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

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!


A fad diet with little factual scientific basis   January 28, 1998
10 out of 17 found this review helpful

This book came into my family over Christmas and has since taken my fathers eating habits hostage. The author has constructed a very detailed nutritional plan based on a couple facts: there are corellations between ethnicity and blood type and that blood types are defined by a response to antigens which, in a few rare cases (there are only a couple in his bibliography), can respond to a class of protiens in foods. In fact, blood type anigens are quite specific, defined by only a few genes and I find the idea that they respond in subtle ways to a wide variety of lectins (a class of protien) is highly improbable. I would add that the idea that eating in the manner of our ancestors, while intuitively appealing, neglects the fact that, throughout our evolutionary history until the last few generations, life expectancies hovered in the 30s. Ancestral diets may have had disasterous consequences for health in middle and old age that were simply never experienced and adjusted for. The author has built this theory based almost soley on his own research, if we are to assume his bibiography is complete. We have no way to judge the methods or extent of his research since he has not published it, again according to his bibliography. I would not play around with my nutrition based on the assertions of this man.


AMAZING REVELATIONS: WHY ALL DIETS DON'T WORK FOR EVERYONE!   January 25, 1998
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

My wife and I were so happy to find this book! We are reading it and the book is great, and right on target! We were amazed to find out Dr. D'Adamo and his father had done research on diets for different blood types. This book explains so well why all diets can't work for everyone. We also read "Protein Power". That diet worked great for me, until I started eating a low carbohydrate whole wheat tortilla at each meal, for the fiber content. Dr. D'Adamo explains in detail why a person with O type blood should not eat whole wheat! Who knew? The book lists all kinds of food that are benefitial for persons with certain blood types, and the foods to avoid. Dr. D'Adamo explains in detail the history of each type, and why we need to watch what we eat for our good health. We would definately recommend this book to all who have had trouble loosing weight, or who think they may have health problems because of the food they are eating.