Hi Anne. You seem like you know something about this diet. I was just wondering what your opinion is of eating high glycemic foods on the Type A diet. I am trying to lose a few pounds and have tried EVERY DIET AND EXERCISE PROGRAM out there. Mind you, I put on the weight while training for a marathon, so lack of exercise is probably not my problem. But now, I am back to just working out 2-3 times a week, not running 35 miles/week to prepare for marathon. But I digress. I have been following the Type A diet very closely for about eight weeks now, but I haven't really seen any results, except that I feel crappy when I eat meat or dairy products or large quantities of flour or sugar. Is it possible that I should not, in fact, be eating carrots and oat flour and amaranth flakes and soy milk if the Sugar just causes a surge of insulin and turns all that Sugar into fat? Am I making any sense to you? Pls. respond if you have a chance.
Kathryn K.

Yes I am!! Glad to meat you!!
I barely feel any shame anymore from the meat-eater label.
Meat settles my gut, causes no drowsyness. I am unique, of course, but all foods bother my IBS, just not meat, oddly. Oddly oddly oddly.

I had, for dinner last night, 200 gms of beef, two kinds of veggies [Brussel sprouts and aaparagus]. Tonight I had beets, Celery Root, and 200 gms of meat [red beef].

grains are so hard to get away from. I did find some rice pasta, which is just "a less bad grain".

And I restored my awful awful bowel problem to nearly normal now. At least I can poop again, and that was a very bad YEAR.

ORGANIC veggies, if you can, because if I get away from my diet [above] and eat the wrong thing, it is non-organic produce that cuases problems.

Note- potatoes are a heavily pesticided crop, and it is very nasty poisens too. Even organic potatoes are not good for my bowel, too starchy or something.
Gliandin in grains is "not digestable", and trans fats in hydrogentatd oils - I believe these are what caused constipation, strangley.

Fybromyalgia has been linked with Candida so you will feel better for cutting out the sugar, dairy and high carb veg like potato. It's a high protein low carb diet. Coconut oil is good against candida but not good for blood type A. Blood type A diet is vegetarian with some foods better for you than others eg Broccoli is very good but peppers/jalapeno is not.

I have come to the conclusion that the blood type A diet is not for me. I muscle tested with an organic tomato (not good for A) and got a positive result. However I did test a green Pepper and got a negative result - but it was not an organic pepper so I need to test that again. I think the reason people feel better on the diet is because they generally eat better, more veg etc., As for the properties of certain veg being healing as apposed to others, I think it's down to the individual, the composition of particular foods for illness, and nothing to do with the blood type.

By the way, there is so much mercury in the fish these days, you might want to look into it. I read a warning from the FDA recently recommending that pregnant women do not eat more than 2 cans of Tuna per week. The mercury content being high enough to endanger an unborn baby. I did read that the small fishes, mackerel, sardines, anchovies (suposedly bad for A) are fairly safe.

And raw eggs might not give you Salmonella but what about parasites?

I don't have the book sitting next to me, but generally Type As should stick to vegetables, fruits, and certain grains. Meat is taboo, and only small quantities of chicken and fish are allowed, and NO seafood or shellfish. No dairy products are allowed, except mozzarella cheese, I think, and an occasional egg. Most vegetables are allowed except tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, eggplant, and peppers of all kinds. Most fruits are allowed except for bananas, mangos (I think), oranges, tangerines, and a few other more exotic fruits. Wheat is taboo but oats, rice, buckwheat, kamut, millet, quinoa, etc. are allowed. Olive oil and flax seed oil are beneficial. Peanuts and walnuts are considered very beneficial but supposedly almonds are neutral and cashews and other nuts are bad.
Although your diet does not seem to follow the above, it sounds like you are doing great anyway. I have followed the Blood Type A diet since December and haven't found that it has made any appreciable difference in my well being or weight.