What can we do to be(come) healthier?
I am often asked what I think about the blood type diet.
No comment.
I don't go by what others interpret, but prefer to interpret the voice from my own body. Nature doesn't lie to us, but we try to lie to nature. Whatever you crave, you crave for a reason. A pregnant woman is known for craving all sorts of "weird things", because... she needs it. Or rather: The fetus does.
We can buy a million books and it won't be as accurate as our instincts. The only problem with cravings is that we also wind up craving unnatural things imitating the natural foods we need. So, if you crave paprika chips for example, it isn't the actual chips you crave as they are nothing but potatoes ingredient wise. Natural ingredient wise that is. What you crave is the food the artificial flavor imitates, which is paprika.
This is why the two rules for me are as follows:
1) Eat natural, as natural as you can.
2) Eat fresh.
When looking at what rh negative people in this world may need more than others, I look at where we might be lacking and when I see lots of us with iron-deficiency and low vitamin B12 levels, I connect the dots already dotted and realize that common ancestry has something to do with our common deficiencies and likely cravings.
Seafood is usually high in iron and there are many indicators, that our mutation first came up and/or survived and spread around sea level close to the ocean. There were no need for iron supplements. We had plenty of what we needed.
Other foods include:
Seafood also tops the list when looking for foods high in B12.
Sardines and mackerel are not always on the lists, but need to be highlighted.
It isn't always easy to talk about what we are deprived of having as easy access to as our ancestors did in order to stay healthy, but it is important to know these things as we can pull from that knowledge when it comes to making educated decisions in the future.
On a side-note:
We consume far too many carbs. High-carbs-diets were created for people who burn many calories due to heavy labor and because of poverty. We especially consume far too many man-made high-carbs products such as bread and pasta. If your body craves a high-carbs product, it is often because of the added spices and additives tricking your body into believing that you crave something when you don't. Many people gain weight, yet their bodies are starving for the right vitamins, minerals, protein and fats while consuming far too many carbs. Some diabetics have stated that only eating meats and vegetables has made a huge difference in their conditions. This is included in letting your body tell you what to consume and not allowing spices and artificial flavors to dictate what we want to put in our mouths.
There is a reason life expectancy is higher in Costa Rica than in the U.S. and if you look up nutritional value of pinto beans, you may want to consider that replacing a bread and pasta diet with their common "gallo pinto" one, your body will get more of what it needs and less of what it doesn't.
This is not about losing weight and looking better though that will likely follow, but being healthy. Being healthy is what is most important. Everything else shall fall into place.
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Depends on where you live. In America, Europe etc., the "advanced" places, our bodies are definitely confused. The best we can do is eat as natural as possible. Seafood in general seems to have what we need more so than most other foods other than maybe wild game. Farm animals are the degenerate descendants of wild game lacking serious nutritional value our ancestors were provided with. Fish has always been fish, so aside from the pollution and poisoning aspect, eating fish is similar to eating as our healthy ancestors did. Our bodies are over-filled with what we don't need, but actually starving for certain elements no longer present in today's diet. That is why the business of vitamins and supplements is skyrocketing. This is evidence that most foods today are not really food, but rather filler. All man-made food products like bread and pasta should disappear from our diets. A big plate of rice and beans daily and nothing else is probably still better for us than what most people consume. Rice and beans combined with some fish, veggies or what have you is probably a decent diet. Maybe some turkey as it is close to the wild turkey and therefore contains many nutrients chicken doesn't. Tuning our of commercials and diet-plans is probably a good way to be. Look at life expectancy in some countries in Central and South America being decent despite a lack of medical technology. There is a reason for it. And the diet has probably a lot to do with it. Costa Rica may be considered a developing country, but people live longer there than in the United States.
INUED: Originally, we ate WHERE we lived, and WHAT we could gather. THEN, we figured out we could eat dead if cooked, then we could kill-cook-eat. THEN we really messed up our diets by introducing agriculture which messed up our guts because we didn't necessarily have little guys to help us digest thing from other places, and NOW we have food from all over laced with who knows what and our guts are going nuts!
Considering "advances" in technology, especially in chemicals used in agriculture and etc, we have to consider that our "instincts" may not be trustworthy 100% anymore as there are chemicals to trick us into believing many different things--like we're not full when we actually are, and etc.--and we may not necessarily be able to eat an optimal diet because of how we acquire our food. CONT--
I do agree that body chemistry depends on a lot more factors than blood type. I am A and not supposed to crave meats, yet I do. Os are supposed to crave meat, but I know many who don't. When it comes down to it, our instinct may be the only reliable constant as long as (as I said) we eat fresh and natural so that artificial flavors won't get a chance to trick our bodies into craving the wrong thing.
Just found out seaweed contains a wide range of vitamins and minerals, including iodine, iron, and calcium. Some types can even contain high amounts of vitamin B12. So I definitely agree there and also wonder whether or not a few thousand years ago, consuming seaweed was quite common. It would definitely be an extra source for vegetarians and vegans getting their levels regulated without having to consume fish or shellfish products.
Blood type diet is poorly presented, especially the science part. Agree though, instincts most accurate, my son and I perfect example(Both A-): He doesn't like or eat bananas, I like them and eat them, we did testing he was found not to be able to eat almost all bananas except 1 kind and I could eat all kinds. (His mom was 0+ and had trouble carrying him, causing him to be born a month premature) Body chemistry can be different, even in same blood type, same genetic people.
An interesting article I believe a big source of iron and iodine came from a seafood and seaweed diet. In the 21st Century we must all adapt to greater interference with our foods whether its GM or emergent technologies like 5G that quickly depletes the minerals in our bodys. Nascent Iodine is a must and eating more greens will help to flush heavy metals and nanos from our bodies and the Shitake mushrooms will help to keep many cancers in check.