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Summary: This book changed my life!
Review: After years of increasing problems with allergies, brain fog, and depression, this book provided me with a way to take control of my health through changing my diet. It is easy and interesting to read, a fun combination of scientific research, the author's personal experience as a naturopathic physician, and fascinating hypotheses about why this works. I have recommended it to all of my friends and even own a second copy which I loan to people all the time. Read it, try the diet for a month and become a believer!
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Summary: Massive Ignorance = Unreliable Conclusions
Review: I thought about buying this book over a year ago when it first came out. I was in medical school at the time, and was and still am very alternative medicine oriented. Before I bought it I had a chance to read it in a health food store. On the surface it made some sense, but after reading approximately 40 pages of this book I was HORRIFIED to see the ignorance of the author. I had previously had great respect for Naturopathic doctors, but if they let people graduate with the kind of ignorance shown in this book it is a very sad statement for their schooling. Specifically in one place he is talking about the structure of foods and refers to either all amino acids or one particular amino acid (the small break down units of proteins) as being a kind of fat !! This is not a minor error ! ! Anyone who's had basic biochemistry or less training knows this is a gross error! I kept reading thinking maybe it was a typo, but he repeated his error again, and then several pages later made another MAJOR error in science. This left me with a very bad feeling about his training, his knowledge, and even serious questions about Naturopathic medicine as a whole that someone so ignorant could graduate from their schools. If he doesn't know basic science, how do we trust anything else he arrives at as conclusions from his inaccurate starting base?????
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Summary: Don't call it a DIET book
Review: Look, the instant you mention that word you get a picture of the 10,000 other D*** books that have failed.This book is about food selection that makes you feel better. If I eat Corn-Peanuts-Chicken-Ham-pork all of which I love I get an upset stomach.I will be up at 2:00AM in the morning burping and feeling slight pain in the stomach. Pizza!!Forget it. The wheat gluten and tomato will have me unhappy 2hrs later. I figure if these foods that a B blood Type are supposed to avoid effect my stomach this way what are they doing in subtle ways to the rest of my body.What do I do? Instead of allowing 50-60-70% of my D*** to consist of foods that give me problems I try to make 80-90% of my D*** consist of the foods listed as Highly Beneficial and Neutral.Don't be a finatic. Little by little add foods until your percentages go up.Don't try to change over nite.That's what those other books tell you to do and that is a recipe of failure. I eat a peanut and a kernel of corn once in a while (ha-Ha) and I don't consider it a failure.When I eat, following this selection guide, I FEEL GOOD!!PERIOD
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Summary: Voodoo medicine
Review: Another semi-scientist playing to the public's insecurities about health and self-image. Falsities and mis-interpretations begin in the first chapter with anthropological mis-interpretations and mis-understandings. You understand why when you go to his bibliography and see that the genetics and anthropology books he referenced were written in the first half of the twentieth century. This is pre-DNA folks. It gets no better. But what is most disturbing is that my 14 year old daughter requested the book as a Christmas gift. Foolishly, I ordered it. Not so foolishly I read it (not all I must admit). She will receive it as a gift, and hopefully as a lesson in poor science and publishing greed.
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Summary: Raves for Eat Right for Your Type
Review: I can not say enough in praise for the information provided in Eat Right 4 Your Type as it relates to how food affects each blood type. I started following Dr. D'Adamo's recommendations for health reasons. In just 4 months I am seeing about 90% - 100% reduction in health problems (fibromyalgia, edema, bloating, white hair returning to dark, birthmark disappearing, painful joints, etc) and have lost over 30 lbs. This is all with no sense of "dieting" or self-deprivation. It is very simple, just avoid the foods that are harmful and focus on the foods that are highlly beneficial for my type.The first 3 chapters contain easily understood nutritional information and explanation of how avoid foods affect our bodies. That's all I needed to read to see for myself the benefits of incorporating Dr. D'Adamo's recommendations into my way of living.
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Summary: A lot to think about!
