Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer and Achieving Your Ideal Weight

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Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer and Achieving Your Ideal Weight by Peter J. D'Adamo

Dr. D'Adamo has spent the past fifteen years researching the connections among blood type, food, and disease, and his research is built on thirty years of work done by his father. Now Dr. D'Adamo offers a total resource for health, an individualized plan that's right for your blood type. In Eat Right 4 Your Type he shows which foods, spices, teas, and condiments help someone of your blood type maintain optimal health and ideal weight; which vitamins and supplements to emphasize or avoid; which medications function best in your system; whether your stress goes to your muscles or your nervous system; whether your stress is relieved better through aerobics or meditation; whether you should walk, swim or play tennis or golf as your mode of exercise; how knowing your blood type can help you avoid many common viruses and infections; how knowing your blood type can help you fight back against life-threatening diseases; and how to slow down the aging process by avoiding factors specific to your blood type that cause rapid cell deterioration.

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Posted on September 22, 2008 10:44 AM PDT
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Waste of time.
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Thankfully I didn't pay for this book, it was lent to me to read by a family friend who was sure all my digestive problems were because I wasn't eating right for my blood type. I'd never heard of this dieting system before reading this book, and honestly I was baffled by reading it - it gives the sense that the author really didn't do actual, scientific research before writing this book. As an example, I'm a blood type A. According to this book, that means I should be eating basically a vegetarian diet, and especially no red meats. The book doesn't seem to take into account the different food allergies and other ailments a person might have; in my case I have Crohn's disease and IBS, so eating a vegetarian diet is quite out of the question. Additionally I have a neurological disease that destroys my body's proteins, so I really HAVE to eat a diet that's high in meat and protein (totally the opposite of what the book says I need to do). However, even when taking the book and comparing it to other family members blood types out of amusement, the diet guidelines seemed to be way off as a whole, so it wasn't just me. In conclusion, this book truly is a lot of hype and a waste of money in my opinion. It doesn't seem to have any research done to prove, or back up, its information.

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Posted on September 20, 2008 5:29 PM PDT
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Hype or fact?
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I personally thought let "Eat Right For Your "Blood Type" was a lot of hype. It did not seem to have significant scientific evidence in my opinion to back up the authors claims. The author believes that negative reactions between food lectins and our blood are responsible for many ailments. The author gives a list of foods for our blood type that we should avoid to rid ourselves of these ailments.

I thought a diet plan that leaves out many of your favorite food because they are supposedly not right for your blood type doesn't seem very sustainable in the long run in my personal opinion. It seems very rigorous and overly strict.
However on a positive not it encourages healthy whole food and I didn't see sugar or processed junk food suggested to any blood type.

My blood type is one that is supposed to do well with dairy products and I am lactose intolerant. That doesn't sit well with me believing the blood type theory since type b supposedly does well with dairy.

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Posted on September 6, 2008 10:36 AM PDT
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Interesting, but not enough to follow it
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My doctor and chiropractor both believe that a person should eat right for their blood type, so they both recommended that I should read this book. I agree with some of the things in the book, but a lot of it doesn't sound like something a normal person could stick to for the rest of their lives. In all honesty, it doesn't sound like the diet is going to taste good for very long.

I found out i am a type A blood type, which are not supposed to eat many animal products due to heart disease/cancer risks associated with the blood type. Interestingly enough my family are all type A's and those things are prominent in the family health history. However there was insufficient scientific evidence in the book to back up this claim. As far as I can tell, this is just a coincidence, and my blood type has nothing to do with it. It is definitely interesting to read, but it seemed like a lot of hype without much evidence to support it. I don't recommend this book.