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Summary: This book details a very effective plan to optimize health
Review: Speaking as a person who has been following the diet as put forth in the author's original, now classic book "Eat Right for Your Type" for over three years, I can tell you unequivocally that this diet has the power to profoundly change your quality of life and health for the better! I originally went on the blood type diet in 1997 because I was morbidly obese and needed to lose weight, but I have stayed on it and will stay on it for life because it has given me very deep health benefits that I never could have predicted or realized without it. The new book "Live Right for Your Type" goes into great detail on how to further refine the diet and exercise plan in order to minimize weaknesses inherent to your blood type and maximize your strengths, resulting in achieving optimal health. It provides greatly expanded food lists that also offer even more further fine-tuning of the diet with secretor/non-secretor lists (read the book to find out what the heck I'm talking about there!!!), which can be an important key in the diet as well. Whether you start out on this journey in order to lose weight, you have a specific chronic problem that you want to try to address through diet (and the book goes into detail on overcoming many health challenges by customizing the diet to treat these, instead of using drugs as orthodox medicine so often resorts to without trying simple dietary means first), or you are healthy and you just want to support your health in the best way possible for a lifetime, I highly recommend this book. I went on the blood type diet to lose weight, which I have, but it has given me so much more-it has helped me overcome previously uncontrollable food cravings, made my menstrual cycles regular and helped alleviate PMS symptoms, helped tremendously with an upper-respiratory problem, given me great energy, and returned my body and mind to a feeling and sense of balance and deep health. And that's just the tip of the iceberg! I can't say enough about this book-do yourself a favor and buy it, read it and put it into practice! You'll never want to look back!
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Summary: At Last, the Details We Have Been Waiting For
Review: The details that were left out of D'Adamo's first book "Eat Right 4 Your Type" (because they were considered too technical for the general public) are all here, making this a complete diet and lifestyle manual for those interested in understanding what is right for their individual blood type. Lots of current health research relating to blood type is fully referenced, giving it a good scientific basis. To make the book work fully you have to know not only your basic blood type, but also your 'secretor status' - available by further testing. It takes a little while to get to grips with the '2-Tier' system used by the author, one tier for those who may only want to comply with their recommended foods to a limited extent, and one tier for those who want to do it all the right way. Also watch out for the typos in this first edition, and check out D'Adamo's web site for corrections before getting too fixed on what you can or can't eat.
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Summary: Living life according to your blood type
Review: The material contained in this book is simply an extension of the ideas presented in the book, "Eat Right 4 Your Type", by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo. Once again, Dr. D'Adamo presents his case as to why our individual genetic make up should be taken into account before we decide on which diet to follow. The doctor extends this idea further by making the case that our genetic make up should also determine how we live our life.
The ideas presented here are fascinating to me. I have spent many hours of my adult life in gyms and fitness centers. And like most fitness enthusiasts, I have always strived to attain that lean, muscular physique that some people seem to have been born with. Spending that much time at those places will teach you that not everyone responds to exercise in the same way. Why should everyone respond to diet the same way?
I have always suspected that I am what is known as a "hard gainer". I have trouble attaining lean muscle mass. That could partly be due to the fact that I have blood type AB. Whereas those with the lean, muscular bodies tend to have blood type O. I would give anything to be able to live on a diet of high protein and low carbohydrate. I cannot stand tofu. Nor can I stand most of the foods indicated for my blood type. I cannot help but wish that I had a different genetic makeup. Unfortunately, we cannot change our genes. But, at least, now we can find ways to make sure that our diet and our lifestyle are compatible with our genetic design.
Let me add that I do not follow the diet prescribed for my blood type. Again, because I simply do not like the foods indicated for my type. I will be miserable if I had to make Tofu and snails a part of my diet. I must have beef and chicken. I do like Turkey and Salmon though. But that is about it for meat on my diet list. And I am one of those who will fell unsatisfied unless meat is included with every meal. However, that is not a valid reason to criticize the book. The observations made by Dr. D'Adamo, from the way my body reacts to certain foods to the general personality profile, are accurate. When I read the profile of the typical AB, I cannot help but feel that I am reading about myself.
