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type o may beat covid, measuring panic & hand sanitizer in beer bottles

well, type o is back in the news. a recent study — alth...

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years ago, blood type grabbed hold of the 2022年世界杯名单猜测 spotlight in 1996 with the help of dr. peter d’adamo, who made popular the idea that a lifestyle based on blood type was a way to achieve overall health and reduce the risk of developing certain diseases. he even wrote a book about it.

according to d’adamo , people with type o blood do best with intense physical exercise and animal proteins, and less well on dairy products and grains. type a people are naturally suited to a vegetarian diet and foods that are fresh, pure, and organic, he says, along with exercise that is centering and calming, like yoga and tai chi. type b’s have “a robust immune system and a tolerant digestive system and tend to resist many of the severe chronic degenerative illnesses, or at least survive them better than the other blood types.” d’adamo says this group does best with moderate physical exercise “requiring mental balance, such as hiking, cycling, tennis, and swimming.” and finally, the blood type ab, is an amalgam of types a and b, a group that benefits from a combination of the exercises for types a and b.

since the publishing of his book — which sold more than seven copies — a series of studies have shown that using blood type to make decisions on how you live and eat doesn’t have specific benefits, taking the importance of blood type mantra out of the limelight. in fact, the most that many of us may know about blood types these days is the importance of type o since it’s the most common blood type —39 per cent of canadians are type o — and therefore is the one we hear most requested for by canadian blood services.

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well, type o is back in the news. a recent study — although not peer-reviewed — has suggested that people with type o are less likely to test positive for covid-19, while those with type a are at a greater risk of virus-related respiratory failure.
 
lisa machado
lisa machado

lisa machado began her journalism career as a financial reporter with investor's digest and then rogers media. after a few years editing and writing for a financial magazine, she tried her hand at custom publishing and then left to launch a canadian women's magazine with a colleague. after being diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, lisa founded the canadian cml network and shifted her focus to healthcare advocacy and education.

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