Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight by Peter J. D'Adamo Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight
Book Review: Scientific, Common-Sense, Flexible, Easy to Use
Summary: 5 Stars
I was interested in this book immediately upon reading the title. After having worked in a hospital blood lab, the vital importance of not mixing blood types for patients was impressed on me by all of the technicians working in the blood bank. Even the regular guy or gal on the street has watched enough medical or news shows on TV to realize the importance of correct blood typing. You can die if it gets mixed up.What this book showed me was that a similiar, although at a much lower level, effect can happen from eating foods that have blood type antigens to your blood type.
It's the accumulation of these antigens over time which, to me at least, is frightening. After all, there is only so much room in the body for storage of sludge that cannot be moved, and if you are already ill, or immune suppressed, I can only assume that this process of acuumulation would happen faster.
Therefore, it makes perfect sense to me not to put into my body that which will glue it up and eventually cause more problems than it is worth to eat as I did before this book.
Besides, I have watched my body lose weight and tone up, and I am not even trying! I am a very inactive person. I hate exercise with a passion! Yet it is still happening. And I don't have the stomach and intestine problems that I have experienced since I was 14 years old.
The really great thing is that the author tells you what you can eat, but does not say "you must eat." Therefore, lactose intolerant indivuals, for instance, can eat eggs or fermented dairy (such as yogurt, in which the milk sugar has changed into a digestible form)
It is scientific, common sense, flexible and easy to use. Simply don't buy or use foods on the avoid list and you are in business.
Book Review: Buy The Book! Eat The Right Food! Be Healthy!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book WORKS! In the first week all of my immune related problems (Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue and Insomnia, budding Psoriasis, Depression and Mood Swings) were mitigated to the point that I actually felt like normal people must! To me it felt like being high, it was so good.I have been following the "Paleolithic Diet" and"Native Nutrition" lines of research for over a decade now. But how do you eat the food of your ancestors if you're an American Mutt? Live on Oatmeal, Kelp, and raw Buffalo? Dr. D'Adamo's book brings it all into perspective. I am a Type O and most of the foods on his "Good" list for my type are the things I crave. Conversely, most of the things on his "Avoid" list for my type are the things I'll eat if you hold a gun to my head! My appetite at least agrees with him! I am on my third week and my family is about ready to give up and join me. You can't argue with visible success.
The good Dr. also maintains a very helpful website where you can get a lot of information - but you really need the book to get the details.
Book Review: This is NOTa fad diet. Be objective when you read this book
Summary: 5 Stars
I am over 50, female and my doctor says I am healthy. Then why did I feel so lousy for so long? Headaches, contiuous weight gain, no energy, listless? I read this book and have been eating according to my blood type for about 9 mos. I have never felt better and lost about 30 lbs without even trying. The medical world of doctors have a lot to learn about nutrition. We are NOT all the same and should not all be on low fat, high carbo diets. Fat and protein are best for me and without this book, I would never have seen the light!. I am very grateful to Peter D'Adamo. My health is perfect! no high blood pressure, etc. My own doctor now believes there is some truth to blood type and health.Book Review: His critics won't take the time to understand its depth
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read a lot of reviews of this book and almost all of them just fall back on the "well, if it worked, we'd of known about it by now" -wrong! This guy pulled up a lot of very obscure scientific references to prove a basic point: You don't have a blood type just to complicate getting a transfusion! If only the pundits would LOOK at the amount of material he uses to prove his point, no one would dispute the findings. For the rest of us, we just go on intuition: Something about the premise of the theory just makes sense. Wonderfully written. My wife (type O) has followed the basic program for 8 weeks and has had a total remission in her psoriasis, something 4 years of prednisone and 10 years of vegetarianism did nothing for.Book Review: Great Read!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book! Finally, a "diet" book that truly is about health and eating and not about depriving oneself and forcing oneself to fit into an eating plan that doesn't fit. I have been dealing with having ovarian cancer for over two years, and eating the foods Dr. D'Adamo recommends for my blood type ("O"), is making me feel much better. Although the Type O diet is not the current wisdom for cancer patients, the proof is in the pudding, so to speak. While I'm not claiming that this will cure my cancer by any means, anything that will help me to feel better is great. Also, for Type Os, the Low Carb Cookbook, available through Amazon, has great recipes for us.