[bmgb]

I did a lot of reading on the blood type diet when my dad started on it this past year. It's really not based on any solid research. My dad says he eats meat now, after being vegetarian since 1969. I'm not sure if I believe him, though. (It's difficult to digest meat if your body isn't used to it.)

What really makes me angry is he got my aunt on the diet, and she's already had an angioplasty a few years back (she's in her 40s). Now she thinks, I can eat lots of beef! It's good for me! All I can say is, I hope she's watching her cholesterol.

We're all type O in my family. On my father's side, my grandfather died before 50 of a heart attack (before I was born), my uncle died of a stroke at age 47. I wouldn't blame it all on diet, but I don't think it helped any.

On my mother's side, my grandmother died at age 44 of a heart attack (way before I was born, when my mother was 10 years old). A couple of my aunts on my mother's side are into the Zone or Atkins diet now (similar to the Type O diet). They are losing some weight on these diets because they are restricting their food intake (just like any fad diet out there).