peanuts, and buckwheat for type B; chicken, bell peppers, sesame oils and seeds for type AB. Aerobics and strength training build lean muscle while reducing joint swelling.

Blood type affects the type and amount of allergy-causing lectins circulating in the blood stream. Type As have higher levels of selectin (a substance that increases inflammation) and produce more mucus. Type Bs are prone to viral infections and lung inflammation, including asthma. Type Os tend to have higher levels of overall inflammation. Type ABs are relatively less prone to allergies.

Type O should avoid dairy, wheat and consume lean meat, cold-water fish, and green tea. Type A should avoid animal proteins and fresh milk, limit grains, and include cold-water fish in their diet. Type B should avoid wheat, corn, peanuts, chicken and include lean organic meat and yogurt. Type AB should avoid red meat, chicken, corn flour and consume soy and seafood.

The four blood types affect the immune system. Under stress, As and Bs secrete high levels of cortisol, while Os and ABs produce excess adrenaline that can be stabilized with exercise. High cortisol levels in As and Bs slows metabolism, growth, and repair. Lectins react with blood type antigens in the gut and cause sluggish digestion, lesser energy generation and fatigue.

All blood types should regularly eat oily cold-water fish, fruits and vegetables and replace coffee with green tea. B and O types should have moderate amounts of lean, organic meat and limit dairy, wheat and beans. B types should avoid chicken, corn, buckwheat, peanuts, lentils, and potatoes. A and AB types should have cultured dairy, beans and soy, avoid red meat and limit wheat.

A and AB types tend to have high cholesterol levels, and are more prone to blood clot formation and arterial inflammation. In O and B types, a low-fat, high-carb diet can lead to increase in triglyceride levels, blood sugar, blood pressure and abdominal fat. For a healthy heart, A types need gentle exercise, B and AB types need moderate exercise and O types need high intensity exercise.

Type O should avoid wheat, soy ad peanuts. Type A should avoid tomato and egg plant. Type B, chicken and soy and Type AB chicken and bell peppers. These foods have lectins specific to blood types, avoiding them provides optimal lectin-blocking nutrition and offers protection against the negative effects of dietary lectins.

Your blood type determines: your susceptibility to certain diseases; your reaction to stress; the type of antigens present in vital organs; assimilation and absorption of nutrition; type of gut bacteria and digestive enzymes. Choosing foods as per your blood type helps promote optimal gut health, improve vitality, lose weight, reduce inflammation, increase energy, and health.