| Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley | | | | research laboratories to prove the value |
| Dr. Peter D'Adamo also addresses the | | | | of their products for consumers? It is |
| personality question by saying that Os | | | | in the millions, if not billions. |
| carry a genetic memory of strength, | | | | Is it any wonder why Dr. D'Adamo's |
| endurance, self-reliance, daring, | | | | clinical and laboratory research is |
| intuition and innate optimism. All of | | | | discredited by some major money |
| those qualities I possess as well as | | | | interests? A lot of what D'Adamo is |
| being a risk taker. | | | | saying about O blood types runs counter |
| I would be the last person in the world | | | | to their vested interests. Dr. Atkins |
| to be happy working as hired help for a | | | | suffered through the same criticism |
| major corporation, or as a bureaucrat in | | | | before he was proven correct. |
| a public service position, or in the | | | | I predict Dr. D'Adamo will eventually |
| military as a volunteer soldier. I am a | | | | prevail as Dr. Atkins did. It just may |
| Vietnam Veteran but I would never have | | | | take a number of years to happen. |
| been a career military person. | | | | I used to drink soda pop like water and |
| I figured out real quick in life that if | | | | now I drink water like I used to drink |
| you have any intelligence, talent, | | | | soda pop. A 20-ounce bottle of soda pop |
| creativity, productivity and especially | | | | or even Gatorade is loaded with sugar. |
| integrity, you will find it much harder | | | | Most sports drinks are loaded with |
| to progress and prosper if you are not | | | | sugar. |
| self-employed in your own business. | | | | A 12-ounce can of Coca-Cola Classic has |
| I answer to myself first, last and | | | | high fructose corn syrup as well as 140 |
| always. Type Os like me are stable, | | | | calories and 39 grams of sugar (thus 39 |
| reliable, dependable, responsible and | | | | carbohydrates). A single, 20-ounce |
| accountable for their actions. If I | | | | bottle of Coca-Cola Classic has high |
| screw up, I admit it, self-correct and | | | | fructose corn syrup as well as |
| get on with being successful. This could | | | | approximately 265 calories and 65 grams |
| be why Type Os are known as loners. | | | | of sugar (thus 65 carbohydrates). |
| Supplements can also be important. For | | | | I used to down 4 or 5 of these 20-ounce |
| example, a surprising amount of chronic | | | | bottles a day and could easily put away |
| joint pain (especially in the lower back | | | | a 2-liter bottle of Classic Coke on a |
| and knees) in Type O patients (and | | | | weekend day. I have switched to plain |
| certainly runners) has been helped with | | | | water and the 23.7-ounce Grape Propel, |
| a short period of manganese | | | | which has a total of 30 calories and 6 |
| supplementation, according to Dr. | | | | grams of sugar per bottle. |
| D'Adamo. | | | | I suggest that you consider doing the |
| Manganese supplementation should only be | | | | same unless you want to float away like |
| done under a physician's supervision, | | | | I did. I got to the point where it |
| even if you can buy the supplement over | | | | seemed that if I ingested a grain of |
| the counter. | | | | simple cane sugar my pancreas would |
| Here are some other facts that are | | | | automatically pump out 8 ounces of |
| interesting from Dr. D'Adamo about Type | | | | insulin to regulate the amount of |
| Os: | | | | glucose in my blood. I am kidding but |
| 1) Aspirin's blood-thinning properties | | | | you get the point. |
| can be trouble as Type Os already have | | | | My hormonal balance was so screwed up |
| thin blood. | | | | with excess sugar and wheat flour |
| 2) Type Os should avoid penicillin-class | | | | products, both adding fat I did not |
| antibiotics as their immune systems are | | | | want, that I was gaining weight faster |
| more allergically sensitive to this | | | | than putting bricks on a scale. |
| class of drugs. I was given penicillin | | | | Now all of that nonsense is over. |
| as a child; when given penicillin as an | | | | Coca-Cola will have to find another |
| adult, I developed a severe reaction to | | | | customer for its products. |
| penicillin. If I am given a shot of | | | | In America it seems that we have a lobby |
| penicillin today, it will kill me within | | | | for everything and every group. There |
| minutes. I am told that if I took | | | | cannot be two more powerful and |
| penicillin in tablet form and my stomach | | | | effective lobbies in the United States |
| was pumped immediately, I might have a | | | | today than the sugar lobby and the wheat |
| chance to remain alive. | | | | flour lobby. They are literally part of |
| If you think D'Adamo's advice on this | | | | many foods we eat. |
| did not get my attention, you are dead | | | | No wonder we are getting fatter and |
| wrong. | | | | fatter by the meal. Well, at least most |
| 3) Try to avoid macrolide-class | | | | of us. I am getting skinner every time I |
| antibiotics. Erythromycin and the newer | | | | eat and drink. I will run faster too and |
| macrolides Biaxin and Zithromax can | | | | will be happy to do so. |
| aggravate bleeding tendencies in Type | | | | Lifelong runners like myself who have |
| Os. | | | | been training and competing forever (47 |
| The bottom line from Peter D'Adamo, who | | | | years plus) know that there is an |
| is a naturopathic physician and | | | | inescapable correlation between your |
| ridiculed by some other physicians who | | | | weight and your cardiovascular |
| think they are God's answer to medicine, | | | | efficiency. |
| is this: Try to avoid over-the-counter | | | | Essentially, when you lose 10% of your |
| medications as there are natural | | | | body weight, you increase your |
| alternatives that work just as well or | | | | cardiovascular efficiency 10%. |
| better. | | | | When my weight drops 65 pounds from 225 |
| When I researched the ingredient labels | | | | to 160, I will have lost at least 28% of |
| on foods at the supermarket I was amazed | | | | my body weight, meaning my |
| at how many food products include wheat | | | | cardiovascular efficiency will increase |
| flour, high fructose corn syrup and | | | | 28%. Trust me when I say that upon |
| simple sugars. | | | | reaching my ideal weight, you will know. |
| Do you realize how much money the wheat | | | | I will be the guy screaming the news on |
| flour, high fructose corn syrup and | | | | top of my house for everyone to hear. |
| simple sugar interests dole out in | | | | (Editor's Note: This is Part 5 of a |
| research grants every year to medical | | | | 5-Part Article. |