Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight

I have been following the "Paleolithic Diet" and"Native Nutrition" lines of research for over a decade now. But how do you eat the food of your ancestors if you're an American Mutt? Live on Oatmeal, Kelp, and raw Buffalo? Dr. D'Adamo's bookbrings it all into perspective. I am a Type O and most of the foods on his "Good" list for my type are the things I crave. Conversely, most of the things on his "Avoid" list for my type are the things I'll eat if you hold a gun to my head! My appetite at least agrees with him! I am on my third week and my family is about ready to give up and join me. You can't argue with visible success.

The good Dr. also maintains a very helpful website where you can get a lot of information - but you really need the book to get the details.


Scientific, Common-Sense, Flexible, Easy to Use   February 10, 1998
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

I was interested in this book immediately upon reading the title. After having worked in a hospital blood lab, the vital importance of not mixing blood types for patients was impressed on me by all of the technicians working in the blood bank. Even the regular guy or gal on the street has watched enough medical or news shows on TV to realize the importance of correct blood typing. You can die if it gets mixed up.

What this book showed me was that a similiar, although at a much lower level, effect can happen from eating foods that have blood type antigens to your blood type.

It's the accumulation of these antigens over time which, to me at least, is frightening. After all, there is only so much room in the body for storage of sludge that cannot be moved, and if you are already ill, or immune suppressed, I can only assume that this process of acuumulation would happen faster.

Therefore, it makes perfect sense to me not to put into my body that which will glue it up and eventually cause more problems than it is worth to eat as I did before this book.

Besides, I have watched my body lose weight and tone up, and I am not even trying! I am a very inactive person. I hate exercise with a passion! Yet it is still happening. And I don't have the stomach and intestine problems that I have experienced since I was 14 years old.

The really great thing is that the author tells you what you can eat, but does not say "you must eat." Therefore, lactose intolerant indivuals, for instance, can eat eggs or fermented dairy (such as yogurt, in which the milk sugar has changed into a digestible form)

It is scientific, common sense, flexible and easy to use. Simply don't buy or use foods on the avoid list and you are in business.


Type O+ Considers This a Miracle   January 30, 1998
21 out of 23 found this review helpful

On Dec. 31 I consulted a new doctor for painful and debilitating fibromyalgia, expecting him to recommend physical therapy or acupuncture. I was really surprised when he recommended that I eliminate wheat from my diet, read ER4YT and try the recommendations. (By the way, he is also an O with fibromyalgia and follows this eating plan.) Before Christmas, I couldn't walk the length of the shopping mall without excruciating back spasms. Within a week of eliminating wheat, I felt myself standing up straighter, had less pain overall and much more energy. I started incorporating more of the recommended foods and eliminating more of the foods to avoid, realizing that for the last few years I've been eating lots of pasta and lentils (no-nos for Os) thinking they were healthy! Last week I walked the length of the mall and back without stopping to sit down or rest - and didn't hurt. My digestion has improved, my skin has improved, I'm sleeping better, and in four weeks I lost 7 pounds - without even trying. I'm also a singer, and my teacher is still amazed at the sudden and continuing changes in my voice. For the first time in years the resonance cavities are clear. My breath is not constricted. I realize this is something of a departure from conventional wisdom about nutrition - but it works.


Excellent advice for allergy sufferers   January 29, 1998
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I have been desperately ill for 2 years due to food allergies, by following the recommendations in this book, which by the way, is in an easy to read and follow format, I am recovering strength, health, energy and outlook. Well worth the read even if you are not poisoned by chemicals yet!