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Summary: Based on Pseudoscience
Review: Here is yet, another book from a bestselling author who claims that blood type determines what our diet, exercize and lifestyles should be like. After talking to a friend, who has been a pathologist in a blood bank for many years at a leading university medical center, and who has also read all of Eat Right and Live Right books; I can honestly say the books are based on faulty premises.The associations with blood type and disease are not new and at best weak according to most scientific studies,yet more recent studies in the 1987 Amercican Journal of Hematology, shows that blood type AB and B persons have higher levels of Factor VIII and von Willebrands factor, not blood type A as the author has misrepresented in his book.This is the basis, for the author's assumption, that A and AB blood groups having poorer outcomes with cancer and heart disease than the other blood groups.This assumption by the author has not been proven either clinically or scientifically.This is only but a few of the misrepresentations made by the author.Most of the authors suggestions are pretty much common sense, avoid processed food and you're likely to see improvements in your health. Avoidance of allergen producing foods on one's avoid list will do the same. Weight loss will likely occur if your blood type diet is suited to your metabolism.
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Summary: Are you living "right" for your type?
Review: Here the author covers much more ground than he did in Eat Right. There is a thorough description on each blood type, including temperament, response to stress and emotional stability, metabolism. There are detailed recommendation for each blood type on nutrition, lifestyle, sports. Also, there are descriptions of blood type's inherent vulnerabilities to various diseases, and how to overcome them. The author includes a good list of website resources at the end for further information on this fascinating medical framework.
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Summary: Better and broader in scope than Eat Right 4 Your Type
Review: Here the author covers much more ground than he did in Eat Right. There is a thorough description on each blood type, including temperament, response to stress and emotional stability, metabolism. There are detailed recommendation for each blood type on nutrition, lifestyle, sports. Also, there are descriptions of blood type's inherent vulnerabilities to various diseases, and how to overcome them. The author includes a good list of website resources at the end for further information on this fascinating medical framework.
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Summary: This book did change my life and for the better!
Review: I and my husband have been eating by these guidelines for almost 3 years now. I have lost more than 45 pounds. I am in a size 6 again (as a middle aged woman I'm more than happy)! My husband has lost more than 20 pounds. We both have kept it off with no effort except that of changing our eating habits.I even eat more than I used to, but I eat differently from the way I used to. I never feel starved and after every meal I now have a feeling of "well being". Eating is a joy again. This is great as I had tremendous digestive problems before going on this "diet". This "diet" can change your life forever for the better. I will never go back to eating the way I did before! This has been a life changing experience. No doubt, you will definitely have to make changes if you go by it, but the fact that you no longer have to deal with gas, indigestion, and weight gain makes it well worth the initial effort to change. I wish everyone would give this a try. You'd be the better for it. I can't give it enough praise.
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Summary: excellent book
Review: I bought this book because I'd read about the blood type diet elsewhere, and was curious. THis is an excellent book, and I've followed D'Adamo's advice for over two years now. He not only tells you which foods you should and shouldn't eat, this book also relates different diseases to blood type. When my son started having ear infections I suspected that he had A or AB blood type, and sure enough, he's AB. My daughters who are type B's, have never had an ear infection.
This is not a weightloss program book but a lifestyle book that will change your life forever if you follow the guidelines. It's not hard. I'm type B, so I'm not supposed to eat chicken, tomatoes, wheat, or corn( there are a lot more but these are the more popular items). I don't crave for them and it's very easy to avoid these food items.
You must read the history on blood types to understand the concept of blood type diet.
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Summary: I thank God for this book.
Review: I don't generally like diet books or health food theories...but D'Adamo's system validated some of my inexplicable food preferences and dislikes (Why don't I like chicken? What's so great about roast turkey or pineapple?) so I decided to take a chance and try the diet. I was shocked that within a few days of following the guidelines for my blood type, a number of chronic health problems disappeared. D'Adamo doesn't have all the answers, but he has definitely brought clearer thinking to my food choices. If you want to skip the theory and get right down to what's for dinner, "Cook Right 4 Your Type" will give you a useful range of menues and recipes. One book is not a major expense. As to all the other books, products, and services the author provides: I don't mind if the author makes a lot of money. I believe he deserves it!
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Summary: A must-have possession!
Review: I found this book to be even more scientific than ER4YT. Being that I am a Registered Nurse, it's important to me that the concept of eating and living according to your blood type is based upon scientific research. This book is quite involved in scientific jargon for maybe a lay person with little or no medical knowledge. One may find it slow to get into. However, it answered many questions that lingered in my mind from reading the last book. However, if you want to cut straight to the chase, just go directly towards the back of the book for instructions on how to eat and live right for your type. This book is a MUST-HAVE possession if you value your health like I do!
