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General Guidelines for Blood Type A
Blood Type A individuals are agrarians and vegetarians
You need to emphasize vegetables and vegetable oils such as Flora or Barlean brand and extra virgin olive oil, deep ocean seafood, legumes (beans and peas), grains, and fruits (especially pineapple).
You should avoid most meats and dairy products as well as kidney and lima beans. Also avoid wheat.
You need to emphasize relaxing, calming exercises and activities such as Tai Chi, Yoga, and Meditation.
The more faithfully you try to regularly use your best foods and the more you avoid your no foods the more rapidly you will see improvements in your health.
For your convenience, all of your best foods and all of your no foods are listed below. If you do not find a food listed, it is OK to use. Just use it in moderation.
Best Foods For Blood Type A
For a more condensed, easier to print, shopping list of foods that are ok for your blood type,
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From organically raised, free-range, cage-free animals or wild game.
Fish/Seafood: 4-6 ounces, 1-4 times/week Fats and Oils: 1 Tablespoon, 2-6 times/week (very active people may require larger amounts) Nuts and Seeds: Small handful 2-5 times/week, Nut and seed butter: 1 tablespoon 1-4 times/week Beans and Legumes: 1 Dry Cup, 3-6 times/week Cereals: 1 dry cup, 5-9 times/week Breads, muffins and Crackers: Breads: 1 slice 3-5 times/day, Muffins: 1-2/day Grains and Pasta: Grains: 1 dry cup, 2-4 times/week, Pasta: 1 dry cup 2-4 times/week Vegetables: Raw: 1 cup 2-5 times/day, Cooked: 1 cup 3-6 times/day Fruits: 1 fruit (3-5 ounces) 3-4 times/day Juices: 8 ounces 4-5 times/day Water: 8 ounces 1-3 times/day No Foods (avoid) For Blood Type A
- Red Meats: Mutton, Organ Meats, Pork or anything made with them.
- Wild Game: Buffalo, Duck, Goose, Partridge, Pheasant, Rabbit, Deer (Venison), Elk, Quail, etc.
- Fish/Seafood: Anchovy, Barracuda, Beluga, Bluefish, Bluegill Bass, Catfish, Caviar, Eel, Flounder, Gray Sole, Haddock, Hake, Halibut, Herring (Fresh or Pickled), Lox (Smoked/Cured Salmon), Shad, Sole, Striped Bass, Tilefish, Octopus and Squid (Calamari.)
- Amphibians: Frog, Turtle
- Crustaceans: Clam, Conch, Crab, Crayfish, lobster, Mussels, Oysters, Scallops and Shrimp.
- Cheese: American, Blue, Brie, Camembert, Cheddar, Colby, Cottage, Cream, Edam, Emmenthal, Gouda, Gruyere, Jarlsberg, Monterey Jack, Munster,
Parmesan, Provolone, Neufchatel and Swiss.
- Other Milk and Milk Products: Butter, Buttermilk, Casein, Ice Cream, Sherbet, Skim or 2%, Whey and Whole Milk.
Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Peanut Oil, Safflower Oil and Sesame Oil.
Brazil, Cashew and Pistachios.
Copper, Garbanzo, Kidney, Lima, Navy, Red and Tamarind Beans.
Breads, Cereals, Muffins and Pasta: Supplement Suggestions
Below are vitamins and minerals that are especially important for your blood type and foods high in each nutrient.
B Complex: (especially Folic Acid, B12 and Intrinsic Factor)
Whole Grains (Niacin), Eggs and Fish.
Vitamin C:
Berries, Cherries, Grapefruit, Lemon, Pineapple and Broccoli.
Vitamin E:
Vegetable Oil, Whole Grains, Peanuts and Green Leafy Vegetables.
Quercetin:
Vegetables, especially yellow onions.
Calcium: (300-600 mg elemental)
Unboned Sardines, Canned Salmon, Spinach, Eggs, Goat Milk and Yogurt.
Iron:
Beans, Blackstrap Molasses, Figs and Whole Grains.
Selenium and Chromium:
With caution.
Zinc:
Eggs and Legumes.
