Blood Type Diet – Type O

Michael Lam, MD, MPH

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Blood Type Diet – Type O

Michael Lam, MD, MPH

www.DrLam.com

Blood Type Diet – Type B

Michael Lam, MD, MPH

www.DrLam.com

Blood Type Diet – Type AB

Michael Lam, MD, MPH

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Blood Type Diet – Type A

Are you consuming a typical American diet? If so, you may be in danger eating what I call “plastic food.” Listen as I explain what common food ingredients to look out for and avoid and gain an understanding of potentially cancer-causing food preparation methods. To your health!

Warren King - Plastic Food

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How soon is too soon?  Not soon enough. Laboratory tests over the last few years have proven that babies who start drinking soda during that early formative period have a much higher chance of gaining acceptance and “fitting in” during those awkward pre-teen and teen years. So, do yourself a favor. do your child a favor. Start them on a strict regimen of sodas and other sugary carbonated beverages right now, for a lifetime of guaranteed happiness.

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Why we have the youngest customers in the business. This young man is 11 months old-and he isn’t our youngest customer by any means.

For 7-up is so pure, so wholesome, you can even give it to babies and feel good about it. Look at the back of a 7-Up bottle. Notice that all our ingredients are listed (That isn’t required of soft drinks, you know-but we’re proud to do it and we think you’re pleased that we do.)

By the way, Mom, when it comes to toddlers-if they like to be coaxed to drink their milk, try this. Add 7-Up to the milk in equal parts, pouring the 7-Up gently into the milk. It’s a wholesome combination-and it works! Make 7-Up your family drink. You like it…it likes you!

In a series of studies conducted over the course of three years and published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Scripps Florida scientists Paul Johnson and Paul Kenny have shown that rats’ response to unlimited junk food closely parallels well-known patterns of drug addiction — even down to the changes in brain chemistry.

“What we have are these core features of addiction, and these animals are hitting each one of these features,” Kenny said.

In their first study, the researchers fed rats on either a balanced diet or on the same diet plus unlimited access to junk foods purchased at a local supermarket, including processed meats and cakes. Within a short time period, the rats on the junk food diet began to eat compulsively and quickly became overweight.

“They’re taking in twice the amount of calories as the control rats,” Kenny said.

The researchers hypothesized that the rats were eating compulsively because, like drug addicts, they had become desensitized to smaller amounts and needed more and more for the same rush of pleasure.

Many recreational drugs work by directly stimulating the brain’s pleasure centers, particularly the dopamine receptor known as D2. Overstimulation of this receptor causes the body to start producing less dopamine, leading the addict to compensate by taking more of the drug.

Since dopamine can also be released by pleasurable activities such as food or sex, Kenny and Johnson speculated that food addiction could develop in the same way. To test whether the rats had, in fact, become habituated to dopamine, the researchers took the rats from the first experiment and hooked their brains up to a device that would directly stimulate their D2 receptors when they ran on a wheel.

Rats eating a junk food diet ran on the wheel significantly longer than rats fed a normal diet, suggesting that their receptors had indeed become desensitized. This “profound” desensitization occurred after just five days on a junk food diet.

“They’re not experiencing rewards the way they should,” Kenny said. “When you experience that, one way of feeling better is to go back to the junk food.”

“They lose control. This is the hallmark of addiction.”

In another test of their addiction hypothesis, the researchers used a virus to block the D2 receptors in healthy rats. All those rats soon became compulsive eaters.

“This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings,” Johnson said.

Having established that the junk food rats had become addicted, Johnson and Kenny wanted to know how far this addiction would push them. So they took both junk-food addicted rats and rats that had not previously been exposed to such food, and exposed them to electrical shocks whenever they ate junk. Rats that had just been introduced to junk food quickly stopped eating it, while the addicted rats ignored the discomfort and kept eating.

Perhaps the most shocking finding came when the researchers took away the addicted rats’ access to junk food and started feeding them only healthy rat chow again — the same diets the rats had eaten as pups. When junk food was no longer available, the rats simply refused to eat for two weeks.

“They actually voluntarily starved themselves,” Kenny said.