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Summary: Not explained
Review: I have been on this diet for about 5 months. I have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and hypoglycemia (Type B+). I have seen little change since I went on this diet. However, I'm most disappointed about the explanations in his book. I read his first book, ER4YT, in which he gave virtually no explanation for his recommended and avoided foods. I was hoping that this book, LR4YT, would give explanations. What I found, however, was various scientific explanations sprinkled throughout the book for various problems -- but little mention of how he concluded what is a recommended food, what is a neutral food and what is an avoid food. He makes no mention how he tests the thousands of foods he lists; what he actually test for; what exactly happens to the body when the right and wrong foods are eaten; and why there are so many healthy people eating wrong foods all their life (will it eventually catch up with them? In how long?). I have submitted these questions on his web site, but he has not responded.
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Summary: Lacks the pizzaz of "Eat Right" and "Cook Right"
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed both "Eat Right 4 Your Type" and "Cook Right 4 Your Type;" they were truly super books! While this one may be beneficial, it is not nearly as interesting. As I read through the pages, I found some of the statements given contradicted information given in the two earlier books. There was also a certain degree of repetition of the material in previous books. What new information the book did contain, especially when it came to the Lewis Blood Grouping and secretor status, was worded in such a technical nature, I was ready to throw up my hands and say, "Who cares?" Yes, I realize the information has merit, but the wording simply did not hold my interest. One other flaw with the book, was the size of print used in the tables; you almost need 20/20 vision or a magnifying glass to read the tables. If you have not read any of these books, I would highly recommend you invest your money in "Eat Right 4 Your Type" or "Cook Right 4 Your Type" (which was actually my favourite)and save this one as a last resort.
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Summary: If You Liked Eat Right for Your Type, You Will Adore This Book
Review: I thought that Eat Right for Your Type was one of the most helpful self-help health books I had ever read. Live Right for Your Type is much more valuable than that one. If you have read neither, read this one. If you have read and liked Eat Right for Your Type, you will find this book a great improvement on that one. If your life seems strangely out of kilter and you and your doctors can't quite put your finger on what's wrong, I strongly urge you to read this book. It may well contain important clues for creating more "wellness" for you from the correct application of self-discipline in your eating and activities. The basic weakness of most scientific studies and almost all health books is that they look at average results for the whole population. The studies cited in this book are based on seeing major differences in the body chemistries of people with different blood types. In the same way that you can drown in an average of six inches of water (if that average expresses a range from 10 feet deep to half an inch), the average health advice can make your health worse in some cases. Eat Right for Your Type was first published in 1996. That pioneering book summarized hundreds of research studies to define healthful eating for people with each different blood type. The underlying mechanism for this relationship is that your blood type influences your body chemistry in ways that create vulnerability or resistance to disease and an efficiently operating body. The four blood types are O, A, B, and AB. Type O people need the most animal protein (especially beef. Type A people need lots of vegetables. Type B people should eat a varied diet. Type AB people should eat smaller, more frequent meals. Based on that book, many people reported remarkable gains in health, vitality, and weight loss after changing what they eat. In my case, my weight is now 31 pounds less than on my old way of eating (one that my Mother, who has Type A blood, had encouraged all my life -- but I am a Type O person). Many such case histories are reported in Live Right for Your Type. Live Right for Your Type includes all of the diet information of Eat Right for Your Type, and adds to it insights into personality development, stress management, digestion, disease, and aging. Space does not permit explaining each of these links here, but personality traits are related to different ways that brain chemicals are created and processed by people with different blood types. Type O people, for example, are more easily stimulated into "fight or flight" responses and stay in them longer. Genetic influences are the beginning of how these factors influence you. Your genes for blood type and other traits come from your parents. From these genes, you get a phenotype (one of the four blood types), a secretion status (whether you secrete antigens into your other bodily fluids or not, as well as into your blood), a Rhesus Factor (positive or negative), and your MN blood type (MM, NN, or MN). All of these concepts are well explained in the appendix of the book. There are also instructions for how you can send away to be tested so you will know what your characteristics are (a total cost of $51.40). In the main body of the book are many explanations of how each of these factors have been associated with the different aspects of life. The heart of the book though comes in four sections where all of the information about each of the four main blood types is summarized. Yup, there I was in the Type O group with my quick temper, inclination to stay stressed out once stressed, oversensitivity to caffeine and alcohol, impulsiveness to create variety, and blissful reaction to exercise. Dr. D'Adamo definitely had me pegged. To me the greater insight was when I looked at the type for my wife. I had become concerned about some health vulnerabilities she was experiencing. Yup, there they were. And the things that help her were the items listed. I heaved a big sigh of relief. Whew! It's natural. If you want to take all of this further, there are instructions in the book for how to get more instructional material and to order special food supplements for each blood type. Normally, I find such offerings offensive. In this case, I had the opposite reaction. I don't know where else to get information that will help me, and I want to know more. Unlike many books that are based on one study or one hypothesis, this book is built on hundreds of studies. These are cited in the back of the book. Although I did not look any of these up, these seemed to be from reputable sources. There is some speculation in the book. I was fascinated to see that some of the brain chemistry related genes are located next to the blood type genes in DNA. We don't know enough yet to know what that means. It may mean nothing, but it is certainly interesting to think about. After you have finished following advice in this book and feeling better, I suggest that you think about people you care about who are potentially living and eating in ways that don't match their blood types. Please do share this book with them. You will be giving a very precious gift. Live more naturally, in keeping with your true physical self!
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