Merry_Widow
Fanatic Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/3/2004 at 01:12 AM |
So I have an extremely flatulent room mate who is a strict vegan. Her
cooking smells... well, it smells pretty damned awful, and seems massively
unbalanced. I recently found out from one of my suitemates that she is on
the "blood-type" diet, and swears by it. Now I will be the first to admit I
really don't know much about this diet. What I have heard seems ridiculous
and dangerous. It seems even more dangerous when you take into account that
only a few weeks ago, this room mates hemoglobin count was at 7. A low
count is considered to be around 75.
Then again, I really don't know much about this diet, and I was wondering
if anyone knew something more than just the vague idea's of the lectin
monsters. Has anyone had any positive experiences? Negative ones? This
entire theory boggles my mind. ____________________ Okay, dazzle me. |
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/3/2004 at 04:22 AM |
Blood-type diets? Now that's one I haven't heard of.
I wonder, what kind of vegan is she if yoo say her food seems unbalanced.
Is she on the straightedge hardcore diet? No animal products, mostly just
fritos? Does she order pizzas without cheese to non-exsistant addresses so
she can dumpster-dive them when the drivers get back?
That would certainly explain the smell. ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/3/2004 at 07:42 AM |
I don't know much about it, but it may have been that book my mom was
reading on a few years ago. If anyone knows more about it, correct me if
I'm wrong, but it sounds like the diet where certain blood types eat more
of certain kinds of foods. This is what I remember:
Blood Type O - Supposedly the first blood type that came about. These
people eat mostly meat.
Blood Type A - A tad more rice and grains than the O'ers (boy does that
sound wrong).
Blood Type B - Supposedly eat a lot less meat than the other blood
types.
Blood Type AB - Do not remember my mom commenting on it.
I could be wrong, but it sounds like something my mom was reading about a
few years ago. Maybe the author made a different book...all the people
studying this stuff is coming out with new things. It used to be that fat
was the enemy - go vegetarian! Now it's carbs being the enemy - go
Atkin's! Eh. Not that there isn't any truth to the mentioned diets
(personal experience on at least one of them), just amazes me how the
"enemy in the foods group" changes from time to time.
It is likely she needs to have a special diet though for her health
problems. I know a lot of hypoglycemic people who have to eat A LOT of
protein in their diet since sugar affects their insulin greatly.
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 26/3/2004 at 09:15 AM |
No, she's not hypoglycemic or anything. Just severely anemic, which, when
looking at what she eats, isn't surprising. She recently started having to
take an insane amount of supplements. It seems to me that if the blood type
diet she put herself on was taht great, she wouldn't have to. Mind you, I'm
not saying taking supplements is a bad thing, but she is taking more than I
have ever seen anybody take. And I've seen people take quite a few.
Something just doesn't seem right.
ANd don't get me started on the Atkins diet. That one puts people into
comas.
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/3/2004 at 05:09 PM |
It can if someone is on it for too long. When I was on it, I always took
breaks every now and then and made sure to drink A LOT of water for my
kidneys. I understand people's concerns about it though. South Beach
Diet is much more liberal when it comes to the diets (and easier and more
nutritional). Both are basically on the same track.
Didn't assume she was hypoglycemic, just an example of people who need to
make special diet changes. Veganism would be
practically a 180 degree shift on the diet changes that hypoglycemics have
to make. Sure it isn't impossible though since vegetarians in general
found ways to get the protein they need.
[Edited on 3/27/2004 by Anya] |
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