D     ESP

Blood group nutrition: introduce it step by step

Food has to be rated in a new way - effects and change step by step - ideas about food

by Michael Palomino (2006 / 2012)

from:
-- Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo / Catherine Whitney: 4 Blutgruppen. Vier Strategien für ein gesundes Leben. Mit Rezeptteil (Piper 2001) (orig. English: 4 Blood Types, 4 Programs. Live Right 4 Your Type)
-- Peter D'Adamo: 4 Blutgruppen - richtig leben. Das individuelle Konzept für körperliches und seelisches Wohlbefinden (Piper 2002) (orig. English: 4 Blood Types, 4 Diets. Eat Right 4 Your Type)

The principle of blood group nutrition: different enzymes reacting differently according to blood group

Many lectins [proteins of plants] are reacting differently when humans are eating them, according to blood groups, positively or negatively. When there is a negative reaction, these lectins
-- provoke an agglutination (conglomeration) of cells. The lectin is like a glue working like an "agglutinin"
-- or the lectin provokes that anti bodies are formed with an agglutinating effect
-- or the lectin provokes that blood cells are agglutinating (4 Strategien, p.400).


The rating of food: very good supporting the body, neutral, and to be eliminated

According to the different reactions of the lectins in the human body according to the blood groups, Dr. Peter D'Adamo is rating the food in "very good food, supporting the body"; in "neutral" food, and in "food to be eliminated" (4 Strategien, p.389).

D'Adamo:

"The very good food supporting the body is working like medicine for the body; the food which has to be eliminated has got an effect like a poison. Neutral food is working like normal food. Neutral food has not any positive effect on health, but the person is feeling well with them for sure because neutral food contains many nutrients which are needed by the body." (4 Strategien, p.389)

(orig. in German:
"Die sehr bekömmlichen Lebensmittel wirken wie Arzneien; die Nahrungsmittel, die man meiden soll, wirken wie Gifte. Die neutralen Lebensmittel wirken einfach wie Essen. Zwar haben die neutralen Nahrungsmittel wohl keine positiven Wirkungen auf die Gesundheit, aber sie tun Ihnen sicherlich gut in dem Sinn, dass sie viele Nährstoffe enthalten, die der Körper braucht." (4 Strategien, S.389)

Blood group nutrition can be introduced step by step

Blood group nutrition respectively blood group diet should be introduced step by step because the change will also be felt step by step, and any change is motivating one more change with some more food (4 Strategien, p.395). When a new balance of alimentation has been found, then it will also be possible to vary the diet plan sometimes. This is normal. Strict obedience of the plan is not normal (4 Strategien, p.386).

There are the following principles:

"Blood group diet should be a contribution to feel oneself well, not bad and not discriminated." (4 Strategien, p.386)

(orig. German:
"Die Blutgruppendiät soll dazu beitragen, dass Sie sich gut fühlen, nicht schlecht und benachteiligt." (4 Strategien, S.386).

And all variations of food should be used because for everybody will be something in it. Italian kitchen does not only consist in tomato sauce for example (4 Strategien, p.387).

Incompatible food has to stay out in the first phase of blood group nutrition. But when the change with blood group nutrition has been completed it can be that the first incompatible food is well compatible then. This counts e.g. for peanuts with blood group A (4 Strategien, p.388).

One should also eat from all sectors of food regularly. Dr. D'Adamo says:

"Try [...] that you eat food of all groups of food." (4 Strategien, p.389)

(orig. German:
"Versuchen Sie [...] möglichst gleichmässig Lebensmittel aus allen Nahrungsmittelgruppen zu verzehren." (4 Strategien, S.389)

Add to this it is better to eat little portions several times and not big portions only some few times per day. It is better to eat 5 to 7 times per week little portions concerning "medical food", because

"Following a quota 5 to 7 times per week the precious nutrients enter the blood constantly." (4 Strategien, p.389)

(orig. German:
"Dadurch sorgen Sie dafür, dass die wertvollsten Nährstoffe weiter gleichbleibend ins Blut gelangen." (4 Strategien, S.389)

Damaging food should be omitted, above all
-- when there is an allergy against some food
-- when there is an inflammation of the colon (4 Strategien, p.390).


Sour digestion of meat and basic (alkaline) digestion of bread or potatoes

It's not so good to eat animal protein and big quantities of carbohydrates at the same time. So, one should evade eating meat and big quantities of bread or potatoes at the same time, because
-- meat is digested in a strongly sour area
-- but carbohydrates are digested in a strongly basic (alkaline) area.

