6 Popular Diet Fads Continues Part 2- The Blood Type Diet from Fitness Elements Express!

6 Popular Diet Fads and the Scientific Discovery behind them Part 2- The Blood Type Diet

The How to's on Designing your own Healthy Diet

Here is a quick look on some of the most popular Diets and what has been discovered with these various type diets. This will be a six part discussion and education for you on determining and forming your own personal view. While there are literally hundreds of fad diets that have been promoted over the years that we could discuss, we will limit the discussion to the following popular diets:

The Atkins diet
The Blood Type Diet
The Ornish diet
The Macrobiotic diet
The vegetarian diet
The Zone diet

Today we will start and discuss the Blood Type diet and what the outcomes and conclusions were. This is part two of the six part series of articles.

The Blood Type Diet

The Blood Type Diet is the culmination of nearly four decades of work conducted by Peter D'Adamo, N.D., and his father, James D' Adamo, N.D. It was popularized by the best-selling book by the younger D'Adamo, Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type. The principles of the Blood Type Diet are based on the theory that people with different blood types respond differently to specific foods. The concept is always based on evolutionary history and the observation that different blood types emerged as the environmental conditions and eating styles of our ancestors changed. Between 50,000 B.C.E. and 15,000 B.C.E as a necessary adaptation to a more agrarian lifestyle. Climatic changes in the western Himalayan mountains led to the appearance of type B, and the blending of type A and B blood types in modern civilization resulted in the appearance of the type AB blood type.

According to the Blood Type Diet, the physiological reason why people should eat according to their blood type relates to lectins, proteinlike substances found in many commonly eaten foods. Lectins, also known as phytoheagglutins, were first identified in 1888, at which time was discovered that lectins interact with sugar-containing molecules on the surface of cells. This discovery allowed certain lectins to be used in blood typing, since blood type is determined by the presence or absence of specific sugar-protein residues on the surface of red blood cells.

Although most of the lectins found in food are destroyed by cooking or digestive enzymes, Dr. D' Adamo believes that as many as 5 percent of the lectins we take in through our diet are absorbed into the bloodstream, and some of these our incompatible with our blood type. Many food antigen is eaten by a person with type A, type B, or type AB blood, the immune system recognizes that lectin as a foreign invader. Dr. D'Adamo implicates this lectin-caused immune response as the orgin of many common health complaints and believes that if you want to prevent health problems, it is important to eat foods that are compatible with your blood type.

To conclude my opinion of the Blood Type Diet along with my references is that blood type is just one genetic variable. In fact the ABO system is only one of the many different blood -typing methods, and to date more than thirty unique markers have been identified on the surface of red blood cells. In addition, one of the key suppositions of this diet is that dietary lectins are actually absorbed, but most of the research on, lectins has been performed in test tubes, not humans. Since many food lectins are destroyed by cooking , digestive enzymes, and bacteria in the intestines, it is not really known to what degree, if any, dietary lectins are absorbed. Nonetheless, there is some evidence to support the link between dietary lectins and some disease. All this being said their is some validity to the program but not all related to just blood typing alone.

Until part three the Ornish Diet have a healthy and happy day!

References: Michael Murray N.D., Joseph Pizzorno N.D., and Lara Pizzorno M.A., L.M.T

By, Natalie Pyles

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What Fad Diet's Don't Teach

Did you know that that every year Americans have spent $33 billion annually on weight loss foods, products, services, and the next diet fad and trend (ADA,2009)? That is an unbelievable number of weight-loss gimmicks that we as Americans and our obsession with losing weight have truly thrown right into the toilet. While some weight-loss frauds merely slim down the wallets (instead of the bodies) of those who get confused and use them, others may endanger their victims. When will this ever stop? And, of course, almost all of them fail to produce permanent weight loss. I guess if you are too lazy to truly investigate or do your own homework part of this responsibility should lie on you! Yes I said you! It may sound harsh but I've been around far too long and know the truth about weight loss and you should by know too!

