I've been pouring over LR4YT and I'm confused about Tier 1 & tier 2 foods. If I am basically healthy can I pick benefial foods from Tier 1, Tier 2, and General nutritional sulplementation?
Also, I'm guessing there is a typo in the veggies section on servings. Should that be 2-3 daily instead of weekly?
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page 118 in LR4YT there is a brief explanation of the two tier system. Tier One: maximize health: Tier Two: overcome disease: tiers don't apply to non-secretors.
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I am also basically healthy and eat as many beneficials from tier 1 and tier 2, then as Yaman said recently if you are still hungry fill up on the general nutritional supplementation section.
That's a great link Kent put up....make sure you check it out Audrey.
OK, I went to the link from above, and it says "If you are doing the non-secretor version of your ABO plan, you are automatically doing the tier two values, so relax". I'm guessing the ABO plan is referring to my blood type diet. Is that right?
Does this also mean, I should be using the Tier 2 list and not combining Tier 1 & 2?
Then there's a note. "If you are a nonsecretor and MM, use the nonsecretor values in preference to the MM values." What's MM?
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I just read LR4YT and am confused by the two tiers.
If I am following a weight loss regimen, can I only eat things that are listed on the Two Tier section? For instance: eggs aren't listed on either Type I or Type I. They are listed separately. How does this figure into everything?
I just read LR4YT and am confused by the two tiers.
The description in the book confuses many people.
This is from the errata:
Tier One is the basis of the diet for everyone.
If you simply wish to maintain and enhance your current level of health, use only Tier One as your basis of beneficials and avoids, and simply add the tier two foods to your neutral category. You'll be doing the 'most important' beneficials and avoids. You can consider this version the 'Blood Type Diet Lite' as it is easy to follow and only requires that you know your ABO type.
You may want to visit this page for additional comments:
So, if you are following Tier II, then you can have the ones on Tier One and Tier Two, as well? But if you are following Tier I, you treat everything on Tier Two as a neutral?
Sorry, I'm still confused.
I know I'm being a pain, but I'm trying to incorporate this diet into my life, and would like to understand it better.
Regarding wheat and corn: they are marked as neutral, yet Dr. D recommends not having ANY of them if you are trying to overcome chronic disease, lose weight, etc...
Does this include sprouted wheat? I bought the Ezekiel brand he recommended, but then in LR4YT, it states that you should avoid ALL wheat. Does this include the sprouted Ezekiel?
I truly appreciate everyone's guidance as I learn this new way of living.
So, if you are following Tier II, then you can have the ones on Tier One and Tier Two, as well? But if you are following Tier I, you treat everything on Tier Two as a neutral?
Yes, that's it!
For type A, my understanding is that ezekial bread is fine (as long as all the wheat is sprouted).
However, a few type A's seem to still report problems with sprouted wheat products (perhaps from allergies or celiac disease).
It would seem to be the other way around. So, if you are just following the diet loosely: you shouldn't have the things listed as "Beneficial" on Tier Two? The items listed as "Beneficial" (such as green beans) on Tier Two only turn into "neutral"???
One other thing Kent: (I just read the website page The foods on Tier Two are the MOST beneficial? Is that the way to look at it? Eating more of those helps speed recovery?
I consider tier one to have the strongest beneficials and the strongest avoids.
The tier one beneficials and avoids are always the most important to observe.
Observing tier one will be enough for many people to maintain their health.
However, some people already have impaired health and need healing.
These people may have to follow a more strict diet.
So the BTD is refined to exclude the tier two avoids. The most important beneficials are still in tier one. However, for maximum healing minimize neutrals and use tier two beneficials instead of the neutrals (do not reduce the quantity of tier one beneficials).
Hope this helps, others may have insights as well.
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follow the portion and frequency guidelines as outlined in Live Right. Also, Peter recommends favoring Tier Two foods for weight loss.
Tier One: maximize health: This level, along with neutral foods for general nutritional supplmentation will suffice for most healthy individuals.