I highly recommend this book. You may decide not to follow the diet, especially if you are unfortunate enough to be a type AB or A. But atleast you will have additional information to help you make decisions about how to live. This book should simply serve as another source of information for you decide which type of diet and exercise to follow.
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Summary: I got a lot of benefit from Dr. D'Adamo's books
Review: This book is a welcome addition to the original Eat Right For Your Type (ER4YT.) I am so used to ER4YT method, where you select foods based on your blood type) that it is almost second nature to me.Now Dr. D'Adamo adds more information about life style, degenerative diseases, more info on minor blood types and secretor versus non-secretor to fine-tune the ER4YT way of eating. This theory has a lot of proponents in Japan (where they have a similar theory that tries to predict actual behavior from blood type.) I don't think blood type is a solid indicator of behavior, but I definitely feel much, much better if I follow these guidelines. And maybe I will avoid some health problems down the road. It isn't hard to avoid the foods and select from the list of beneficial or neutral foods. Beneficial foods are ones that actively will help your health; neutral foods are ok to eat, but have no special benefits. You can even indulge in the occasional "avoid" food once in a while if you are healthy. If you are ill, however, you can maximize your recovery by sticking to the beneficial and neutral foods. This is not a difficult way of life and this book has done me more good than any other diet or health book I ever read.
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Summary: Live Right For Your Type
Review: This book is outstanding! I have read all of Dr. D'Adamo's book and have applied his findings to my own blood type with incredible results. Although I thought I was a healthy person since following his suggestions my allergies have cleared up, I have lost weight and I am going through menopause drug free. Before his diet I was mostly vegetarian with some fish and chicken and trying to follow the low fat high carbohydrate diet and created blood sugar problems. The diet was completely wrong for a Type O and I felt miserable and gained weight. I am very thankful for his research and really get annoyed at critics who know very little about his diet and who have not applied it to their own blood type. This includes doctors or anyone else connected with the medical establishment!
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Summary: Some New, Some Old, Much Borrowed
Review: This books was generally good, however I found it to be a great deal of old material re-explained, some new material, which is useful, and much borrowed material from "The Answer is in Your Bloodtype". This accounts for the re-classification of foods and upgrading of others to superstar status, such as green tea. While Dr. D's books obviously sell more because of the promotion and publisher's efforts, I wouldn't necessarily conclude that his books are the most scientifically based, or knowledgable, especially in the area of life span and compatibility of blood types.
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Summary: Live Right 4 Your Blood Type
Review: We were pleasantly surprised to find that after 3-4 years of following our blood type plans from the first book (Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type), the additional, more individualized information in this new book added even more benefits to our health & well being. During the past few years we have collected a drawer full of prescriptions, herbs, enzymes and other supplements that never had any positive impact on my husbands digestive problems. We've spent lots of money on both traditional & alternative medical tests and treatments. We have been thrilled to find that the solution lay in following the Type A guidelines for digestive supplements, food combining. The exercise and lifestype guidelines have also been helpful and interesting. This book will be one of greatest investments in your health you can ever make.
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Summary: This concept changed my life..
Review: What a book! If you want to feel your best, read this and apply a few simple changes to your lifestyle. Wow. John
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Wow! This follow up book to the original ER4YT is awesome! Modern medicine in our western world is sadly ineffective. Our lives should be lived like animals. Full vitality, till the end(100-120 years.) Unfortunately we are informed by the "experts" that a lifespan to 70-80 years old is lucrative. Nonsense! Not to mention those quarterly colds and seasonal flu's that we all "catch." This is not the way our body is suppose to exist in nature. Our God given created minds are both our saviour and destroyer. This book will help you choose the path of Hippocrates greatest contribution to life and medicine(which is illness preventative living!) The famous quote sums it up to all those with faith to accept the fact that food is our greatest medicine. Dr. D'Adamo is a wonderful prodigy out of the Bastyr college of naturopathic medicine. Top notch, cutting edge, "scientifically" studied literature. Read this book and more important "apply" its principals! You won't be dissapointed.
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