Is meat eating Genetically necessary for some?

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Thanks Juliana for the interesting info. My family &

lineage is entirely brahmin on both sides. My parents,

siblings & I are all A+. My father was a strict veggie

till he joined the Navy in his teens & changed

radically & happily ate all kinds of meat. Mom tried

it (for his sake) but could not change her vegetarian

self. We siblings were brought up on an occasional

meat but mostly vegetarian diet. I am vegetarian most

of the time but get seafood & meat cravings sometimes.

Could that be because of the change in my father's

diet years before my birth ? Though I'm fine after

eating seafood, I don't feel too good (guilty maybe ?)

after eating meat. Is that my blood type / racial

memory telling me to go veg ? My elder sis has become

vegetarian esp since she started doing yoga quite

regularly. The eldest sis is vegetarian as she's

married to a strict veggie. I know she too (like me )

has occasional seafood cravings.

 

--- Juliana Swanson <omhamsa wrote:

 

> Hey y'all...

>

> Thanks for the interesting discussion. I have been

> an ethical-

> religious vegetarian since I was about 14 years old,

> but I remember

> when I started seriously thinking about

> vegetarianism as a very

> young child...it happened when I watched an uncle

> grilling steaks

> and discovered that the red stuff oozing out of the

> flesh was blood.

> I was never keen on the white stringy stuff in

> chicken either--

> tendons and fascia--yuck. I was a vegan for a while

> in college but

> got so anemic that I started eating eggs again, and

> like you guys, I

> also feel better eating more protein in my old age.

>

> Have you ever read about Peter D'Adamo's Blood Type

> diet? I do not

> follow it because I am Type O, which he says evolved

> from the

> prehistoric hunter-gatherers and who is supposed to

> thrive on meat.

> I do not follow his suggestions because they go

> against my religious

> beliefs against eating meat, but I make sure to

> limit wheat gluten

> and take digestive enzymes, which he says will help

> Type O's feel

> better. I also like chewy meat substitutes like

> baked tofu and

> veggie sausage, which has a texture that appeals to

> my inner hunter-

> gatherer.

>

> Interestingly, according to D'Adamo's theory...which

> is only a

> theory...the Type A-1 and A-2 blood types evolved

> much later than

> Type O's. Type A came out of agrarian cultures, so

> that supposedly,

> A and A-B blood types do better physically with

> diets based on

> grains and carbohydrates. Blood type B evolved after

> O, A and A-B,

> and is more of a balance of both.

>

> Anyway, in the Blood Type diet theory, blood types

> relate to

> different cultures and parts of the world.

>

> Type O is the most common all over the planet, and

> is dominant in

> Amerindians of South and Central America and in the

> southern 2/3 of

> the United States.

>

> Type B is high in Asia, with a maximum in Northern

> India...it is low

> in Europe and Africa and absent among American

> Indians and in most

> Australian Aborigines.

>

> Type A-1 is common all over the world and exists to

> the exclusion of

> type A-2 among the Inuit and Autralian Aborginals,

> and in parts of

> the South Pacific, India, Indonesia, Canada, and the

> northern 1/3 of

> the United States.

>

> So it is interesting that there is a cultural

> prference for

> vegetarianism in India where Type A and B blood

> types predominate,

> and there is a preference for meat in the US where

> Type O

> predominates. My husband is Type A, but of German

> and Scandinavian

> descent, so I imagine that his ancestors came from

> lower Germany

> where Type A blood predominates. Our kids are Type

> O, which I think

> may be related to a dominant gene (that's me).

>

> Das...I imagine that you are Type O like me. Do you

> know?

>

> Love to all,

> Juliana

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