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Dear Cheryl and Lynne,

The re-forwarded Nadeau's comments make an interesting reading. While I would certainly agree with her that D'Adamo's thesis of the relationship between our food and the blood-group of the individual is at best premature, at worst misleading, some of her assertions are even less based on experimental evidence than his. I am afraid, both of them are rather amateurish. On top I have a feeling that Dr Nadeau because of her rather limited English does not always say what she intends to say. I am afraid it is just not true that the peanut study has not been confirmed, but it is true that it has not been correlated with any blood group types.

What we keep coming back to is that some lectins are definitely toxic, such as the kidney bean lectin but whether it has any relationship to human blood groups is highly questionable. My guess is that it is not, judging from the mass poisonings in Berlin after the second world war or in Bosnia more recently by the emergency rations dropped from the air by the Americans and UN Agencies. It is highly unlikely that the victims belonged to one particular blood group type.

No, as I said before and assert it again, in some animals with less complex glycosyl expression patterns we can make predictions about the effect of certain foodstuffs when we have a reasonable glycosyl map in their alimentary tract but in humans it requires a very brave man (or a fool) to make similar predictions. We have some empirical observations and can speculate about these but not much more at present. Certainly, Dr Henry's paper is not a great help.

Best wishes for your studies

Arpad