Good morning!

Wanted to say "hello" before I bound off to work. Enjoying my lemon and water this morning. This weekend has been pretty compliant but not as compliant as usual and I can feel it. I'm almost positive my "monthly visitor" is coming because I had a random acute stomach pain yesterday morning after the lemon water. The lemons never make me feel that way. Like someone's twisting a knife in my intestines for 20 seconds? I only used to get them, quite frequently and at random times, right before you know what came. I wonder which avoid that it is that does that to me? I hadn't felt that since before the diet. (March)

Lovely weekend - went out for a drive on Friday, Saturday was a family get together with lots of in-laws and Sunday we went out to celebrate a friend's b-day at a Chinese Buffet. Very busy - certainly not enough time to clean my bedroom or cook much but I got some domestic work done. :-)

And now, to answer some questions:

Karen asked about Tomatoes and AB - as far as I know, I feel fine. But, you are the second person to mention something about AB blood and joint pain from tomatoes. I will pass this along to the doctor. Maybe they're not so good for us after all? Or maybe it's just a secretor status thing? I don't know. But, if you find tomatoes or any other food that's listed as "neutral" does something bad to your body - definately stay away. Cook Right For Your Type as a recipe for tomato-less pizza which others have told me is very yummy. Your comments and another's definately have me questioning the validity of the tomato (especially since papaya's have more lycopene!) I will keep you all updated on any tomato news - it's in almost as many things we Americans eat as corn! Hard to stay away from but, not impossible. :-)



Angelina asked about my secretor status. It is something I would love to get. I have the kit sitting right on top of my pile of magazines. However, if you look at the form that you send in with it, it states that they can not do this if you live in NY. Appearantly (sp?) there is a NY state law that prohibits the mailing of that much saliva (probably a result of 9/11 or anthrax scares) It really pisses me off. I'm sure I can find a way around this somehow, but it's taking some time. So yes, I too can't wait to find out my secretor status but until I can find a loop hole, NAP is obligated to send me my money back if I try to send in my stuff since it's "illegeal" (another spelling mistake?) where I am. It really sucks. Angelina, I don't know if your doctor has read the books but, in Live Right and the even more updated version in the Blood Type Encyclopedia - has food lists that break up food by secretor status. Your doctor's right in that it doesn't make a huge difference for us. But, it can make a remarkable difference for some foods - the biggest one I've noticed? That the various "WHEATS" that are "neutral" for secretor AB's are "AVOIDS" for non-secretor AB's. And we know how much wheat there is in everything......It's definately something worth having done - if you don't live in NY that is :-)

And last but not least, here is the ingredient list, Lola, for the "Organic Soy Delicious" non-dairy frozen dessert, distributed by a company called "Turtle Mountain". Sorry it took so long. This is what's on the label of the chocolate peanut butter variety:

organic soymilk (filtered water, organic soybeans)

organic dehydrated cane juice,

organic brown rice syrup and/or organic tapioca syrup,

organic peanuts (roasted in organic peanut oil, salt)

organic soybean oil and/or organic safflower oil,

organic cocoa (processed with alkali)

organic gum acacia,

organic potato starch,

chicory root extract,

vanilla extract,

carob bean gum,

guar gum,

carrageenan,

algin (kelp extract)

yucca extract,

non-gmo potato sugar,

natural flavors

As you can see, it still contains some avoids so, don't go eating the whole carton at once. But like I've heard from so many people - you can't sweat the small stuff. I hate when the list an "or" ingredient - don't they know what the h*$# it is they're putting into their product?!?! There shouldn't be an and/or ingredient, especially when it's an avoid like the tapioca and safflower!!! grrrrrrrrrr.....Other avoids in this are gum acacia, guar gum and the carrageenan. And if your an O the potato and yucca ingredients should definately keep you away. I'll try other flavors - maybe there's less avoids. This is still more diet compliant however, than a big bowl of Ben & Jerry's so don't worry to much about the few avoids, just keep it all in moderation!