No... we're NOT talking about vampires here. 
The Blood Type diets I'm referring to are from Dr. D’Adamo's best-seller book, Eat Right 4 Your Type. Simply put, his research indicates there are differences in the four blood types, A, B, AB, O each requiring different diets that can reprogram gene responses to lose and maintain weight, repair cells, avoid illness. He suggests eating a diet contoured for your specific blood type.
I was introduced to the 'Blood Type Diet' by a woman (I was dating at the time) who claimed she studied nutrition and herbal medicine extensively. I approached it with an open mind, but she was obsessive to the point I was thinking she was making money from this. I began to distance myself with the belief that 'everything professed in print was totally accurate.' Though the majority of the information was sensible, I began to dispute "If there really was a significance in green, yellow or red peppers that I had to avoid one and not the other."
We all (probably) know there are lists to be had of beneficial foods. I have found many of these 'good foods' to cause allergies in my diet. Peanuts, for example... within a day or two from eating a few ounces of Peanuts, I will break out in acne. So... I don't care who's list they are on, they don't need to be in my diet.
Like most diets, they stress consistency and moderation. In the book, are food lists separated by good, neutral and avoid foods. There are suggested meals and many things of nutritional interest.
Maybe you are interested in the Blood Type Diet?
Here's a link: http://www.dadamo.com/
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eastham
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Jan 23 @ 9:48AM
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Debunking the blood type diet.
As the genome project has discovered, we are all far more alike than dissimilar. Under D'Adamo's theory, I should be a meateating machine, because I have type O blood, yet I'm far more of an omnivore in large part because heart disease runs in my family and I eat to ensure a lower cholesterol rate. If I followed Atkins or D'Adamo, I might be slim, but I'd probably be dead.
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JimNastics
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Jan 23 @ 10:04AM
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There is only one 'diet' that I wholly support and that is from your own back yard.
It is known as The South Beach Diet. It was started by a REAL physician who
was seeking to help his heart patients and got remarkable results.
The book "the South Beach Diet" is as much a history of the diet arena and the diet itself and is actually a good read, even if you (like me) have no interest nor need in dieting at all, but have an interest in nutrition.
Some of the tenents of his philosophy are to cut down on sugars and simple carbohydrates substituting whole grain products for highly processed. In the early stages of the 'diet' to completely eliminate; white bread, white potatoes, white rice, bananas, carrots and products that have sugar or corn syrup added.
That's a simplistic one sentence summary, but his philosophies have sound scientific support and have proven very useful to many.
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SpiritOrnery
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Feb 1 @ 3:12AM
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They upgraded it after it was written because some people are secretors and some are not. Don't ask me what that means, I have no clue. Myself, I believe that people that have severe reactions to food usually have a past life that causes those reactions.
I used to be allergic to dairy til I cleared the energy from a past life where I was kicked by a cow and bled to death internally. No reactions to dairy now unless it is ice cream. Then I have a 'fat' reaction. 
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