Fri, May-21-10, 16:46
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Experimenter
Posts: 25,866
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Plan: DDF
Stats: 202/185.4/179
BF:
Progress: 72%
Location: San Diego, CA
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Blood Type and Diet
From Cordain's newsletter:
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Dr. Cordain has completed his critique of the Blood Type Diet. This article will be published in next week's edition of The Paleo Diet Update. Dr. Cordain states, "The concept of four specific types of diet for the four ABO blood groups (A, B, O & AB) is not supported by the available data. However, having said that, susceptibility to disease, and the robustness of the immune response to pathogens throughout the entire GI tract, is very much related to ABO blood groups. Our group has published at least one paper on the dietary lectin/disease concept and we believe that common dietary lectins may promote certain diseases (allergies and autoimmune diseases) while simultaneously promoting chronic low level inflammation. However, little evidence in either humans, animals or tissues point in the direction that dietary lectins elicit disease symptoms exclusively via interaction with ABO antigens. Additionally, of the hundreds of plant lectins that have been identified, only a very select few have been demonstrated to bind gut tissue. Hence, most dietary lectins are benign, simply because they cannot penetrate the gut barrier." Look for this article in next week's newsletter.
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I don't necessarily follow his diet, but he does have interesting stuff in his newsletters.
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