Diet quacks want people to believe that special food combinations and/ or supplements promote quick and effortless weight loss (Barrett). The bottom line is input and output my health and fitness friends. What that means to you is an appropriate amount of exercise and eating that is customized to fit your whole health, fitness, and nutritional needs period.

How Weight-Loss Quackery Harms

Frances Berg, MS, RD, editor of the Healthy Weight Journal, notes that the most insidious aspect of weight-loss quackery is that it creates false hope for people trying to lose weight. Repeated attempts to lose weight, followed by the inevitable regain, bring on a sense of failure, shame, and powerlessness. It batters the self-esteem and is psychologically damaging. With their magical solutions and outrageous promises, weight-loss quacks undermine responsible weight management programs and make them seem ineffective by comparison (Berg).

Kelly Brownell, an obesity expert in the psychology department at Yale University, states, "When I get calls about the latest diet fad, I imagine a trick birthday cake candle that keeps lighting up and we have to keep blowing it out" (Liebman).

Weight loss is a lucrative field for quacks, and they are not shy about exploiting it. Our first Amendment protects them. To help combat weight-loss quackery, health and fitness professionals should be able to both recognize dietary fads and educate their clients on proper weight-loss strategies. So my health and fitness friends when you are searching for the proper education and right approach to your weight loss strategy and weight management make sure you use your wisdom and gut on this one it could cost you your life.

What Fad Diet's Don't Teach

Fad diets and fasting are also faulty from a behavioral standpoint, because they tend to reinforce bad habits once the dieters return to their usual eating habits. What you had to do to get the weight off you have to keep up that Lifestyle and this is exactly why dieters fail over and over again. Dieters are also distracted from the truth that a real long-term weight control requires fundamental changes in Lifestyle period. (Barrett). I should know I am living proof of this myself I took off 65 pounds at age 18 and I am now 35 and never gained my weight back ever. I have exercised and eaten a sensible eating plan for my lifestyle ever since. I practice what I preach and do what I tell you my health and fitness friends. Once a food addict always a food addict.

The dieter is encouraged to learn about the consumption, planning, and preparation of foods to make well-educated food selections. Rather, most diets establish rigid rules and limitations that can only be followed for a short time. Typically, the dieter abandons the diet and the weight is regained ( Barrett).

Fad diets appeal to the emotions and therefore perpetuate the myth that weight loss can be achieved quickly and easily. Rarely do they address the need to make basic changes in what are life-long ways of looking at and dealing with food (Barrett). That is why I highly suggest journals when you eat so you are aware of why you are eating what your eating and being aware of what you are doing it for. With are hectic lifestyle today fast food shoveling is making us more unhealthful and stressed out than ever before. Try to remember the three P's when approaching making your lifestyle changes, proper planning prevents poor performance. Good luck my health and fitness friends with making the right decision for your food and fitness choices for life.


Have a happy and healthy day!


References: Nutrition Dimension, Ellen Coleman, (Barrett and Herbert),(Liebman), and (Berg).


By, Natalie Pyles


NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

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3 Harms of Quackery caused by Outbreaks Revealed! Part 3

This will be a four part series on Harm done by Quackery that will include: indirect harm by omission, psychological harm, economic harm, social harm, and direct harm by commission. This four part series will discuss how the harm caused by quackery fits into these categories.

Indirect Harm

Quackery can seriously harm or kill people by persuading them to abandon, delay, or fail to seek effective medical treatment for grave medical conditions (Barrett and Jarvis, ADA 2008). This is considered indirect harm by omission (Calif. Medical Association). While the number of people lured away from effective treatment into disability or death cannot be ascertained, it is apparently not large enough or obvious enough to provoke a public outcry (Barrett and Jarvis).

Direct Harm

Direct harm is considered harm by commission such as poisoning, maiming, malnutrition, or injury (Barrett and Jarvis). This category includes dangers posed by herbs, herb and drug interactions, contaminated and adulterated supplements, excess vitamins and minerals, and the macrobiotic diet. The L- trytophan tragedy will be discussed first since it is good example of the harm that can occur when dietary supplements are sold without proof of safety, efficacy, potency, or purity (Foster and Tyler).


