Andrea Hughett wrote:

>I'm confused as to how paleo eating fits in with
>eating for your blood type.  How would pre-industrial
>peoples. let alone hominids, know their blood type so
>they would know what kinds of food to eat?
>
>
IMHO it doesn't.  I think the people on this list who are the strongest
believers
of the blood type theory are those who discovered they were Type O and
are now eating something closer to paleo than the USDA grain pyramid they
used to eat.

As I understand it, D'Adamo believes that everybody (hominid) used to be
type O, and only
after agriculture were type A and type B invented.  According to this
theory,
paleos were all type O, and paleo food was the food that there was, so
it all worked out.  However, I have read that chimpanzees also
have type A and type B blood, from the wild, so things become more
complicated.  Wild chimpanzees certainly did not have blood type changes
due to
the increase of dairy products in their diet.

    Lynnet