METABOLIC TYPE VIII DIET PLAN
(EXCELLENT METABOLIZER)
Metabolic Type VIII Diet Plan
(Balanced Metabolizer)
CHARACTERISTICS:
This Metabolic Type is a combination of a Metabolic Type IV and Type V.
The person should look at both diets and either pick the one that he/she desires the most or, if it is a toss up, use a combination of both diets.
METABOLIC TYPE IV DIET PLAN
(EXCELLENT METABOLIZER)
CHARACTERISTICS:
Type IV people usually have a genetic background from and around the Mediterranean Sea and do well on the Mediterranean diet.
Typically Spanish, Italian, Greek, Israeli, and Arabic countries
This metabolic type:
1. Burns sugar (carbohydrates) at a moderate rate and uses sugar for energy. You do well with most carbohydrates including carbohydrates that have a mid-range (50-80) glycemic index.
2. Can eat mostly raw vegetables with limited amounts of fruit. Your diet should be rich in salads, fresh uncooked vegetables, and fruits (as desserts) that should make up between 40-50% of you meal.
3. 50-60% of your foods should be derived from the Alkaline Forming Foods Chart and 40-50% from the Acid Forming Foods Chart (See About Your Blood Test manual). You should limit all red animal meats to 2-4 times per week. Use beans, fish, and fowl as other primary sources of protein and nuts, seeds, eggs, and cheeses as your secondary sources of protein.
4. Stress the following foods in your diet:
A. Whole grains, including bread, cereals, pasta, and rice (for carbohydrate and water requirements)
B. Moderate amounts of dairy, such as whole milk, natural cheeses, and eggs (for protein fat and fat-soluble vitamin {D, E, K and A} requirements)
C. Limited amounts of red meat (2-4 times per week) (for protein fat and fat-soluble vitamin {D, E, K and A} requirements)
D. Whitefish (trout, catfish, orange roughy, cod, flounder, scrod), fowl (white meat) (for protein fat and fat-soluble vitamin {D, E, K and A} requirements)
E. All nuts and seeds (for protein fat and fat-soluble vitamin {D, E, K and A} requirements)
F. All beans and legumes- (for protein and carbohydrate requirements)
METABOLIC TYPE V-DIET PLAN
(EXCELLENT METABOLIZER)
CHARACTERISTICS:
Metabolic Type V people can tolerate a wide variety of foods. They are prone to hypoglycemia, so they must stay away from a lot of simple sugars (junk foods) like soda, alcohol (hard liquor), fruit juices, and candy. Metabolic Type V people derive their energy more from fat than from carbohydrates. This Type does well with a lot of red meat (beef, veal, pork, wild game, and lamb) eaten several times a week. It is a true meat and potatoes, man/woman. As far as seafood is concerned, they typically like oily seafood (cold water fish, high omega oils) such as salmon, tuna, sardines, mackerel, and shellfish, with butter. In fact, they like their seafood fried.
THIS METABOLIC TYPE:
1. Burns sugar (carbohydrates) rapidly and inefficiently causing your blood sugar to rise and fall rapidly, giving you spikes of energy followed by bouts of fatigue. You do well with most carbohydrates including carbohydrates that have a mid-range (50-80) glycemic index.
2. Can eat cooked and raw vegetables and fruits. Your diet should be rich in fresh cooked and uncooked vegetables and fruits (as desserts) that should make up between 40-50-% of your meal.
3. 50-60% of your foods should be derived from the Acid Forming Foods Chart and 40-50% from the Alkaline Forming Foods Chart (See About Your Blood Test manual). Use red meats, fowl (dark meat and skin) and oily fish as your primary sources of protein. Use eggs, cheeses, nuts, seeds, and beans as your secondary sources of protein.
4. Stress the following foods in your diet (A-F), because they all contain protein, fat and fat-soluble vitamins (D, E, K, A):
A. Red meats such as beef, veal, lamb, pork and wild game.
B. Oily seafood.
C. Fowl dark meat with the skin.
D. Moderate amounts of dairy such as whole milk, natural
cheeses and eggs.
E. All nuts and seeds.
F. Small amounts of beans and legumes.
G. Small amounts of whole grains, including bread, cereals, pasta and rice (for carbohydrate and water requirements).