“It’s almost as if you break these things, it’s very, very hard to go back to the way things were before. Their dietary preferences are dramatically shifted.”

The research strongly suggests that many modern humans also suffer from junk food addictions. Kenny notes, however, that unlike the rats, all humans with access to junk food do not become obese. He attributes this difference to the influence of health knowledge and social pressure in moderating people’s natural eating habits.

“The rats don’t suffer from the same social pressures that we do,” he said.

The idea of junk food addiction is not a new one, and the dopamine-junk food connection was actually put forward by former FDA Commissioner David Kessler in his best-selling book, The End of Overeating.

“Certainly, we see this addictive pattern in humans,” nutritionist Sandy Livingston said. “They know they shouldn’t overeat, but they do it anyway.”

Livingston expressed hope that better knowledge about the biochemical side of food addiction might result in lessened guilt and judgment surrounding obesity.

“A lot of people blame themselves — ‘Why don’t I have any willpower?’” she said.

“Food can be highly addictive,” said author and nutritional supplement producer Jordan Rubin. “When people describe overeating and weight loss as a battle, this is why.”

He called for more research into which individual components of junk food, such as MSG, might be behind its addictive effects.

Obesity researcher Ralph DiLeone of Yale University noted that more research is needed into the long-term effects of such addiction, even if an animal later switches its diet and loses weight.

“They might be a normal weight, but how they respond to food in the future may be permanently altered,” he said.

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     As it has been at least 10 years since I have done a fast or cleanse of more

than 3 days I decided that it was time. During a fast or cleanse, the organs

don’t have work on processing food and can instead clean out their storage

of toxins. There is also spiritual reasons to fast, when we stop taking in

nutrition on the physical, we start absorbing energy from the spiritual

levels, and a high spiritual consciousness is attained.

     For the first two days I juiced pineapple and diluted the juice half with

purified water and ate fresh pineapple. I drank water as well. At the end

of the second day the pineapple started to slightly irritate my mouth. There

was only a little hunger that the juice and fruit would mostly assuage.

Days 3 began with 2 cups of water with the juice of one lemon and 1/4 tsp of

sea salt. Days 3 and 4 I only drank orange juice diluted half with water and

ate 3-5 oranges a day. On the night of day 5, I blended 1/3 cup of olive

oil with 12 ounces of orange juice. This was much more palatable to drinking

the olive oil straight which I had once done, and which made me avoid all

olive oil for years afterwards! The olive oil is supposed to contract and

cleanse the gallbladder. Many report myriads of small green stones coming

into the toilet the day after doing this, this happened to me last time, but

not now.

     My consciousness was definitely lifting. I noticed nature as being totally

alive, I could sense all the trees in the neighborhood at once and felt

their suchness or beingness without all the mental chatter that usually

blocks direct perception of reality.

     Day 5 was the most difficult as I just fasted on water and had some hunger

and mostly just rested.

     Days 6 and 7 was just on apple juice diluted half with water and eating

apples, grapes and pears. I also had 1/2 cup of pomegranate juice on most

days of the cleanse.

     Days 8 and 9 were on fresh made carrot juice. I also ate apples and pears.

To the carrot juice I added fresh parsley and the juice of chinese and savoy

cabbage from my garden. After reading books on the lives of stars, I

meditated more deeply than I can remember. I felt the mind of God

penetrating all the galaxies of the universe and felt they were all floating

within me and I within them.

     On day 10 I added steamed greens (chinese cabbage, bok choy and 3 types of

kale) from the garden along with some homemade fermented vegetables. Lunch

was greens in miso soup. In the evening I had some homegrown lettuce, celery

and leeks with olive oil and apple cider vinegar.

     I think everyone could use some sort of fast or cleanse. Short ones every

year and longer ones every few years. I feel that breast cancer and prostate

cancer could be prevented with a 10 day cleanse like this one every year.

During this cleanse I also took herbs and homeopathics that open the kidney,

liver, intestines and lymph to detoxify.

     If you ever feel an inner prompting to do a cleanse or fast I would be glad

to make a custom made plan just for your body.