Joel Fuhrman - Eat To Live

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fat diet that is high in refined sugars and refined carbohydrates and

low in fiber is not a healthy diet. To lump refined and unrefined car-

bohydrates together is inaccurate and misleading.

Center your diet on "whole," unrefined, unprocessed carbohy-

drates — fruits, vegetables, and legumes — and you will be doing

your heart and your health a "whole" lot of good!

A Different Diet for Each Blood Type?

Another bestseller. Eat Right for Your Type, by Peter D'Adamo, teaches

us that the four different blood types require four very different eat-

ing plans. He explains:

1. Type O blood people (the Hunters) are designed for a lot of
   meat and will hurt themselves with wheat and beans. He as-
   serts that "the gluten lectins inhibit your insulin metabolism,
   interfering with the efficient use of calories for energy.... Cer-
   tain beans and legumes, especially lentils and kidney beans,
   contain lectins that deposit in your muscle tissues, making
   them more alkaline and less 'charged' for physical activity. Type
   O's have a tendency to low thyroid function."


2. People with type A blood (the Cultivators) should eat a veg-
   etarian diet, as they are biologically predisposed to heart dis-
   ease, cancer, and diabetes. D'Adamo interestingly lists vegetable
   oil as a food that encourages weight loss for this blood type.


3. Type B blood people (the Nomads) do well with a varied diet
   and extra dairy products. They are resistant to heart disease
   and cancer, but more prone to immune system disorders like
   multiple sclerosis and lupus. Meat and liver encourage weight
   loss in type B blood individuals, according to D'Adamo, and he
   recommends that Caucasians and African individuals with
   blood type B consume six to ten ounces of cheese weekly.


4. People with type AB blood require a mixed diet, some meat,
   but not chicken. D'Adamo writes: "So, although you are ge-
   netically programmed for the consumption of meats, you lack
   enough stomach acid to metabolize them efficiently, and the
   meat you eat lends to get stored as fat."

I tried hard to be fair to D'Adamo because I know there is some

evidence in the scientific literature that genetics and even blood type