BOOK REVIEW
EAT RIGHT FOR YOUR BLOOD TYPE
Many of you have already read the book, Eat Right For Your Blood Type, rushed out to find what your own blood type was, and have begun eating correctly for your blood type. The data in the book is not a fad. You will know it is not a fad after you eat right for your type for about a week, or sooner. It makes you feel better faster than any of the long list of expensive supplements you were hoping would remedy your problems.
The book is called Eat Right For Your Blood Type, by Dr. Peter D'Adamo. D'Adamo has spent years researching how different foods affect different blood types. His father, also a doctor, spent the main part of his life researching how foods affected the blood types. So now there are two generations of research on this work. You have probably read or heard glimmerings of this long awaited information, such as, did you come from the oldest ancestral line, the hunters, who subsisted on meat mainly, or were your ancestors the cultivators, who began cultivating grains, or did you descend from ancestors even later on the time track, making it possible for you to do well on some dairy products. Several thousands of years from now, there will be a blood type who thrives on junk food, but it will take thousands of years to change our metabolisms to accommodate our love of junk foods. Does this make sense? Of course it does. Beings can bring about the changes they desire, given enough time. That's what food junkies are trying to do, but they are going for too steep a gradient and falling on their heads. They haven't learned how to change their metabolisms in less than thousands of years. The point is, a diet of heavy metals, pollutants, and solvents may be just the ticket for the blood stream of future descendants of today's junkies.
There are four blood types, and you are one of them. The most prevalent type is type 0, the heavy meat eater, This type does best with only a scanty amount of grain in their diet. The next most prevalent is type A, the vegetarian, who does extremely well on grains, cannot eat heavy meat, but can eat chicken, turkey, and some kinds of fish, but the less fish and poultry, the healthier he will be. Then there is the B type, and the latest on the time track is called the A-B type, perhaps the most versatile eater.
Dr. D'Adamo's book lays it out in black and white with no shades of gray to confuse you. No matter what type you are, there is an abundance of delightful foods, and you will never go hungry. The foods, spices, and herbs are laid out for each blood type into three categories: (l) highly beneficial, (2) neutral, and (3) avoid. The highly beneficials act like medicines for you, the neutrals act like foods for you and you need them, and the avoids act like poisons to you. Ever hear that one man's food is another's poison? This book takes much mystery out of the field of nutrition and is destined to make many diet books obsolete. You will no longer wonder why some members of the family get sick on the diet that makes you well. For example, meat products make the type A fat, but keep the type 0's lean. Grains make the type 0's fat, but keep the type A's lean. Some foods will turn alkaline in one blood type and acid in another blood type. Some vitamins are unnecessary for some blood types and necessary for others. Some herbs are beneficial for some blood types and antagonistic to others. If you are a vegetarian type A, you are lucky, because coffee is beneficial for you. If you have someone who is hacking away at you to give up coffee, and you find out your true blood type is A, then shove this book under their nose, and say ha ha! D'Adamo also explains in detail what happens in your blood stream, depending on your blood type, when you partake of the foods on your "avoid" list. My husband did not like giving up his cayenne pepper, but the pain in his gut is gone and the cramps in his legs are gone.
It's a good bet that most of us are eating something almost every day on our blood type "avoid" list. In this case, day after day after day, you will not feel your best.
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