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[crazylegsmurphy]

Hey All,

What do you make of this statement made on my friends Facebook?

I have been doing some research. It would seem that the foods that are "right" for her blood type are "wrong" for her dosha. How delightfully entertaining.

[Nacreous]

Hey All,

What do you make of this statement made on my friends Facebook?

I have been doing some research. It would seem that the foods that are "right" for her blood type are "wrong" for her dosha. How delightfully entertaining.

What would I make of it?

"WTF is a dosha?"

Isn't life complex enough without piling phoney complexity on top of it?

[stands2reason]

Too lazy to do any research, but I'm pretty sure this idea that the different kinds of antigens in your blood (on your red blood cells?) can be differentially affected by diet has been debunked.

[crazylegsmurphy]

http://www.whatsyourdosha.com/article-digestion.html

[whitedevilbrewing]

Pre-scientific superstitious nonsense.  And you can quote me.  Feel free.

[crazylegsmurphy]

I fully agree, yet I don't think that "evidence" is going to win any arguments!

[wolpertinger]

Ask them what is recommended if you have the Bombay type 

[JoelWhy]

Your friend sounds like a dosha bag.

(Now, where'd I put that rimshot button...)

Edit:  Well, I couldn't find my rimshot button, but this'll do in a pinch:

Click the button

[stands2reason]

Your friend sounds like a dosha bag.

(Now, where'd I put that rimshot button...)

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[Rider]

I can swear they covered this ont he pod cast at some point.  Apparently it's a huge thing in Japan to base everything on your blood type.

[JoelWhy]

I can swear they covered this ont he pod cast at some point.  Apparently it's a huge thing in Japan to base everything on your blood type.

Yea, they did.  And, I work with a number of Japanese women who confirmed this is big in Japan (basing personalities on blood type.)

[Ah.hell]

I have a couple of friends at work who were into both the Blood type diet and the Aryuveda(dosha) bodytype diets.  I thing they've both given up on them. 

The Blood Type diet is basically psuedo-scientific BS based on the notion that humans developed the ABO blood types as a result of exposure to different foods. O = hunter gathers, plenty of meat.  A = farmers, grains and what not.  B = nomads, dairy. 

The Dosha is a body type in aryuvedic (traditional indian) medicine, the ones who prescribe heavy metals to Balance your energy.  Its alot like the notion of QI but there are 3 different types instead of two.  Based on your shape, you apparently have differing amounts of the 3 energies and different foods bring them into balance.  Prescientific magic instead of psuedo-science.

http://www.whatsyourdosha.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_diet

[JoelWhy]

  Prescientific magic instead of psuedo-science.

lol...I like how you distinguish between the two.