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I'm going to start a page on the letters we receive from individuals asking questions about the 'blood type diet' (also know as "Eat Right 4 Your Type") and our responses to the questions these folks ask, giving them honest and accurate answers to their questions.

On 10/15/08 7:45 AM, "xxxxx@gmail.com"

xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Maria  sent a message using the contact form at 
www owenfoundation contact.
 
 To whom it may concern,
 
 I read the information on your website regarding lectins and their possible interactions with the blood types. According to your information, certain lectins found in foods either interact with all blood types or none at all, thus giving you a good foundation for calling the blood type diet a scam. I would like you to explain to me about Dr. Dadamo's patients who improve so drastically on his proposed diet if this diet is a scam. May I point out that I happen to know some of these patients personally. I myself with just cutting out my wheat intake and without increasing in exercise or reducing food amounts lost about 5 kilograms in a couple of weeks. I had previously resulted negative for a celiac test,
 
 anxiously awaiting an answer,
Maria.

10/16/2008   11:30 am

Dear Maria,
                             
Yes it is very correct that dadamo is lying about lectin interactions with various ABO blood types, the blood types universally react in identical manner with all lectins, save for a couple of these lectins.  Your comments about success with the diet I have heard, and I too know people who were successful.  They are almost all type O people.

If you are knowledgeable about different diets published today, you will see that dadamo has made his O diet quite the same as the Atkin’s diet.  The Atkins diet does have the highest success with weight loss of any diet we have heard of or investigated.

There are vast numbers of type A blood type persons who gain weight and get very ill on the dadamo diet. They are now off his diet and switched to various other diets where they have improved health and successful weight loss.  Many switch to Atkins, others switch to the Paleo Diet, among these available diet choices.  These that I mention have a diet based on high protein, and low carbs. Starches, such as wheat (breads, pastas, cereals) and starchy vegetables (white potatoes, corn, etc) are totally avoided. Sound familiar to you?  While dadamo recommends white flour! for A type people, up to 30 servings per week in the form of breads, cereals, pastas, and up to 7 cups of dried beans a week (at over 400 calories per cup), I think you will see why his diet for A is so unsuccessful and so many quit using it. You cannot consider dadamo’s work a success when it is a complete failure for 45% of the population! (and yes, I know of a few type A individuals who CAN eat his diet and not get overweight or very ill, but it is VERY FEW).

And then there is the matter of lectins. IF he was correct, by eating or avoiding certain foods you are supposedly gaining health benefits and avoiding or canceling out disease. This is clearly not supported by scientific evidence.  Nor is is supported by those who eat the diet, such as A’s and B’s who have contacted us or been interviewed and show increase in weight gain, lethargy, rheumatoid diseases, arthritis, among the most significant ones.

In the end I would say that dadamo has ONE diet that works, and it works for any blood type. It is the O diet, and the O diet is a COPY of a pre-existing diet, the Atkin’s diet, a Low Carb diet. I myself tried the O diet with success. I lost weight, had more energy and got colds and other minor sickness much less frequently.  But I am a type A.

Dadamo’s diet recommendations are ludicrous, dishonestly based on false or invented scientific information, and he is potentially damaging the health and lives of up to 50% of the population that chooses to use his diets. Problems such as obesity and weight gain have a large part to play in disease and premature aging, and the A and B diets, the A diet especially, are most likely to cause weight gain and obesity. Please check on either Atkins forums or Paleo Diet forums, and if you ask questions about the ‘A’ blood type diet, or blood type diet, you will get plenty of independent verification of  what I am telling you here.

Best regards,
The Evil Twin
For owenfoundation com

 

Then there was this fellow, who must have obtained a temporary email address just to contact us, as the reply to him has not been able to be delivered, the account doesn't exist anymore.

On 10/15/08 10:51 AM, "xxxxx@lsouth.net"

xxxxxx@lsouth.net> wrote:

David  sent a message using the contact form at 
www owenfoundation contact.

What is foundation and whonds?
Thanks,  David

11/2/2008   4:00 pm

Dear David,

The foundation is my personal trust that I set up for charitable purposes. I support many local charity, and educational organizations, as well as some worldwide ones.

I don't understand what you are asking when you say "whonds?" but I am making a guess that you mean  'who owns it'.  If so, that is me.

By the way, "Whonds" you??

Sincerely
Cheryl Owen