50 Delicious Original Italian Recipes for Blood Type A

By Claudia Valsecchi

This book includes original and tasty recipes that have the good flavors of Italian cuisine. The recipes also follow the principles of the “blood type diet:” choosing foods appropriate to your blood type. The theory that each blood type should eat certain types of foods is based on Doctor Peter J. D’Adamo’s well known discoveries, which proved that following a few rules about how to eat can help improve or maintain your health.

This book will make everything easier. It is the first in the Musical Fork Collection and presents 50 delicious but easy-to-make recipes for Blood Type A, almost all of them also adaptable to types 0, B and AB You will find delicious recipes not only for you but also for your family and friends!

Following some simple advice and tips will make it easy to eat right and improve your health! In a short while your body will thank you for its new-found wellbeing!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Youcanprint
• Release date: May 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9788891143662

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INTRODUCTION

My Recipes for Blood Type A

This is cookbook, not a diet book. Nevertheless, in deciding which foods to include, we looked to the dietary plans that naturopathic Doctor Peter J. D’Adamo presented in his books Eat Right 4 Your Type and Live Right 4 Your Type. These books propose the theory that certain foods benefit, nourish or harm us according to the blood type that we are born with. I have followed Dr. D’Adamo’s suggestions and my health has greatly improved. I hope the same will happen to you.

The recipes in this book are for Blood Type A, the most delicate of all the blood types. Thus, when choosing the foods to include, we gave preference to those that are most suited for Blood Type A, followed by those that are considered neutral. We avoided those that are considered harmful. By using spices (something that I have learned during my travels to the Middle East and during meals with friends from that part of the world), I have created tasty and appetizing dishes, some of which are true delicacies.

The dishes in this book are light and very digestible. But they are also quite sumptuous so that even this Blood Type – prohibited from eating many tasty things -- can enjoy appetizing and satisfying meals.

All of the recipes are original creations. Many friends have seen their health improve greatly after eating these dishes. For this reason, I have decided to share these recipes with you in this little book. I will soon publish cookbooks dedicated to the other Blood Types; all will be part of the series entitled The Musical Fork.

Enjoy your meal!

Claudia Valsecchi

THE 4 BLOOD TYPES

Each of the four blood types has its own characteristics and is the result of approximately 40,000 years of human beings’ evolutionary development and their adaptation to conditions that little by little, have determined these blood types.

O is the oldest blood type. It goes back to the origins of the species, when man hunted and gathered wild fruit. Blood type A appeared many years later, when man had settled and started farming and eating the crops that he grew. Blood type B appeared after that, when humans began raising livestock, while blood type AB, the most recent, resulted from an additional evolutionary process when different peoples began to live together in a stable manner due to an increase in travel and occupations of foreign lands.

We can define the blood types as a sort of biological fingerprint, as each blood type has different plasma antibodies than the other types. For this reason, blood transfusions are incompatible between people with different blood types.

Blood types and diet

Back in the 1950s, an American medical doctor, James D’Adamo, had speculated about the relationship between blood types, diet and illness. However, it was his son, Peter D’Adamo, a naturopathic doctor, who conducted a series of experiments in the 1980s that allowed him to formalize his father’s theory and identify the categories of foods that are beneficial or harmful for each blood type. Today, many people, as well as many medical doctors, therapeutically follow and apply his theory.

Diet connected to your blood type is not a diet in the true sense of the word. Instead, it is a way of eating. You don’t have to weigh the food or count calories, even if your goal is to lose weight, since each and every improvement -- including losing weight -- results from eating in a way that is suited to your blood type.

Diet according to your blood type is based on categorizing foods into beneficial foods, which facilitate the physiological processes of the body; neutral foods, which interfere neither positively nor negatively with the body; and harmful foods, which can harm the body.

BLOOD TYPE A

Called the peasant’s blood type, blood type A appeared about 20,000 years ago. Perhaps it was because game was scarse, or because of a natural evolutionary push, but during that period, certain human tribes learned how to cultivate the land and thus enrichened their diet with vegetables. It was an important evolutionary step that also required a psychological adaptation that occurred with a mutation of the characteristics of blood. As a result, a new blood type was created: blood type A. This blood type is characterized by the presence of the A antigene on the membranes of red blood cells.

Hereditarily, this blood type poorly tolerates animal proteins and has an immune system that is resistant to