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Blood type diet and fatigue
My son suffers from feeling tired all the time. I have heard of a healthy diet that is based on a person’s blood group, which is said to help with fatigue. Can you help us track this down?
The diet you heard about was Peter D’Adamo’s best-selling Eat Right 4 Your Type, which has sold over 2 million copies and been translated into 50 different languages. The theory, much mocked by conventional circles, is that the four different human blood groups, (A, B, AB, and O), need different diets and that you should therefore individualise what you eat according to your blood type.
In essence, Dr D’Adamo, who is a nutritional specialist, not a medical doctor, believes that blood group A, for example, should avoid meat and take up yoga; that type Os should eat a high protein, low carbohydrate diet, that Bs are the only group to do well on dairy products and that ABs have all the benefits and intolerances of As and Bs.
I was highly sceptical when this book was published - but I have to admit, that as a blood group A, I do feel better when I stick to a vegetarian diet and I am a huge fan of yoga. If you want to learn more about this method of eating, you can check out the reviews for this controversial book at www.amazon.co.uk or even visit the author’s own website (www.dadamo.com) where, bizarrely, you can see a picture of him writing his famous tome in what looks like a prison cell on Martha’s Vineyard.
For fatigue, I would also investigate Kombucha tea. This is a living yeast culture that you ferment with sweetened tea to produce a health drink that is packed with vitamins, enzymes, minerals, and organic acids and said to be very effective for conditions such as ME and Chronic Fatigue.
The UK’s Kombucha Tea Network, which is based in Bath, can supply a starter culture which costs £18.50 and includes the yeast culture and an excellent book on Kombucha tea which is said to strengthen the whole body, detoxify the system, and help relieve immune-related conditions including arthritis, digestive disorders, psoriasis, and even cancer. The recommended daily dose, once you are up and running, is 150ml or a wineglassful, three times a day.
*The English version of Peter D’Adamo’s book is co-written with Catherine Whitney and called The Eat Right Diet. Published in paperback, it costs £6.99 from most good bookstores.