Tier Two: overcome disease: These adaptations are designed for those who are suffering from a chronic disease, or wish to follow the diet at a higher compliance level.
The exercise guidelines per specific blood groups assist with weight loss, maintaining emotional health, and lowering/stabilizing cortisol levels. ................................... tier system EVERYONE should eat according to the Tier ONE food lists, and everyone should choose Beneficials over Neutrals as often as possible. If you desire only moderate compliance, that's as far as you need to go--and you can pretend that all of the foods in the Tier TWO list have the value "Neutral." If, on the other hand, you desire stricter (Tier TWO level) compliance, then you should eat according to BOTH lists COMBINED--not just the list labeled "Tier Two." So if you have been ignoring the distinction between the tiers and treating them as one big list, then you're already aiming for Tier TWO compliance! The way I personally use the Tier system is this: I strive to avoid all foods marked AVOID on either list (Tier TWO compliance), but if I know that circumstances are going to require me to eat an AVOID food, I try to make it one of the ones on the "Tier Two" list because I figure that these are the lesser evils.
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The Beneficials on Tier Two are still Beneficials, but the ones marked "Avoid" for Tier Two are actually neutrals if you are following the Tier One plan.
If you are following Tier Two:
Then those that are marked "Avoid" (which would be neutrals for those following Tier One) are still AVOIDS.
Basically, the difference in the two tiers isn't in the "Beneficials" it's that some foods are neutrals if you are just trying to maintain, but the are Avoids if you are trying to heal.
I hope I don't further confuse the idea, but here's how I look at it.
If a food is listed as avoid, whether it is tier 1 or tier 2, it is still actuallyan avoid, in truth.
However, if you don't want to be so strict with yourself for whatever reason, and you want to allow yourself more leeway than someone who wants to be compliant all the time......Then look at tier 1 as the best beneficials and the worst avoids. If you want to just be "somewhat compliant".
If you are going to eat avoids, the ones in tier 2 won't do you as much damage as the ones in tier 1.
Those of us who have had serious illnesses or need serious weight management, will just follow the guidelines in both tiers.
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Connect14, it is not you. It is very confusing. This is why I never recommend LR4YT as the first/main BTD book for someone's BTD arsenal*. It is a great book in many ways, and one that I highly recommend as being an essential part of one's BTD library/collection, but the tier thing is really confusing (I'm still confused about it and I've been on the BTD since before LR4YT was even a gleam in Dr. D.'s eye!), and also there are a few errors in LR4YT about portion recommendations which really change the liveability of the diet if you don't know that they are errors (fruit portions should be per DAY not per WEEK, as the book says...these errors are cleared up on this site, but not everyone who gets the books also sees this site). ANYWAY, LR4YT is a great book with all kinds of groundbreaking info. (on secretor status and diet in particular), but the tier thing is...not my fave thing ever, let's put it that way.
Therefore, this is what I recommend to people who are in "tiers" over the whole concept of the tiers: Ignore the tiers and treat beneficials as beneficials, neutrals as neutrals, and avoids as avoids, no matter what "tier" they are in. This is how, it turns out, non-secretors like me are supposed to treat the whole thing anyway. So, if you are a nonnie, voila, dat's the way to go anyway. I think secretors can't go wrong by doing that, too.
My advice (and this is just my advice) is to ignore the tiers and go by the food's rating on Typebase4, when in doubt, as that is the updated, gold standard. You can certainly go by the rating in the book, LR4YT, if you like, but ignore the "tier system". Look at the tiers as a system that overlays the main rating system of beneficials, neutrals and avoids but is not a part of it. One can choose to use the tier system in addition to the main system, but you don't HAVE to use them at all, which is lucky for those of us who cannot make heads or tails out of it in the first place *lol*!!!
Pretend you are a nonnie and ignore the tiers! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
* The first book should be ER4YT or the encyclopedia...preferrably good old ER4YT.
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They are beneficial. If I understand correctly, they just are not quite as beneficial as the Tier One beneficials.
Yep I agree ! I still like the 1,2,3,4,5 version as you wrote about earlier ... I think it is easier to understand.
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