Guest guest Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Lynne, It might help you and your boyfriend to consider the possibility that the answer isn't an absolute " Pass " on one diet or the other--only what works for the individual. One interesting approach to this individual consideration is Dr. Peter D'adamo's work in the Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type book. There are others as well--such as the Metabolic Typing book. The important thing is to look into, and perhaps try, more than one approach, paying attention to the signals from your own body and then making this oh-so-crucial decision for yourself. Good luck to you. Claire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 I've recently joined gettingwell and find it a wonderful source of information. I've recently run into a conflict about diet and would like some advice. My boyfriend is a vegetarian and is very involved in animal rights. He knows I've been on a paleodiet and I thought he accepted that, but when we recently started living together he got upset about it and is pressuring me to eat vegetarian foods, especially at home. He's convinced that the Neil Barnard low fat vegetarian diet is the most healthy. I sent him to some paleodiet sites, but he's extremely bright and found all sorts of logical inconsistencies in the arguments. Unfortunately, he sees the inconsistencies only in my diet and not his own. As I'm in the high risk category with respect to breast cancer and also have macular degeneration, I have to be extremely careful of what I eat. I'm also menopausal and put on weight easily (after a few days of eating pasta with him, I started gaining weight rapidly, any I can't afford to do that.). So I'm very worried about adopting a low fat vegetarian diet. I'd be grateful about any advice and views about this. Also, since my boyfriend is so scientific and logical (when it suits him to be), I'd appreciate any references to major scientific studies backing up my need to eat differently from him. Of course, I may be wrong about eating a paleodiet, and would welcome views on that too. Thanks so much, Lynne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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