Avoid Vitamin A (Beta Carotene) as a supplement:
Ok in foods like: Broccoli, Carrots, Eggs, Spinach and Yellow Squash.
Note that elderly may require 10,000 iu/day.
Enzyme Replacement Therapy
The following abbreviations stand for enzyme formulas that are used in my practice. You may obtain the name of a local practitioner, trained in using these products, from Enzyme Formulations, Inc.: 1-800-614-4400
- 2-4 STM prior to meals
- 2 SPL after meals
- 2 VSCLR before bed, upon arising, and/or between meals
Other enzyme formulas of particular benefit include: ADR, CLM, CRC, DGST, HCL, LVR, NSL, OPT, PAN, SMI, and SVG.
Formulas of potential benefit are: MSCLR and TRMA.
Exercise Suggestions for Blood Type A
- Never exercise to the point of fatigue. Slow and steady progress is always best. Monitoring your heart rate is a great way to determine if you are exercising hard enough and long enough.
- Find your Resting Heart Rate (RHR) by taking your pulse at either your wrist or at the carotid artery on your neck.
Your strongest pulse, on the palm side of your wrist, is on the thumb side, 1-2" below your hand toward your elbow. Your carotid pulse is easy to find while exercising because it really pounds. This pulse can be located about one inch on either side of the middle of the front of your neck, approximately one inch up from your Adam's apple, below your jaw.
The best time to take your RHR is first thing in the morning before getting out of bed (before you sit up or stand up). To calculate your beats per minute, take your pulse for 6 seconds and put a zero at the end of the number of beats that you counted. To be more accurate, you could count the beats for 10 seconds and multiply by 6 or count the beats for 15 seconds and multiply by 4. Keep a record of your first morning RHR for one week. Add the numbers together and divide by 7. Use this number for your AVERAGE RHR. If your first morning RHR is ever 10 beats or more per minute above or below your average RHR, do not do anything strenuous that day or until your first morning RHR is again within 10 beats of your average RHR.
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- Choose one or more of the exercises listed on the
Optimum Training Rate page for OTR activity(s) for blood type A.
Warm Up page for warm up suggestions) to bring your heart rate up to your OTR - 30 BPM (In the above example, that would be 125 - 30 = 95.)
- Practice proper breathing techniques (See the Proper Breathing section below.)
- For the next 5 - 10 minutes, begin your OTR activity very slowly while breathing very deeply through your nose. Keep your heart rate at 30 BPM below your OTR.
- For the next 10 - 20 minutes, continue your OTR activity, but keep your heart rate at or below your OTR while continuing to breathe through your nose only.
- Cool down slowly, using the same or one of the other
Warm Up activities the for at least 5 - 10 minutes, to return your heart rate to its warm up level (e.g. 100), before stopping.
- Exercise for at least 30 minutes, at least 3 times every week. Try to find more than one
OTR Activity that you really like so you can vary your workouts to minimize boredom. Exercise is cumulative. Five to ten minutes of walking after each meal is 15 to 30 minutes of exercise for that day.
Proper Breathing
When you are born, you naturally breathe through your nose and only your nose. You must learn to breathe through your mouth, generally as the result of some stressful situation that obstructs breathing through your nose. Most adults breathe very shallowly using just their chest muscles. This
only fills the middle and upper parts of their lungs. Nose breathing, using your abdominal muscles, is more efficient because it fills more of your lungs and provides more air and, subsequently, more oxygen with each breath.
To relearn proper nose breathing, try the following:
- Inhale normally through your nose.
- As you breathe out through your nose, slightly tighten your throat as if you are lightly snoring.
- Notice that you must contract your abdominal muscles to make the “snoring” sound during your exhale. The tighter you contract your stomach muscles with each exhale, the more resonant the snoring sound. As long as you can make that sound, proper breathing will occur.
- Once you can make this sound with a shallow breath, increase the depth of each breath while making a quality, resonant snoring sound with each
exhale. You can also do this on each inhale.
- Practice every chance you get while lying down, sitting, or walking. When it becomes very easy, use this type of breathing, especially during each exhale, during your regular exercise time.
Meditation
For a meditation called Mindful Awareness,
click here
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