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Summary: A Good Effort...
Review: I found a lot of the information in Your Body Knows Best to be very informative, however, it doesn't compare to Eat Right For Your Type. This book came out a few years before ER4YT and doesn't have the same scientific background as Dr. D'Adamo's book. If you want a brief distillation on how blood type and metabolism relate to what you should eat, this is the book for you. However, if you want to take a much more comprehensive look at how our ancestry affects what foods we benefit from eating, I suggest you read either Eat Right For Your Type or Live Right For Your Type. I give this book three stars, because it is a good introduction to the blood type theory. It just doesn't go far enough.
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Summary: most common sense weight loss book on the market
Review: I have read them all but I must say that Your Body Knows Best makes the most common sense out of all the diet books out there. Gittleman, et.al use ancestry, metabolism and blood type as modifying factors in individualizing diets. When I finally realized I was a fast oxidizer and couldn't burn up all those fat free carbos, the pounds just started coming off real quickly. Bravo. I am sending this book out as my Christmas present this year to all my friends I really care about.
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Summary: Not a bad read, but incomplete
Review: I recently read Ann Louise Gittleman's book "The Fat Flush Plan" and followed the program for a month and half with very good results. I liked her style and her approach. She's not just another nutritionist or lean person writing a book about something she never had to experience - she knows what it means, to be on a diet thinking that it's the healthiest possible and seeing fail on you, she knows what it means to be on the search for "the perfect weight loss plan" or "the healthiest diet". So when I heard about this book, I was positively thrilled.Creating a taylored regimen utilizing a combination of different approaches that have been developed through the years is a brilliant idea - after all, metabolic typing and the blood group diet seem to have worked great for a lot of people, but they too were inperfect plans. So combining the two of them and adding the data about ancestry and body needs developed through one's "family tree" seemed like the best idea of all. But a work like this would go into very many aspects and peculiarities, since each approach has its own flaws and supposedly these could be sort of fixed by jumping in with a different approach. In other words, a book like what this book promises would have be much thicker and go into each "tool of personalization" much deeper than this book actually does. It does contain some useful info, and anyone who can fit into the categories very specifically will find it helpful. But in my case, this book didn't tell me anything that could help me taylor my food regimen to my needs - I happen to be of the blood group AB, which is the newest and least common one, so I am told to find a balance between the A group diet and the B group diet. No tayloring on that aspect. Then we come to consider the metabolic typing, and I seem to be a fast burner, except I have some key characteristics of the slow burner, like a passion for cakes, sweets and pastries, and a feeling that no meal is complete without a sweet fix. So that also puts me kind of in the middle. In short, this book is based on an excellent idea but it barely touches the tip of the iceberg. In order to be truly helpful and complete it would need to go much more into each approach and include research on the "exceptions". A good read for anyone who doesn't have much knowledge of the field of nutrition, mainly an interesting read, but not very useful, for anyone else.
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Summary: Makes MUCH MORE SENSE THAN EAT RIGHT FOR YOUR TYPE
Review: I took the metabolic type test in this book which determined that I am a fast burner. Since I am also blood type B and of northern European descent, my eating plan should include red meat and full-fat dairy products to keep me satiated for a longer period of time (than eating pure carbs would). However, I found that eating this way didn't really make me feel any fuller. I think the author's ideas are refreshing (that one type of diet isn't right for everyone, and that you need to experiment to find out what's right for you), but I thought the book could be better organized, especially in the section where the three eating profiles are listed.
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Summary: Interesting but could be better organized
Review: I took the metabolic type test in this book which determined that I am a fast burner. Since I am also blood type B and of northern European descent, my eating plan should include red meat and full-fat dairy products to keep me satiated for a longer period of time (than eating pure carbs would). However, I found that eating this way didn't really make me feel any fuller. I think the author's ideas are refreshing (that one type of diet isn't right for everyone, and that you need to experiment to find out what's right for you), but I thought the book could be better organized, especially in the section where the three eating profiles are listed.
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Summary: You would starve
Review: I was shocked to discover that according to Gittleman I am supposed to exist on 4 - 6 oz of protein a day! Is she kidding with this? If you actually adopted her eating guides you might survive, but you would wish you were dead. Save your money, this is an extremely restrictive diet! Very unrealistic!!
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Summary: I think the idea is good, but needs alittle work
Review: I would have like more indepth information regarding the menu planning. Can you mix some of the foods together, will you get the same result?? What, some of the ideas were vague.
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Summary: I think the idea is good, but needs alittle work
Review: I would have like more indepth information regarding the menu planning. Can you mix some of the foods together, will you get the same result?? What, some of the ideas were vague.
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Summary: Great Basic Nutrition Info!
Review: Not the easiest book to begin reading but well worth getting through the first two chapters. By far one of the BEST books I have ever read on nutrition and common food myths (and I am an AVID reader). This book really helps you learn to explore the problems inherent in the modern American diet. Has a back to basics approach that really makes you think about what you are putting into your mouth and what it does for your body. Even without the personalized eating plans the information on Carbs, fats and proteins is something everyone (but especially perpetual dieters) needs to read and understand. Buy this book for your health and just to learn about food in general. You will change the way you think about food.
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Summary: Great Basic Nutrition Info!
Review: Not the easiest book to begin reading but well worth getting through the first two chapters. By far one of the BEST books I have ever read on nutrition and common food myths (and I am an AVID reader). This book really helps you learn to explore the problems inherent in the modern American diet. Has a back to basics approach that really makes you think about what you are putting into your mouth and what it does for your body. Even without the personalized eating plans the information on Carbs, fats and proteins is something everyone (but especially perpetual dieters) needs to read and understand. Buy this book for your health and just to learn about food in general. You will change the way you think about food.
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