I've been talking about major health
fads are they good are they bad today we
are talking about eat right for your
blood type hi I'm Robin Openshaw known
online as the green smoothie girl and
today I want to talk about the work of
the do demos who put forth a plan of
eating
that's called eat right for your blood
type and I get asked about this fairly
often it's not really trending anymore
but there are still people who buy into
it and I just want to point out
something about this diet I should like
to point out a few things one of my
favorite authors in nutrition who I
think really walks his talk is dr. joel
Fuhrman and he does a really good job of
pulling apart what's exactly wrong with
eat right for your blood type here's
what it boils down to I'm gonna give you
the Cliff's Notes one of the problems
with it is that there's no research on
it there's actually no evidence that you
should eat right or that you should eat
a specific diet based on what your blood
type is and so to me that's problematic
to tell groups of people to eat pretty
distinctly different diets based on the
fact that you have a positive blood or
you have a positive blood here's where
it really falls apart though and I like
some of the scientific discussions of
this is that every single nationality
the whole the whole underpinning of the
theory is if you go back a positive
folks came from you know European skin
and even countries where they ate grains
and so they're adopted to a more
plant-based diet and so the problem is
when you look at that as the fundamental
premise of it it sounds interesting it
sounds unique it sounds like it could
have some validity but every single one
of those cultures has all the blood
types you know when people say that they
you know swear by the eat right for your
blood type diet I say yes but is that
because you're eating right for your
blood type or is that because all of the
pipes banned processed food and once
again I've been talking about these
nutrition myths one of the ways that I
do line up with most of the diets is
they're all gonna tell you to not eat
sugar and not eat white flour and not
drink sodas that are full of chemicals
and to get off of processed foods so you
come from any version of standard
American diet to eat right for your
blood type of course you're gonna feel
better even if you're following the
wrong planner there is the this doesn't
make any sense that there's these
several plans that you're supposed to
eat like specific things and do specific
types of exercise based on your blood
type
you're still gonna feel better if you
ditch the soda the coffee the sugar the
white flour and so Bailey's do have that
responsible aspect get more greens in
your diet
once those go up other things tend to
fall out without you counting calories
without you worrying about things like
proteins fats and carbs and
macronutrient ratios so I hope this is
helpful for you I hope that you are
smart about going on a diet
instead just eat a lot more Whole Foods
and drink your quart of green smoothie
before you eat anything else and you'll
find that you eat a lot less anyway make
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