I see now why.. I clicked your link and there was the same message.

I have struggled with many diet plans and diet ideals for years. I have tried to go vegetarian, vegan and raw and did well for a couple of months, then got very weak. I am blood type O, but do not have the appetite for all that meat.
My Naturopath suggested that instead of following a specific diet to go with rough percentages of the kind of foods I eat. His suggestion: 80% fruits and vegetables, both raw and cooked, 10% animal products, both meat and dairy, and 10% grains, this includes sugar. This works well for me, and since nothing is expressly forbidden I do not feel deprived. If I want pizza or a burger once in a while, its OK as long as I stick to the diet for other meals. Just a few days ago I read the ideal diet should be 80% alkalizing foods and 20% acid forming foods to keep the body in balance. Well, fruits and veggies are normally alkalizing, while meats, dairy and grains can be acid forming. Looks like doc. had it right all along.

As you said, its all about the individual - some diet approaches do attempt to personalize the diet based on the individual, including the Blood Type Diet and metabolic typing you talk about. Others advocate that a diet rich in raw food (live food) is the only way to go, and many other combinations in between.
I ran into the same "wall" as you, because I started the metabolic typing diet (fast oxidizer, high purine diet) and felt good on it, and then checked into the Blood Type Diet and it turns out that I should be a vegetarian (type A) and avoid most meats and dairy. (I thought I was going to be a blood type B because I felt good on it).
There are some flaws with blood type (like any other diet), and most "oppressors" claim that most of us are not pure bred for one blood type and rather a whole mixture (even though only one type shows up as dominant).

Either way, its all about reading your body responses to food - if you do well with dairy, then you can benefit from it (its all about the quality of dairy (raw), a lot of people think that they are allergic to dairy but its because it has been processed). I had tested numerous foods and diets via EAV and the parasympathetic diet (fast oxidizer) seems to be the best fit for me.

Personally I try to follow Dr Prices advice on diet and food preparation because a great deal of a diet is how you prepare your foods and the quality of the foods (chemical or man-made processed food should be a no-no to everybody).
Mike

The wonderers asking in the 'Blood Type O' forum thank you for your thoughtful and quick responses.

A few years ago I met a woman at a Weight Watchers meeting. She told me that her (slender) husband had an eating habit that combined vegetables with protein/fat; and vegetables with starches/sugar; but never starches/sugar with protein/fat. I imagine he didn't overeat often, too.

(The Weight Watchers program, itself, limits the starches/sugar, and the protein/fat we take in. But it's a little less obvious than the straight out 'keep the starches/sugars away from the protein/fats.')

Also, anyone who has read my earlier posts, knows that I really like the instinctive and/or muscle-testing approach to well-being. This ISN'T because I think I can 'get away with' laxness!

I really believe that the body can and will tell us what we need and don't need, if we ask. But I also think we need to actually DO it...TEST our foods in some way that is independent from our habits and desires. And that takes a major effort. It is time-consuming to test everything in our cupboards, and everything we bring home. But we may need to spend that time and effort.

And we may need to EMPHASIZE the 'blessing' of our foods, etc., if that's what we want to try...at least, at first.

I think those who say grace over their meals may be on to something. But, if we haven't been doing this, perhaps we need to make a bit of a 'ceremony' of it, in order to separate ourselves from our 'let's eat' habits.

Perhaps it is for the emphasis of a 'ceremony' that Dr. Emoto leads groups to read poetry to bodies of water.

I've been 'blessing' my food, family, and home, as well as sending goodwill and well-being around this world. But, it's so non-satisfying to not see any feedback!!!

Is it working?

I know, I know, it is, but I have to be patient. (I actually do feel a bit better for it...but I want fireworks!)

Meanwhile, back to basics, as well.

Thanks, everyone.

fledgling