Blood Type Diet: Fact or Fiction?

You’ve likely heard of the book entitled “Eat Right for Your Type”; it sold about 7 million copies and was translated into 52 languages. I bought it when it was released in 2002, did you? 

The author made a compelling argument that “sounded” so simple – simply discover your blood type and eat the diet best suited for that type and enjoy good health. The theory was that people with different blood types process food differently from one another and all we needed to do was follow a specific diet, supposedly correlated to our blood type, and decrease our risk of chronic disease, including heart disease.

I had plenty of patients who “gave it a try” with highly mixed results. I believe that those who follow the blood type diet, believing it to be factual, could actually be perpetuating or even creating ill health by consuming foods they shouldn’t such as gluten, dairy or animal flesh, and it is for that reason I am writing this blog...