When both things are eaten at the same time, then the digestion in the stomach has to switch constantly between sour and alkaline area, and the stomach never can concentrate on the digestion of of food itself. Instead of eating carbohydrates with the meat vegetables are suggested (4 Strategien, p.390). [But little quantities of bread or potatoes are no problem with meat].

The words of Dr. D'Adamo:

"It can be that the most important thing with food for you is the combination in the meal, for example to evade the combination of animal protein (e.g. meat) with big quantities of carbohydrates like bread or potatoes. That's important because animal products provoke in the stomach an acid environment. But carbohydrates are digested in the stomach in a strongly basic (alkaline) environment. When these kinds of food are combined [in big quantities] then the body is processing proteins and carbohydrates in a constant change - and this does not to seem a good method. Separating the kinds of food the stomach can concentrate himself on processing. One can take [with the meat] food low-carb but fiber-rich vegetables, for example leafy vegetables. Tofu and vegetable proteins are essentially predigested, so they can be combined with meat products." (4 Strategien, p.390)

(orig. German:
"Möglicherweise ist das einzig Wichtige, worauf Sie bei der Verbindung von Nahrungsmitteln achten müssen, die Kombination von tierischem Eiweiss, z.B. Fleisch, mit grossen Mengen an Kohlenhydraten wie Brot und Kartoffeln zu vermeiden. Das ist deshalb wichtig, weil tierische Produkte im Magen in stark saurem Milieu, Kohlenhydrate im Darm dagegen in stark basischem Milieu verdaut werden. Kombiniert man diese Nahrungsmittel, 'knabbert' der Körper abwechselnd am Eiweiss, dann wieder an den Kohlenhydraten - wohl kaum eine sehr wirksame Methode. Trennt man diese Nahrungsmittelgruppen, kann sich der Magen voll und ganz auf die vorliegende Arbeit konzentrieren. Nehmen Sie statt dessen kohlenhydratarme, ballaststoffreiche Gemüsebeilagen zu sich, beispielsweise Blattgemüse. Dass man eiweissreiche und kohlehydratreiche Lebensmittel nicht verbinden soll, gilt nicht für Tofu und andere pflanzliche Proteine, die im wesentlichen vorverdaut sind." (4 Strategien, S.390)

Blood group nutrition eliminates overweight

With blood group nutrition the enzymes and the organism are in complete harmony and no damaging food is hindering the processings. This provokes that any gain of weight is stopped. But another fact will come: Cell metabolism is working that optimal so the superfluous pounds are going (4 Strategien, p.391).

D'Adamo:

"When you are following the diet, your metabolism is changing to it's normal level, so the taken calories are burnt and processed more efficiently; digestion system is processing the nutrients in a right way and is reducing water accumulations in the body. In this way weight reduction is coming immediately." (4 Strategien, p.391)

(orig. German:
"Wenn Sie sich an Ihre Diät halten, stellt sich Ihr Stoffwechsel auf das normale Niveau um, so dass Sie die aufgenommenen Kalorien wirksamer verbrennen; das Verdauungssystem verarbeitet dann die Nährstoffe richtig und reduziert die Wasseransammlung im Körper. Auf diese Weise nimmt man sofort ab." (4 Strategien, S.391)

In the beginning of it's change of alimentation can even be too much weight reduction. Then one has to find out the new ideal balance with it's food (4 Strategien, p.392).


Additional products in addition to blood group nutrition
Basically there no additional products are needed, but some are very useful:
-- for pregnant women: iron, calcium, and folic acid
-- women in general need much calcium, above all when their nutrition does only contain few milk products
-- persons with a heavy bodily work or are under special stress, pensioners, ill persons or strong smokers need individual compounds (4 Strategien, p.396).


The quantity of a meal

Culture to eat much in the industrial countries provokes the consequence that the population is more and more fat. Stomach is expanding. Cells of stomach walls "are under a heavy charge". After eating one should not feel lazy, then one did not eat too much (4 Strategien, p.392).

D'Adamo:

"When you always eat so much so you feel absolutely saturated and after the meal you feel lazy, then you should try to eat less. You have to learn to listen to your body." (4 Strategien, p.392).

(orig. German:
"Wenn Sie immer so viel essen, dass Sie sich völlig gesättigt und nach dem Essen träge fühlen, sollten Sie versuchen, weniger zu essen. Lernen Sie, auf Ihren Körper zu hören." (4 Strategien, S.392)

Food advice

Meat should be always meager and biological meat
-- without antibiotics, because there never was any antibiotic before
-- without feeding of corn, because corn did not exist in former times
-- but with feeding of grass and alfalfa grasses because in this way the animals were fed also in former times (4 Strategien, p. 393).

