Appropriate diet according to the blood type

INTRODUCTION
Blood type is the key that unlocks the door to the mysteries of health, disease, longevity, physical vitality, and emotional strength. Blood type, with its digestive and immune specificity, is a window on a person's probable susceptibility to or power over disease. The mechanics of blood type's influence have to do with the way the genes influence each other, seemingly unrelated genes located immediately adjacent or nearby. This mechanism explains why the blood type can have an impact on such a diverse number of bodily systems - from digestive enzymes to neurochemicals. The gene that determines the blood type of an individual is located on chromosome number 9. Actually, it's not the blood type antigen that is influencing the level of acid in the stomach, but rather the gene for the blood type influencing other seemingly unrelated genes located immediately adjacent (or very close) to the ABO blood type gene that can exert an effect on the stomach acid levels. This phenomenon is called gene linkage. There are four blood types. each with its own genetic ancestry. Blood Group 0 was the first blood type to be identified by our hunter-gatherer ancestors who survived and thrived on a high-protein, meat-based diet, that is the type of diet blood group Os should follow in the 21st century. Next came the emergence of blood type A. By this time, our ancestors hunter-gathering days were over and instead they started

to settle into farming-type communities. The creation of blood type A around this time meant our ancestors did well on a vegetarianbased diet. Blood group As should today follow a vegetarian diet. Blood Type B developed in the area of the Himalayan highlands, now part of present day Pakistan and India. Pushed from the hot, lush savannahs of eastern Africa to the cold highlands of the Himalayan Mountains, Blood type B may have initially mutated in response to climactic changes. They left their farms and started wandering the land, constantly moving from place to place. Consequently, blood group Bs today can get away with eating a varied diet that consists of most foods including meat, dairy, grains and vegetables. Blood type AB is the newest. Type AB resulted from the intermingling of Type A with Type B. Type AB is the only blood type whose existence is the result of intermingling rather than environment. This means that people with blood group AB can eat a mixture of the foods suitable for both blood group A and blood group B. A chemical reaction occurs between your blood and the foods you eat. This reaction is part of your genetic inheritance. This reaction is caused by a factor called Lectins. Lectins, abundant and diverse proteins found in foods, have agglutinating properties that affect your blood. So when you eat a food containing protein lectins that arc incompatible with your blood type antigen, the lectins target an organ or bodily system and begin to agglutinate blood cells in that area. Different lectins target different organs and body system.

MATERIAL AND METHOD

Material required: Blood collection needle, glass rod, disinfection cotton, 75% alcohol, iodine, standard-A serum, standard-B serum, double well slide

Procedure 1. Dropped the standard serum into each well of the double well slide. Labelled the standard-A serum with A on one side and the standard-B serum with B on the other side. Wiped the fingertip and the blood collection needle the with iodine and 75% alcohol and allowed to dry. 2. Punctured into the wiped area with the needle. Took the first drop of blood. Then used one tip of glass rod to collect the blood sample and mixed it with standard-A serum; used the other tip of glass rod to collect another drop of blood and mixed it with standard-B serum. 3. Waited for about 10 minutes. Then observed for any precipitation on the slides.

OBSERVATION TABLE RESULT

ABO typing: If your blood cells stick together when mixed with:

Anti-A serum, you have type A blood Anti-B serum, you have type B blood Both anti-A and anti-B serums, you have type AB blood

If your blood cells do not stick together when anti-A and anti-B are added, you have type O blood.

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