It's been one hell of a busy and exciting week for me, and I finally decided to write today basically because I resonate with the Hive Learners prompt, as it brought back memories from my younger years.
You see, there was a time that a book based on our blood group and lifestyle trended. This book still available today is called Eat Right for Your Type. From the book, my parents, especially my mom, discovered that she was allergic to most of her staples, and suddenly her constant battle with health challenges made sense.
Being young then never stopped me from exploring. I was a teenager who was very much interested in lifestyle, so I also took a reading of the book whilst my parents were away for work. In fact, it was during these times that I discovered that the major meal that would give my blood group the required nutrients to function at optimal speed is protein. I won’t say I was a lover of protein, but you see, that book started making me crave meat more than before.
The theory behind eating right for your type is that each blood group has a specific nutrient or food type that is naturally designed for it. For those of us that are O positive, our blood group is considered the original of all blood groups. Scientifically it was stated that the early men were O+ and, given that plant cultivation wasn’t a thing back then, they were meat eaters.
Thus, the O+ blood group mutated to bind its energy source to protein. So as an O+ to function optimally, we need to consume more protein (meat) than any other class of food. Little wonder why I always feel inadequate having a meal without meat.
Recently I have dedicated a larger budget to meat and fish when preparing a meal. Aside from the fact that it is palatable to my taste bud, it also feels as if I discovered that having a meal Without meat, it is not as satisfying nor filling, and it's me getting hungry in the next few hours.
My current meal ratio is more meat and less anything else; one meal packed with enough meat would carry me for a day unlike meals with little or no meat. Given my obsession, or should I say interest, in meat and its likes, I really would take a jail term rather than live the rest of my life without eating meat.
Yes, it’s that serious, and this is why I have made peace with myself that I can never become a vegetarian, as no plant-based protein can ever replace meat for me. My own situation is even worse, such that there is no substitute when it comes to animal protein.
Through consumption I have a bit of every animal protein in my meal. Fish, beef, turkey, chicken, mutton, periwinkle, oyster, eggs, snail, crab, prawn—you name it, depending on the delicacy. I cannot say because if I have fish in my meal, then I don’t need beef, or I would have eggs in place of all fish and meat. No, I can’t feed that way. But if I’m to have a meal, given what is available, I would rather make do with just beef or any well-seasoned poultry meat, mutton and it’s likes than fish or eggs.
