On 17/8/2003, Chris Forbes-Ewan posted:
I
am 'flat out like a lizard drinking' and have to log off Science
Matters for a couple of weeks. But before I do, I suggest that anyone
interested in popular diets would be well-advised to read the FAQs
written by the Nutritionists Network ('Nut-Net') on this topic.
The index for
the FAQs is available through the Nutrition Australia website:
http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/Food_Facts/FAQ/faq_index.asp
The 'Eat Right
for Your Type' diet is addressed under the heading 'Other Diets';
direct URL:
http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/Food_Facts/FAQ/popular_diets_p3_other_diets.asp
For those who
want to 'cut to the chase', the final sentence of the FAQ reads:
"In summary, the
Eat Right For Your Type diet has no basis in science, and no aspect of
this diet can be recommended."
Paul
Williams responded:
Found
"The Liver Cleansing Diet" here as well and have forwarded on the the
above URL to a friend who has a current passion for this diet book.
Summing
up:
"Despite
containing some good points, there is too much inappropriate advice in
the Liver Cleansing Diet--and too little regard for the value of
physical activity--to recommend its adoption for either the short or
long term."
Peter Macinnis quipped:
>"In
summary, the Eat Right For Your Type diet has no basis in science, and
>no aspect of this diet can be recommended."
No, but my
patented eye colour diet works a treat. People with green eyes
can choose from peas, beans and other veges or well-hung meat, people
with brown eyes eat chocolate, people with bloodshot eyes may eat ripe
tomatoes and raw meat, and so on . . .
Jim
Thornton added:
And
people with blue eyes must eat blueberries and fresh air with the Sun
in the right direction for it to work ;-)
Gary-Peter Dalrymple commented:
Eat right
for your blood group?
Put me down as a
Skeptic on this!
(and I'll be in
Canberra for the National convention this weekend)
It sounds a bit
too much like a peculiar Japanese practice, where having the 'wrong'
blood group infers that you have personality faults that would make you
an undesirable marriage partner.
I presume that
this has it's origin's in Japan's home grown racialism, the need to
prevent intermarriage with citizens tainted by the suspicion of Ainu
Burakumon, Korean or Taiwanese descent.
Rob
Geraghty responded:
I
hadn't heard of the blood type issue in Japan that way. I only
heard of it as a "personality type" connection; ie. if you have
blood group "O" you have a certain personality. I don't know that
it necessarily has a negative connotation. I also dno't think
that young Japanese people take it very seriously.
>
I presume that this has its origin's in Japan's
> home grown racialism, the need to prevent
> intermarriage with citizens tainted by the
> suspicion of Ainu Burakumon, Korean or
> Taiwanese descent.
Maybe.
But in lots of families, marriage between a Japanese person and a
non-Japanese person of any descent is frowned on. Not simply the
ones mentioned above. On the other hand, such marriages do happen
anyway.
Considering
that the Japanese are descended from mainland Chinese, and that the
Ainu are the aborigines, clinging to racial "purity" seems bizarre.
The
"in" diets when I was in Japan last year were based on what was
described as a "diabetic diet"; related to eating foods with a low
glycaemic index.
Tamara Kelly
wrote:
Personalities
according to blood type - mmm... take your pick - they say opposing
things.
http://allsands.com/Health/bloodpersonali_bhy_gn.htm
http://website.lineone.net/~bloodprofiling/perscomp.htm
David
Maddern responded:
How
they can assign wide variation in behaviour to ABO blood is beyond me
For instance nearly half of the Australian population are group 0 and
nearly half are A is there a clear delineation in these characteristics?
And
taking Australian Aborigines without Caucasian parentage there is
no group B at all so all are phenotypically A or 0
So
are all of them one personality either one personality type or the
other?
Give
us a break, that is beyond credibility by light years
