In contrast, those with group A should thrive on a vegetarian diet as this blood group was believed to have evolved when humans settled down into agrarian societies. Based on the ‘Blood-Type’ diet theory, group O is considered the ancestral blood group in humans so their optimal diet should resemble the high animal protein diets typical of the hunter-gatherer era. D'Adamo postulates that the ABO blood group reveals the dietary habits of our ancestors and adherence to a diet specific to one's blood group can improve health and decrease risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease. The ‘Blood-Type’ diets have gained widespread attention from the public with more than 7 million copies sold in over 60 languages, and making the New York Times bestseller list. D'Adamo in his book “ Eat Right For Your Type” published in 1996. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.Ī link between ABO blood group and diet was proposed by P.J.

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: AE-S holds shares in Nutrigenomix Inc., a genetic testing company for personalized nutrition. JW is a recipient of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.įunding: This work was supported by grant 305352 from the Advanced Foods and Materials Network (to AE-S). Received: AugAccepted: NovemPublished: January 15, 2014Ĭopyright: © 2014 Wang et al. PLoS ONE 9(1):Įditor: Nick Ashton, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Citation: Wang J, García-Bailo B, Nielsen DE, El-Sohemy A (2014) ABO Genotype, ‘Blood-Type’ Diet and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.

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