[.ca] The GenoType Diet: Change Your Genetic Destiny to Live ... (ISBN 140015586X)

One size fits all doesn't cut it anymore:
You are a product of your environment and those bad genes you inherited can be tamed or even shut off through proper nutrition, exercise and supplementation. This is where nutrition and medicine have to go...a more personalized approach without having to spend hundreds of dollars doing genetic testing.All you need is a tape rule. Peter D'Adamo has taken his Eat Right 4 Your Type to a higher level and has given us his 'Eat Right For your GenoType' taking not just one gene(blood type) into consideration but many other genes, as well the amount of growth factors and hormones in the fetal environemnt you experienced. This book takes the saying 'One man's food is another man's poison' to a whole new level.

Beyond the Blood Type Diet:
Having had good results with Dr. D'Adamo's diet and cookbook based on my blood type, I looked forward to this new book. When I got the book, I glanced through it . . . and was discouraged to see that I was going to need help to apply the measurements. So the book sat there, and sat there, and sat there. Finally, I decided that I would try to do it on my own. It wasn't easy to do the measurements. But I was intrigued. But I really couldn't finish the measurements without help. I talked my wife into helping me, and she had a hard time figuring out the answers. In several of the measurements, there was essentially no difference between measurement A and measurement B and the ties went one way rather than the other. That seemed odd. I also found the directions to be ambiguous in several cases, but I did my best. I was still looking forward to seeing what foods I should emphasize. Here is where the book threw me for a loop. Many of the items on the superfoods to emphasize were ones that I've never seen in a grocery store. Here are some examples: goat, rabbit, emu, ostrich, partridge, pheasant, quail, squab, bullhead, butterfish, carp, chub, croaker, cusk, drum, halfmoon fish, harvest fish, ocean pout, sucker wolffish, goose egg, quail egg, sailfish roe, paneer cheese, Romanian urda, adzuki bean, chia seed, lotus root, lotus seeds, moth bean, sapodilla, hard-long bean, babassu oil, camelina oil, chia seed oil, grape seed oil, hemp seed oil, oat oil, perilla seed oil, shea nut oil, tea seed oil, amaranth, fonio, Job's tears, teff, kanpyo, oyster plant, acai berry, canistel, carissa, cherimoya, cloudberry, feijoa, goji, mamey sapote, konjac. The list of foods to avoid was equally obscure. I'm sure I won't have any trouble missing those. There were a few foods I've avoided because they are high glycemic that this book promotes for me (honey, watermelon, etc.). Since I have trouble keeping the weight off, I'm not so sure what to do in those areas. The main encouragement is that the book's description of my health was pretty accurate (lots of undiagnosed illnesses that puzzle doctors, extreme sensitivity to environmental pollution, lots of allergies, gallstones, liver problems, etc.). Unless I wanted to read an awful lot of scientific articles, I just have to take it on faith that the work is accurate. That leaves me feeling uncomfortable. I'll probably mainly use this book to add a few more items to avoid. So I'm not so sure how much it helped me to have read it. The supplements list wasn't well explained so I doubt if I'll use those. So am I better off for having read the book? I don't know. That's why I gave the book three stars.