welcome Mary in WI; was: New on list

[Guest guest]

Warm welcome to the group. i am PT and live

in southern Oregon. i am a lacto-ovo vegetarian.

i don't know why a doctor would tell you that

you have the wrong blood type to be vegetarian.

That seems quite odd.... but then i am not a doctor.

i do know that many people on our list ave gotten

bad nutritional advice from their regular physicians

in the past, simply because many general practitioners

do not study nutrition extensively and thus are going

from preconceived misconceptions of what a vegetarian

diet consists of.

But that said, you did mention you have some health

issues. i would be the last person to tell you to ignore

a physician's advice in that regard. However, you

may wish to consult a dietician, or a nutritional

specialist for the best advice. Here are very few

physical conditions that would not benefit from a

healthy vegetarian diet.

 

~ pt ~

 

Weather Lore

If there's ice in November to bear a duck

There'll be nothing after but sludge and muck.

~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~> , " Agney

Grace " <mrfrank@u...> wrote:

>

> I'm new on the list. I'm a 30-year vegetarian (come Jan. 2006). I'm an

> animal freak, having had many cat and dog friends over the years. They

> are my family! I signed up on the list because I'm sick of doctors

> telling me I have the wrong body or blood type to be a vegetarian. I'm

> middle aged, and have some health issues, but so do many middle-aged

> meat-eaters. I'm interested in whatever research might be out there

> into health problems and vegetarianism.

> I live in Milwaukee, WI.

> Mary (aka MRF)

[Guest guest]

I have chemical sensitivity problems, though I'm much better after years

of treatment and avoidance. My environmental illness doctor wants me to

follow a strict " Zone " diet, but I found it very repressive, since the

only way to follow it is to give up all grains and then eat a bunch of

dairy/eggs. I had been almost vegan for many years (only eating

dairy/eggs when out or at other folks houses). Then I tried to do the

Zone and got back into eating lots of dairy and eggs, with next to no

grains. The Zone requires you to eat only about 27 grams of carbs per

meal, which pretty much means no grains unless you want to eat only a

tablespoon or so. I think the daily/eggs I've been eating for several

years have been affecting my gall bladder. I may have a gall bladder

problem, though I'm not sure about that. I came down with shingles in

Sept. at the exact same time I started having gall bladder pain. My

primary wanted me to have gall bladder surgery. I said no, and am doing

gall bladder flushes to see if they help. I think it's mighty peculiar

that I had shingles on the same side of my torso at the same time as the

supposed gall bladder attack. In any case, if I do have gall bladder

problems, I think my attempts to eat a Zone diet contributed and I'm now

backing off the dairy/eggs and moving back towards veganism.

 

My chiropractor also thinks I have the wrong body type and blood type

for being vegetarian. I have type O positive, which is the most

prevalent type. Supposedly type O's are supposed to be carnivores for

optimum health. However, I don't buy into this stuff because I know

that I felt good eating lots of grains, even though I was fatter than I

am now. I think the problem is that I eat too much, not that the grains

are bad for me. I listen to my own counsel, though. My EI doc thinks I

should eat meat. But I won't do that. Even if it did affect my health,

which I don't believe is true. But it's tiresome to have these people

bugging me about this. They can't/won't convince me to eat meat, but I

still get tired hearing that I should.

 

mrf

 

 

~ PT ~ wrote:

 

> Warm welcome to the group. i am PT and live

> in southern Oregon. i am a lacto-ovo vegetarian.

> i don't know why a doctor would tell you that

> you have the wrong blood type to be vegetarian.

>