Some more notes from my files re: blood type...

- 30% of Australian Aborigines have Type A blood

- "not one single disease is exclusive to one particular blood type."

Source: http://www.acu-cell.com/btd.html


D'Adamo: "The blood group A variant allowed humans to tolerate and better
assimilate grains and other agricultural products. Blood group A initially
appeared in any significant numbers in the early Caucasian peoples, sometime
between 25,000 and 15,000 B.C., somewhere in western Asia or the Middle
East."

My take: Since D'Adamo argues that people are best suited for the diet that
people of their blood type ate when the blood type first developed, and
since he says that Type A developed "sometime between 25,000 and 15,000
B.C.," and that Type O is older than Type A, and since none of the agrarian
foods that are prohibited by the Paleo diet were eaten in large quantities
before 10,000 BCE (according to Cordain and Audette), and since Type O and
Type A blood groups make up 85% of the world's population, then it would
follow from this that at least 85% of the world's population should be
eating the Paleo/Neanderthin/ancestral diet, not any of D'Adamo's blood type
diets (which all contain some agrarian foods, even the type O diet).

Since spelt's origins are widely considered to be no earlier than
6,000-5,000 BC [see
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/V3-156.html#SPELTOrigin],
much later than D'Adamo's origin date for the Type A blood group, his
recommendation of spelt for Type A and Type O diets seems foolish. His
including spelt in the type O diet also contradicts his advice that type O's
not eat gluten. Since no wheat grains with origins predating spelt are
widely available in the U.S., and since NO wheat grains are gluten free
(including spelt), it seems foolish to recommend ANY type of wheat for Type
A or Type O diets.