Fat from fish with omega 3 fatty acids
Fat from fishes "contains much omega 3 fatty acid which demonstrably are lowering the level of cholesterol and which are demonstrably reinforcing the heart." (4 Strategien, p.393)

(orig. German:
Fett von Fischen "enthält viele Omega-3-Fettsäuren, die nachweislich den Cholesterinwert senken und das Herz stärken." (4 Strategien, S.393)

Canned food is without any vitamin which is sensitive to heat
Canned food is produced under heat and pressure:
-- all vitamins sensitive to heat are destroyed with it
-- only vitamins not sensitive to heat are preserved (4 Strategien, p.394)
-- enzymes are partly destroyed by the heat
-- generally canned food has got a low level of fibers
-- and generally canned food has got a higher level of salt balancing the loss of taste during the heat and pressure processing (4 Strategien, p.395).

Considering the same quantity of vitamins and enzymes and fibers, all in all canned food costs much more than fresh fruits and fresh vegetables (4 Strategien, p.395).

Frozen products
Freezing "hardly changes the content of nutrients of food." (4 Strategien, p.395)

(orig. German:
Einfrieren "ändert den Nährstoffgehalt des Lebensmittels kaum." (4 Strategien, S.395)

Cooking in the Asian wok pan

-- this deep wok pan has got only a little bottom with the maximum of heat, and there is a broad margin where heat is less
-- with this wok pan roasting of food is well possible without damaging the food in the fat on the ground
-- first the poors of the food are closed so the flavoring is preserved, and by working with the spoon the lower food is put up where it is cooked with less high temperatures
-- in this wok pan cooking is processed with sesame or peanut oil which are more heat-resistant than safflower or rapeseed oils
-- first the food should be cooked on the ground which needs a longer time, and then the middle of the pan is set free and other food is given into the pan which needs less time for cooking, so at the end all food is cooked at the same time in one pan (4 Strategien, p.395).

Grain

Amaranth: is a grain from Mexico (4 Strategien, p.398).

Spelt: Spelt is "a kind of wheat which obviously does not provoke any problem, to the contrary normal wheat wholemeal bread provokes many problems." (4 Strategien, p.398)

(orig. German:
Dinkel ist "ein Weizenabkömmling, der offenbar keine Probleme verursacht, die sich beim Verzehr von Weizenvollkornbrot ergeben." (4 Strategien, S.398)

[But pay attention: A bread called "spelt bread" often also contains normal wheat. When one wants to evade the damaging wheat in any case so one has to make one's personal bread at home, for example with spelt flour, soya flour, and amaranth flour etc. Stupid industry mostly is not capable until today to produce this because they want ill people and not healthy people...]

Essen bread / bread of germinated wheat grain ("germinated wheat")
Breads of germed wheat grain don't contain gluten lectins any more because they were eliminated by the germination process. Breads are "living" food "with many positive beneficial and effective enzymes", and "normally they can be found in the well tempered shelves of health stores." (4 Strategien, p.398)

(orig. German:
Die Brote sind ein "lebendiges" Lebensmittel "mit vielen bekömmlichen, wirksamen Enzymen" und "finden sich normalerweise in den Kühlregalen von Naturkostläden und Reformhäusern" wieder (4 Strategien, S.398).

"Germed bread has a some sweetish taste because by the germination process also sugar is liberated. Therefore this bread is humid and soft. Toasted it has an excellent taste." (4 Strategien, p.399)

(orig. German:
"Keimlingsbrot schmeckt ein wenig süsslich, da durch den Keimungsprozess auch Zucker freigesetzt wird. Deshalb ist es feucht und weich. Getostet schmeckt es herrlich." (4 Strategien, S.399).

"Evade industrially fabricated germinated breads because normally only a little part is of flour with germinated wheat, but the big part of these industrial breads are of normal whole grain wheat." (4 Strategies, p.398-399)

(orig. German:
"Meiden Sie industriell hergestellte Keimlingsbrote, da sie normalerweise einen geringen Gehalt an Auswuchsweizen und eine überwiegende Menge aus Vollkornweizen in der Rezeptur enthalten." (4 Strategien, S.398-399)

Oils and oils

-- according to Dr. D'Adamo coconut and other tropical oils should be omitted because of their saturated fatty acids, because these can damage cardiovascular system (4 Strategien, p.397)

-- much oil consumption of oils with polyunsaturated fatty acids can support certain forms of cancer, "above all when these fats are strongly heated during the cooking process" (4 Strategien, p.397)

[Therefore there is the advice to add the oil of a sauce only at the end of the cooking process when the food has been taken from the stove but is yet in the pot mixing all in the pot].

-- olive oil is the best beneficial oil at all with simple unsaturated fat acids with a positive effect on heart and arteries (4 Strategien, p.397).

^