Beowulf wrote:
The Blood Type diet has been around for a long time. Its based on your genetic makeup, not superstition. How about this. You tell me your blood type, and I'll post somethings about it, and you tell me if they are true for you.
Ok, so I was really skeptical about the blood type diet thing, so I sent an e-mail to my aunt who's a dietitian/nutrition specialist and all around health nut [and the person that helped me come up with my personal plan].
Apparently, this is a pretty widely accepted practice that many people follow. However, she remains slightly skeptical because of lack of clinical trials and not much evidence to back it up. There is also some assertions that the clinical trials were botched because the people that ran the trials just basically called up people and asked how they were doing, rather than running scientific tests to get results.
But the fact of the matter is that it seems to work in theory, and that many times it seems to help in cases where real plans don't work.
EXERCISE. This is SO important. It also can help with depression, tiredness, mood, and creativity for that matter. I come up with some of my best ideas when I'm hiking or running. Get the blood flowing, get the endorphins up, and soon you'll be craving it every day.
Agreed.

what I suggest to everyone in general for maintaining good health is getting regular exercise and taking everything in moderation. Blanket statements like those listed above are one of my pet peeves.
But that in and of itself is a blanket statement.
However, I do have an issue with this "moderation" business. True, everything needs to be in moderation, but saying "moderation" is just too easy.
You can moderately eat at McDonalds [or just plain fried/unhealthy foods] everyday, but your health is going to be a heck of a lot worse than eating moderately following Beo's guidelines. Dieting isn't all about weight loss, it's also about health. So even with moderate eating, you can get clogged arteries, diabetes and other stuff that could be easily avoided.
My family has a long line of diabetes [which is why I originally started my own plan], and my grandfather moderately drank sodas and ate other unhealthy things [he was and is still a very thin looking man] and even excersized every day, but he still got it when he could have easily avoided it.
But then again, the thing is I agree with you Willian. Blanket statements like Beo's rules and my own guidelines don't work for everyone. Every human has a different body and different systems. My dad can quit drinking coke for a week and lose 15 pounds, while I would only lose maybe 3. [True story]
I think the original purpose of the thread was to share health ideas for people that are having difficulty getting healthy in dietary terms, and see if maybe something like Beo's guidelines [or mine, or Willians, or Zephyrstar's or even Meleechampion's] would help in that regard.
[I like this discussion. It's very civil and nice. Now anyway.

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