Review: This book offers a great deal of insight into the practical theory that we are NOT all alike. We have all seen diets that work for some and not for others and individuals who have found relief by eliminating a certain something from their diets. Finally there is an explanation that makes sense from a laypersons point of view. If we are what we eat shouldn't a balanced diet be sufficient? No! Not if your body is so busy fighting off antigens your blood produces in response to certain substances. I enjoyed this book and look forward to spending the next two weeks trying the diet described for my type. I even recommended it to my Mother, who has recurrent, inexplicable, health problems. Here's to an easy way to feel better!
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Summary: Now it makes sense!!!!!
Review: I just recently bought the book. And I have read it cover to cover a few times. I am a major skeptic when it comes to most "new" things or ideas. I have to research everything to death.......thank goodness for the internet....lol I myself am a type O. And I have very high triglyceride levels, and that is after I have tried to be a vegan vegetarian!!! My doctor kept telling me that alot of carbohydrates wouldnt help me, but would I listen??..NO..lol Now that I have read the book I see why. I have read other reviews here and on other message boards that seem to have totally misquoted the authors claims or information. One major misquote was saying that the author said that our bodies produce iodine...I read that page and here is the exact excerpt....."A third factor in Type O weight gain is related to thyroid regulation. Type O's have a tendency to have low levels of thyroid hormone. This condition, called hypothyroidism, occurs because Type O's often exhibit insufficient levels of iodine - a chemical element whose sole purpose is thyroid hormone production. The symptoms of hypothyroidism include weight gain, fluid retention, muscle loss, and fatigue." As you can see it does not mention anything about the body making iodine. So just dont take my word for it or anyone elses. Read the book for yourself and make your own judements.
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Summary: On ER4YT for almost two years and still going strong.
Review: In Jan 1999 after having digestive problems for several years I decided I would go to health centre. During my second visit the ERFYT book was adised to me and I'm still following it!! It was the best thing that happened to my health. I never followed any other diet before because I believed they were too faddish. The A-type adjustment was really difficult due to availablitity of food, food addictions, fast foods, on-going comments from friends and nonavailable A-type food restaurants/diners. But the consistence and self-discipline has really paid off. Over the last several months I finally don't crave wheat products. Yippee! I've weaned myself off those and other foods. My digestive problems are gone unless I eat non-A type foods, I have healthier skin and hair, and I have lost some weight (weight wasn't huge issue). I find the critics are strong-believers of other diet plans and will not consider it all. Or there is one aspect they don't agree with and therefore don't give the diet a chance.
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Summary: What a load of crock
Review: This book should perhaps seek advice from a nutritionist of its own. It appears to be suffering from an acute dietary deficiency: it lacks actual FACTS based on scientific studies. It also shows signs of dangerously high levels of such toxic substances as misinformation, (claiming that the body produces iodine, for instance, which it absolutely does not--iodine must be ingested in foods which contain it), exaggerations, harmful dietary suggestions, and fanciful claims based on nothing other than the author's desire to make money off the gullible. If you fall in that category, go ahead and buy it.
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Summary: People will try anything
Review: "Eat Right 4 your type"....will people not learn that the only healthy diet is through balanced moderated eating from the food pyramid and exercise program that incorporates aerobics and a form of muscle toning 3-5 days a week for 20-45 minutes? No, everyone is in for the "fast" cure. No one wants to do things the right way, they all want to cut corners. Unfortunately, your health deserves you to go the distance and to not put it in jeapordy of a dark alley in a foreign land. This book proposes that each blood type represents a personality...O is the meat-eater, A is the veggie, and B is a combo of both...There is no scientific results to verify this hypothesis. The author is using a sterotype to "explain" your "weight problem"...If this book was written 50 years ago, would it be so far-off to say the title would be "Eat right for your Color: how your skin color determines your best diet"? I think it would be highly credible to imagine the title as such. Folks, when will you learn that fad diets do not work...if you want to have a healthy diet, stop associating "weight" with diet...once you go into finding a diet that is about your health and not about losing pounds, you will then find your perfect health...and that is not manufactured by anybody...Buy a book on nutrition, dont be blinded by the claims of fad diets.
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