Live Right 4 Your Type ~ Live Right for Your Type: The Individualised Prescription for Maximizing Health, Metabolism, and Vitality in Every Stage of Your Life - Softcover

Whitney, Catherine; D'Adamo, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0718144767 ISBN 13: 9780718144760

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2001

Synopsis

The Individualised Prescription for Maximising Health, Metabolism and Vitality in Every Stage of Your Life. The sequel to the bestselling THE EAT RIGHT DIET (or as it was titled in America EAT RIGHT 4 YOUR TYPE). Dr D'Adamo begins with personality profiles of our four blood types, examining the neurochemical and hormonal makeups of each type and their relationship to people's emotional balance and health. He then outlines in detail four separate lifestyle and health prescriptions for each of the four blood types (including strategies for fighting of ageing, maximising good health, overcoming disease, dealing with stress and maintaining emotional balance). He concludes with chapters on immunity and cancer susceptibility by blood type.

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Review:

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 For 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 For Your Type.

Now, Dr D'Adamo--armed with new studies on genetic links between blood types, disease and behaviour--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 online blood-type registry. 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

From the Author:

Live Right For Your Type will help you to:
-Choose a lifestyle that agrees with your needs and
tendencies.
-Structure your days to reduce stress and gain more
satisfaction.
-Raise your children in such a way as to maximize their
unique potential.
-Live longer, avoiding the mental and physical deterioration
of aging.
-Fine-tune your dietary strategies to produce new levels of
energy and stamina.
-Overcome the chronic health conditions that may have
plagued you and your family for decades.
-Find emotional balance and the elimination of anxiety and
depression.
-Feel 'right' in your body, your mind, and your world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0718144767
• ISBN 13: 9780718144760
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386