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Vegetables and fruits are similar in their nutrient content. They are our best source of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and antioxidants. Fruits generally have a higher sugar content than vegetables. However, this comes in the form of fructose, which raises blood sugar levels much less rapidly than sucrose – the sugar found in table sugar and refined carbohydrates such as white flour. This is an important difference. Fruit can help maintain balanced energy levels, while refined sugars can make them fluctuate wildly.

If you wish to lose weight eat a piece of fruit 30 minutes before your meals. This practice has been shown to moderate appetite and encourage weight loss.

Not all fruits are good for you. Oranges are too acidic for your sensitive stomach – many of my type A patients have noticed this on their own. You should also avoid tropical fruits such as bananas, guavas, mangoes, coconuts and papayas.

Marie

Blood Type A

Age 58

The blood type diet appealed to me on an intellectual level. I realised that since childhood I had a very strong attraction and appetite for foods that I should be eating. I was happy to see this is actually being confirmed by a scientific approach to foods. I always had a repulsion for red meat.

If I go off the diet I immediately feel digestive and physical heaviness, abdominal and general bloatedness and it takes my body several days to eliminate the offending food. In the past I would go to seminars on personal development where the food that was served was vegetarian with plenty of wheat in its various forms. Invariably I would return home having put on 3kg. Now I know why.