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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: Controlling diabetes is about using a blood sugar monitor to determine how individual foods influence YOUR blood sugar. Being a blood type A--which the author states should follow a high carbohydrate diet--my blood sugar sky rockets on carbohydrates. Listen to YOUR body and blood sugar monitor results, not this idiotic book. Besides, this book is a regurgitation of all his other books and is an insult to the reader's intelligence. There is no new information in this book and no references to document any of it.
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Summary: How to Take Control of Your Health/Eat For Your Blood Type
Review: I found this book to be most informative and helpful in the successful management of elevated blood sugar levels, triglycerides and body fat. This book allowed me to eliminate foods from my diet that are triggers for insuline production for my blood type, and allowed me to take control of my diet. This book very matter of factly lists foods that are beneficial to your blood type and those that are harmful. Each food group is broken down into five categories, from "very beneficial" to "avoid" for literally hundreds of foods. As I began to eliminate foods that are in the avoid column, I immediately noticed a difference in my energy level, and overall well being. It was a dramatic change for me, and the side benefit is the loss of eleven pounds in three weeks, better sleep patterns, loss of cravings, and an overall feeling of renewed health. I recommend this book to anyone that has been diagnosed with early stages of Type 2 Diabetes, or is pre-diabetic. Following the recommendations in this book will help you to take control of you health, and create lifestyle changes that will benefit you long into the future.
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Summary: An excellent resourse for living better
Review: My family has a history of type 2 diabetes, so I wanted to know how to avoid becoming a diabetic. This book in addition to the other books especially Live Right 4 Your Type have been excellent resources to help me understand my genetic hertitage. I am an O blood type, secretor. I am amazed at how much more energetic and powerful I feel now that I have been utilizing the diet for a year now. I rarely feel fatigued now. I have increased muscle mass. Best of all, now that I have eliminated wheat products, dairy and corn from my diet, I do not have anymore cramping/pain in my colon.
I know that avoiding the 'avoid foods' is difficult. It was for me too; I had been eating a goblet of ice cream every night before going to bed and I loved OREO cookies. As we get older (I'm 40 now) however we need to leave such childish eating behavior behind us if we want to be healthy and this book is the best resource I have read to date. If you are overweight and/or diabetic and you want take eating action to solve your health condition this book is a start. I also would highly recomend working with a doctor who is IjHI (Institute for Human Individuality) Certified. These doctors specialize in treating diabetes and other preventable health conditions with this diet. These doctors are not cheap but worth every penny if you value your health. Doctors not certified are simply unaware of treatments that can solve someones diabetic condition, so they prescribe what they know short term solutions (drugs).
I love being in control of my health, my kids do too. It's not easy or cheap, but it's worth it. If you solve the problem, you live life with joy; If treat the symptoms only, you live life with agony.
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Summary: How to Take Control of Your Health/Eat For Your Blood Type
Review: The author disposes of the myth that one size fits all when it
comes to managing diabetes. He presents plans for each of the
classic blood types. In addition, he recommends reducing
stress as a condition precedent to managing the disease
optimally. Soy, vegetables, fish oil, broccoli, mushrooms
and exercise are presented as important ingredients in the
control over diabetes and its related manifestations.
If you have tried everything and nothing has worked, then this
book will help you to identify strategies for dealing
effectively with diabetes. Understand that you must develop
effective strategies for managing the diabetes because the
disease impacts the nerves, heart and virtually every body
function. This book is worth the price because the author
has discovered a new and unique dimension to handling the disease; namely, a different strategy for each blood type.
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Summary: Buyer Beware
Review: The central focus of diabetes management is to control blood glucose levels through diet, exercize and stress management. Depending upon how severe the disease is depends upon which therapeutic intervention will work the best (ie. insulin, or oral medications, Avandia, Glucophage or diet and exercize alone).Individual diet plays an important role as well. Looking at the beneficial and super beneficial lists for O and A blood types; I can see that some of these foods, such as bananas,plums,prunes,figs,pineapples,mangos,parsnips and sweet potatoes are actually some of the worst offenders in raising blood sugar levels. There are several type O and A diabetics in my family and I can certainly say that if my family tried these diets that they would be comatose. My mom an O blood type can handle full fat ice cream better than she can handle eating a banana which is supposedly beneficial for her.According to D'Adamo, the glycemic index is invalid for blood type A because it doesn't take into account additional factors which may influence some people's ability to metabolize certain foods. This is one statement that he has made that I strongly disagree with. My grandfather an A blood type can not handle eating beans which are mostly carbs due to the glycemic index. So if you are an A or an O approach this diet with extreme caution, it could certainly be a disaster. Furthermore the American Diabetes Association has been experimenting with a diet that is 35% fat, 20% protein and around 45% low glycemic carb with good results and more studies to follow. They have also recommended that diabetics exercize vigorously, something that is not recommended by D'Adamo for certain blood types. Another question is where are D'Adamos's clinical studies that show that his diets work better than the ADA's or anyone elses for diabetics?
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