Economic Harm

Here is an example of what direct harm can do and why it is up to you to be preventative and use true wisdom before it is life threatening to you or anyone you know and care for. Most victims of Quackery are harmed economically rather than physically (Barrett and Jarvis). The true cost of quackery is difficult to calculate, but is likely in the tens of billions of dollars, especially when considering the cost of purchasing products (such as some supplements) that may do no harm but also provide no benefit (ADA,2008 Updated).

Quackery that involves small sums of money and no bodily injury is often considered harmless. For example, a person who buys a protein supplement from multilevel marketer is going to go broke. This is your choice on the matter I personally use my own products but I am clear and upfront with all my customers and clients. Retail shopping is always an o.k. way to shop too, but honesty is always what you want in dealing with any Health Care professional. Use your Gut on this matter!! However, this practice may indicate confusion on the part of the person and vulnerability to more serious (and expensive) forms of quackery (Barrett and Jarvis).

Americans spent $5.8 billion or more each year on multilevel health products (Nutrition Business Journal, 2008). Those that have nutritional value (such as vitamins and low-fat foods) are, without fail, overpriced. Do me a favor look at quality and how long a product will last you that is fairly priced for the proven quality suggested by a Licensed Health Care professional not someone off the streets that knows nothing about supplements. The products promoted as remedies are phony, unproven, or intended for conditions that are unsuitable for self-medication. Also, people who distribute multilevel products are generally not qualified to give health advice(NCAHF 2008; Barrett and Herbert). Just use good judgment on this topic my health and fitness friends and make sure you are taking advice from a Health and Nutrition expert that will not harm you or make you a product of Nutrition Quackery.

This article was not written to scare you or make you afraid of everything out on the market, because I see no point in being scared of everything that is no fun and not my position at all. I do want you educated, and informed on what you put into your body. You also must get as credible as possible sources of information to what you truly need. These are scary times we are living in and all kinds of things are coming out of the wood works so please be advised.

To conclude: As you know Government actions against multilevel organizations have not been energetic by any stretch at all, so you must be you own good consumer and do your homework. Remember these companies are left alone unless their advertising is so flagrant and their sales volume so great that regulatory agency is obliged to intercede. Best advice be your own advocate, get the facts, and the real truth.

Have a healthy and happy day!!

To yours in Health, Fitness, and serious Nutrition talk,

Natalie Pyles

References: Nutrition Dimension, Ellen Coleman, (Barrett and Herbert), (Foster and Tyler).

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

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As fad diets come and go, the weight goes up and down.

When bathing suit season approaches, there’s always a diet that promises you’ll be thinner in six weeks. The appeal of these diets comes from the hope that we can be slim and trim with as little effort as possible. Most fad diets work in the beginning, usually because the suggested eating regimens help you cut calories in one way or another. But diets that restrict certain food groups or promise unrealistic results are difficult – or unhealthy – to sustain over time. As soon as you go back to your usual eating patterns, the weight comes piling back on. This creates the yo-yo effect of losing and regaining weight.

There is no magic bullet.

No matter which hook a fad diet is using, it isn’t reasonable to expect miraculous weight loss that will last. The trick is to find an everyday eating plan that not only keeps the pounds off but also provides the right balance of calories and nutrition – and that combination requires a lifestyle change.

While most fad diets result in quick weight loss early on, more research is needed on the effectiveness for long-term weight loss. If followed for a long time, these diets may result in potential health problems. To lose weight safely and effectively, you should eat an appropriate number of calories from a balanced diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free dairy products. Also cut back on the nutrient-poor foods, and be physically active.

You’ll know it’s a fad diet if it:

* Promises magic or miracle foods that burn fat.
* Requires you to eat unusual quantities of only one food or food type.
* Requires rigid menus of a limited selection of foods to be eaten at a specific time and day.
* Requires you to eat specific food combinations in certain sequences or combinations.
* Promises rapid weight loss of more than two pounds a week.
* Has no warning for those with diabetes or high blood pressure to seek medical advice before starting the diet.
* Does not include increased physical activity as part of the plan.

References: American Heart Association

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