Live Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Prescription for Maximizing Health, Metabolism, and Vitality in Every Stage of Your Life (Eat Right 4 Your Type) - Hardcover

D'Adamo, Dr Peter J; Whitney, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399146733 ISBN 13: 9780399146732

Publisher: Berkley Books, 2001

Synopsis

From the doctor who brought us the blood-type health craze that has swept the nation, here is new research that shows you how to live according to your blood type so that you can achieve total physical and emotional well-being.

Over a million readers have used the individualized blood-type diet solution developed by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo to achieve their ideal weight. In the five years since the New York Times bestseller Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type was published, new research has indicated that there's a blood-type profile for almost every aspect of our lives, and thanks to that new research, your blood type reveals how you can live a better life. Live Right 4 (for) Your Type is Dr. D'Adamo's ground breaking book that will give you individualized prescriptions according to blood type.

According to your blood type, should you:

- Eat three regular meals a day, or small, frequent ones?
- Have a regimented or flexible routine?
- Go to sleep at the same time every night or have a flexible bedtime?
- Do without rest periods or take them religiously?
- Achieve emotional balance through exercise, meditation, or herbs?

Each blood-type prescription is divided into five life areas. Recommendations, guidelines, and informational charts are provided for the following:

- Lifestyle
- Stress and Emotional Balance
- Maximizing Health
- Overcoming Disease
- Strategies for Aging

Live Right 4 (for) Your Type also has information compiled from new research that greatly expands on the information in Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type, featuring:

- New metabolism-boosting supplement lists to increase the body's efficiency and ability to achieve ideal weight.
- Refined food and supplement lists to increase cardiac efficiency, lower cholesterol, and strengthen your ability to fight colds, flu, and more serious diseases.
- Instructions on how to use vegetables and herbs to improve Natural Killer Cell activity.
- New information on blood type subgroups that influence not only weight, but also physical and mental health.

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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: Berkley Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0399146733
• ISBN 13: 9780399146732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400