Dr. Peter D’ Adamo, a nutrition specialist, in his book “Eat right for your type” stated that food with lectins that are not in harmony with the cells of a particular blood group cause varying degree of damage and disease in the body. Such food should be avoided by people who belong to such blood group because they are like poison in the body system. He opined that blood group As, for example, should avoid meat and take yoga; type Os should eat a high protein, low carbohydrates diets. Bs can do well on diary product; ABs have all the benefits and tolerance of As and Bs e.g an adherence who is a type A, confirms that as a high fan of Yoga, he thus feel better when he sticks to vegetarian diets.
O person may be poisoned for a blood group A person.
From the foregoing, it thus pay for a middle Adulthood person to stick to diet akin to his blood group to avoid being sick.
Cooking methods recommended by experts for elderly persons (Adults), include boiling, baking, roasting, poaching etc. These are the preferred methods of cooking rather than frying.
Dr. Udo Erasmus, a Canadian expert in nutrition, notes that the danger attached to fried foods are better avoided than to rely on drugs when the body develops problems.
He asserted that research consistently conducted indicate that fried fats cause cancer and hardening of arteries, saying that when foods are fried, they are burnt, adding that the chemistry of oil molecules change when oil is fried into smoke. He further stated that the chemically changed molecules, do not fit precisely into the biochemical architecture of our body and that the chemically changed molecules interfere with how the cells function.
Reiterating that “cancers and hardened arteries are the result of failure the body’s inability to deal with these altered molecules. The expert opined that “if health is what we want, water is the only oil appropriate for frying i.e. steaming our foods. According to him, all burned foods: toasted, roasted, baked, broiled and barbecued are not exempted.
He asserted that the brown part of such food are toxic but that the inner part is okay for consumption.
As for cooking oils, only virgin olive oil is recommend because it remains unrefined and undeodorised, others have gone through processing where they had been treated by harsh processes, he said.
Some experts in health cycles frowns at the excessive indulgence of some people in what they call the “whites”: white eggs, white flour, white milk, sugar, and salt. They however indicated that white meat, like chicken should be eaten, provided the skin is removed before cooking. As for salt, the recommended intake per day should be 5g.
However, moderation should be the key word for all we consume. ###.
By Azuka Dibie
