Are You My Type?

Who would have thought crafting a diet would be based on blood type? 

Oh well, at least this fella name Peter D'Adamo is one. 

He even wrote a book about it.  In his book "Eat Right 4 Your Type", he claims that ABO blood type is the most important factor in determining a healthy diet and he promotes distinct diets for people with the 4 different blood types and each type having unique dietary recommendations:

Blood group O - the hunter

The earliest human blood group, the diet recommends that this blood group can eat a higher protein-rich diet.  D'Adamo bases this on the belief that O blood type was the first blood type, originating 30,000 years ago.

Blood group A - the cultivator

Believes to be a more recently evolved blood type, dating back from the dawn of agriculture, 20,000 years ago. The diet recommends that individuals of blood group A eat a diet emphasizing vegetables and free of red meat, a more vegetarian approach.

Blood group B - the nomad

Associated with a strong immune system and a flexible digestive system. The blood type diet claims that people of blood type B are the only ones who can thrive on dairy products and estimates blood type B arrived 10,000 years ago. 

Blood group AB - the enigma

The most recently evolved type, arriving less than 1,000 years ago. In terms of dietary needs, this blood type diet treats this group as an intermediate between blood types A and B.  That sounds a bit over-simple to me doesn't it?  This group should be as ambiguous as the group name suggests. 

I always believe Blood group B are mosquitoes magnets.  "You are what you eat", it just proved the point that these annoying little insect can really tell the bland vegetarians from the interesting Nomads!