Category: On The Diet
Linden Confusion: Type B, High Blood Pressure
February 5th, 2000 , by admin
Hi Heidi...
Can you stand one more question about a discrepancy between two Eat Right books???
Sure! :-D
In the original Eat Right book Linden is an avoid for Type B. In the Encyclopedia, Linden is listed as an anti-inflammatory and nerve health agent.
I take a naturopathic tincture for high blood pressure. Before ER, it contained linden - along with rowolfia and hawthorne. We eliminated the linden after ER, but I was wondering if we should put it back in now? Has the status changed?? Thanks ~~ Linda
The Encyclopedia's entries on linden are correct. New research since Eat Right was published in 1996 has been extensive, resulting in updated values and recommended usages for a number of items.
If your homeopath or naturopath suggests you add linden back into the mix, there's no ABO-specific reason not to do so.
The antistress protocol Peter recommends for type Bs with hypertension includes the use of visualization. I note it here just as a reminder that directed visualization has been shown to exert powerful influence on an unexpectedly wide variety of ailments. Bs in general seem to have a special knack for it and appear to receive greater benefits from it than others do. I'd also like to suggest the book Meditation as Medicine by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth, for the several brief "medical meditations" and other information specific to hypertension. These practices can produce results in astonishing proportion to the small amount of time required to perform them.
Good luck, good health and keep in touch!
Warm Weather Desserts ~ Type B
February 4th, 2000 , by adminDon St. John, a frequent contributor, writes:
While at the grocery store today I looked at a few of the frozen desserts trying to find a sorbet that would be OK. I didn't find one but I did find that some of the Häagen-Dazs ice cream flavors don't use corn syrups or gums. They are the "best" frozen desserts I have found in a store so far.
I copied a couple of their flavor ingredients from their web site, http://www.haagen-dazs.com/.
Vanilla Ice Cream: Cream, Skim Milk, Sugar, Egg Yolks, Natural Vanilla.
Chocolate Ice Cream: Cream, Skim Milk, Sugar, Egg Yolks, Cocoa Processed with Alkali.
Strawberry Ice Cream: Cream, Strawberries, Skim Milk, Sugar, Egg Yolks.
Cherry Vanilla Ice Cream: Cream, Skim Milk, Sugar, Black Cherries, Egg Yolks, Black Cherry Juice Concentrate, Natural Vanilla, Natural Flavor, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Pectin.
Even taking a dim view of the "natural flavor" ingredient in the cherry vanilla (due to the term being so commonly used as a commercial euphemism for corn syrup, but a call to Häagen-Dazs may prove otherwise), this list looks pretty wonderful for type Bs!
Thanks, Don!!!
Encyclopedia Questions, Continued
February 3rd, 2000 , by adminhas a different value as the p572 NAG. Are they 2 different products?
No, it's the same product. All the usages listed are valid for N-acetyl Glucosamine, also known as NAG.
Heidi, In the Blood Type Encyclopedia, on page 488 at the bottom of the page on the left, it lists Co Enzyme Q10: 3 mg. Is that correct, or should it be 30 mg?
It should be 30 mg. Many CoQ10 supplements have even higher dosages, due to the low bioavailability of the CoQ10 in those specific preparations. There is a fairly new product called "Q-Gel," which claims to deliver more of the active compound per mg than other formulations do.
On page 103 of the Encyclopedia, Dr. D'Adamo recommends vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) in a dose of 20-30mg/kg for Type O's. For an 80kg man such as myself, that would equal up to 2400mg (2.4g) of vitamin B6 per day. The Merck Manual warns against such a high dosage -- can you confirm if this is correct? Ryan
That is an error: it should read, "2-3 mg/kg." We'll make sure the publisher is made aware of this correction -- thanks, Ryan!
One more for the Encyclopedia Errata - on p. 332 there is a recommendation to take 200 mg. of Melatonin. (YES, 200 mg.!) Take care! -- Judy
200 mg is the high end of dosage range for melatonin. Since the appropriate dose and the timing of it vary so much between individuals, you are squarely in front of your own drawing board if you decide to try it. Each increment starting at .1 mg (1 mcg) all the way up to 200 mg has proved ideal for at least one person. :-) I suspect this entry in the Encyclopedia could reasonably be changed to read "200 mcg," or .2 mg, which is a good starting point if you wish to experiment with this substance. Here’s an informative webpage on melatonin, with a detailed discussion of its functions in humans, and reliable guidelines for using it.
Thanks, everyone!
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