[.ca] Live Right For Your Type (ISBN 0399146733)

From Amazon.com:
The idea that blood type plays a role in health, wellness, and personality wasn't exactly new when Dr. Peter D'Adamo came out with Eat Right 4 Your Type in 1997. The idea had been around for most of the 19th century, and had gained quite a bit of currency in Japan. But it was a startling idea to most Americans, who made the book a bestseller that was translated into more than 40 languages and spawned a similarly successful sequel, Cook Right 4 Your Type. Now, Dr. D'Adamo--armed with new studies on genetic links between blood types, disease, and behavior--looks at the psychological and medical peculiarities that seem to predominate in one blood type or another. Type O's, for example, have lower than average amounts of a brain chemical called dopamine, leading to poor concentration, hyperactivity, and temper tantrums. A's tend to manufacture too much cortisol, a stress hormone that can lead to hypertension and has even been implicated in Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Type B's and AB's clear nitric oxide out of their systems faster, allowing them to calm down more rapidly than other blood types when stressed. Dr. D'Adamo offers detailed lifestyle modifications for each type, including exercise programs, long lists of food to either seek out or avoid, and suggested treatment of specific illnesses. Some of this gets pretty arcane, including his recommendation of bladder wrack (a seaweed) for ulcer treatment of Type O's. A big part of the appeal of this book series is that anyone reading it can become a participant by joining Dr. D'Adamo's blood-type registry at www.dadamo.com. Live Right for Your Type is peppered with testimonials from these registrants, giving the reader a sense that a true transformation in health, appearance, weight, and well-being is just a few diet and lifestyle changes away. --Lou Schuler

Forget the fads...:
This books takes his earlier work (Eat right for your type) to the next level. The blood type diet has it's backing in a mountain of scientific research and study, not only by D'Adamo, but by countless others. One only has to do a "Pubmed" search for blood-type related research to illustrate this for themselves. This "diet" should more aptly be refered to as a lifestyle change...for the rest of your life. Those other fad diets, such as Atkins, may work well for many, but should be seen for what they are... short term weight loss tools. The blood type diet is much more than a simple weight loss plan, but a broad based strategy for overall health and wellbeing. While I have found my own holes in his theories and suggestions, the majority of his work is solid and most importantly works. Sticking to the recommendations for "beneficial" and "avoid" foods can seen daunting at first, but with a little persistence and imagination, one can adhere quite well to the changes that come with eating right for your type.

This is not a diet, it's a liberating way of life.:
Knowing your blood type, and beyond that whether you are a secretor or non-secretor (both tests can be ordered from the book) gives you the valuable information to begin a whole new way of eating and a whole new energy level. This is the book I've been looking for my entire life! I've been following LIVE RIGHT FOR YOUR TYPE's guidelines for a few years and have never felt better. I also use Dr. D'Adamo's blood-type-specific vitamins, minerals and herbal preparations. This way of eating makes such logical sense to me that I'm amazed that it hasn't become a way of life for the multitudes! If I could have given it 10 stars, I would have, because that's how much it's changed my life for the better!

Based on Pseudoscience:
Here is yet, another book from a bestselling author who claims that blood type determines what our diet, exercize and lifestyles should be like. After talking to a friend, who has been a pathologist in a blood bank for many years at a leading university medical center, and who has also read all of Eat Right and Live Right books; I can honestly say the books are based on faulty premises.The associations with blood type and disease are not new and at best weak according to most scientific studies,yet more recent studies in the 1987 Amercican Journal of Hematology, shows that blood type AB and B persons have higher levels of Factor VIII and von Willebrands factor, not blood type A as the author has misrepresented in his book.This is the basis, for the author's assumption, that A and AB blood groups having poorer outcomes with cancer and heart disease than the other blood groups.This assumption by the author has not been proven either clinically or scientifically.This is only but a few of the misrepresentations made by the author.Most of the authors suggestions are pretty much common sense, avoid processed food and you're likely to see improvements in your health. Avoidance of allergen producing foods on one's avoid list will do the same. Weight loss will likely occur if your blood type diet is suited to your metabolism.

You only need to read a fourth of the book:
One great advantage of a book like this is that you only need to read the fourth with your blood type. That way you will not be jealous of the other three fourths. All kidding aside, the book has way too much depth to synthesize in the few paragraphs of a review. This is an extension to the theory put forward in the work called "Eat Right 4 Your Type". You can start with this book as it will recap the key points and definitions used. Whether this like astrology (which has in-depth ephemeris) or actually empirical testing (many sighted in the back of the book), Dr. Peter J. D'Amato hit the nail on the head for me. It is spooky. However many people can not be just typed in a hand full of classes and the book makes no effort to do so; it just gives passable examples and probable solutions to helping you live long and prosper. I just lucked out and got the blood type I wanted to match, so I did not have to change life styles.

Are you living "right" for your type?:
Let's face it, there have been a lot of arguments against d'Adamo's diet plans for each type. Beyond that, anyone who takes the time to peruse the reviews of the texts he's authored -- or better yet, the user forums on his website, will realize that his diet has worked for thousands of people. You may dismiss his writings as pseudo-science or even fiction, but the truth is: it has worked for many. While I find some of the medical and scientific bases for his claims to be a little loosely spun (personally, there isn't enough reference to reputable sources of knowledge for me), it does provide an interesting anthropological take on lifestyle and cause of disease. I have to admit, many of the foods on the "avoid" list for my type are ones I already knew I had allergies, intolerances, or simply distaste for. Even following Peter d'Adamo's diet ever so casually, I've seen improvement in many areas of health. I especially recommend this book to those who've experienced the frustration of fad diets that eliminate all the "good things" in life and force absolute adherence -- Peter's does not, with the understanding that most of us are "only human" and will end up breaking a diet that is too strict; rather, this diet is about making a permanent, lifelong shift to a healthier lifestyle and diet.