Blood type diet, portion sizes, and emotional eating

Frederic asks how accurate the blood type model is, given that combining its restrictions with his other food sensitivities leaves him little to eat.

The Wonders call it fairly accurate but with gray areas - a guideline, not a bible, to be tailored to the individual, since the body may enjoy foods the model says to avoid.

As a type A he is described as a grazer: small portions many times a day rather than large meals, roughly what fits in the cupped palm each hour.

Heavy meats should be avoided; a vegetarian diet including cheese and eggs (not vegan) would be excellent for him, with fish no more than once every six months if he went that route - though this is offered as what a vegetarian choice would look like, not a directive.

As a ratio guide, protein should fill the center of the palm and complex carbohydrates the outer part, palm only, not fingers.

Soy is acceptable in moderation alongside other legumes such as lentils and beans, but not as a wholesale meat substitute.

On marine phytoplankton they say it has some benefit but such supplements are mainly needed to offset an unbalanced diet; eating properly is better.

They note most eating is emotional, fraternal and social rather than nourishment, and advise that while eating one should relax and concentrate on the food without reading, television, computer or conversation, saving conversation for afterward.

Frederic links his oscillation between healthier and less healthy behavior to the material on the methodology of dying and admits he can see himself slowly self-destructing; the Wonders reply that now he knows, he has a choice, that honesty with himself lets his mind move with him, and that conscious living means catching the mind's rebellion early.