Eat Right 4 Your Type Diet

Pros: This "diet" book contributes to making people mindful of what they put in their mouths
Cons: This book = the epitome of pseudo-science

This book seems appealing at first. The author has a way of making your feel "special." The author also has a way of making your afraid that you've been eating the wrong food for your blood type, and THAT's the cause of ALL of your health related ...

Pros: Worked minimally. Interesting concept. I don't know if it actually worked for food allergies.
Cons: A-diet is too soy-rich. Too restrictive. Cuts out whole food groups.

I was excited that a doctor was paying attention to my cries for help with thyroid weight I had gained. My naturopathic doctor that I decided to see recommended this book and diet instead of doing a food allergies test. She took my blood type and I was ...

Pros: What I so needed!!!!! Simple, easy.
Cons: If you don't want to, you won't. That's why some fail.

I was over weight and needing help to get myself back on track physically and mentally. After getting married my family friend stopped me in a store and said "try this", "it has changed my life". I thought... what ever... like this would work. I would be ...

Pros: Lots of choices between Highly Beneficial and Neutral. Got me off of my plateau.
Cons: Some of my fave foods are in the AVOID area.

Earlier I wrote a review and posted it incorrectly in this category. I wrote more of a review of the book than the actual diet so this will hopefully fix that problem and be more towards the actual diet and it's results etc from my humble ...

Pros: None.
Cons: If you're not type O, everything.

I first heard of this diet four years ago at a family Christmas gathering where a formally chunky niece breezed in wearing skin tight clothes and looking as slim as a model. When pressed for details she revealed she had been following the Eat Right For ...

Pros: It beats stimulant diets.
Cons: No scientific basis, restrictive, expensive

Welcome to the next fad diet that people are all going to laugh at in a few years. Your blood - what could be more important? It flows through your entire body, carries nutrients, oxygen, water - so why not make everyone believe that blood type is the...

Pros: Best book on healthy eating I've ever read
Cons: You may have to give up some favorite foods but the results are amazing

I had suffered with severe, itchy excema for 2 years. Doctors (internist, dermatologist, specialist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore) offered me little more than cortizone cream which is really bad for the immune system. I showed my closest friends the...

Pros: an elegant theory worthy of more medical exploration; book contains interesting explanations; relatives did well
Cons: inventor seems a little greedy; i am irredeemable

I'm writing this more because I feel pretty sure there's something to this diet than because I have directly benefitted from it or been failed by it. I actually received the book by accident in a shipment of other books back in 1997. The...

Pros: Well referenced, one of the rare diets that does more than help you lose weight.
Cons: Hard to cook for members of family with different blood types.

Except that most diet book readers want fast weight loss and not much else. This book/concept is different. You tend to eat with perhaps a greater sensitivity to what you have adapted to, via genetics, etc. In talking to people in my book store who were...

Pros: Well-researched, makes sense, easy to follow, diet in the sense of 'eating plan'
Cons: Should not be categorised with weight-loss diets. This is about healthy eating.

I had mixed feelings about this book until a friend persuaded me to give it a try. In fact it was the later book, 'Live Right 4 your type' that I read first; the 'Eat right..' book is now a little out of date as a great deal more research has been done,...

Pros: Works but not overnight!
Cons: Nothing works fast, not even this lifestyle change!

I bought this book about two years after the birth of my two daughters. Before my pregnancy, I weighed 143 lbs, and at 5'9", this was slim enough for me. I am a truck driver so I am muscular (muscle weighs more than fat.).
After my two daughters,...

Pros: Very informative book with very interesting information.
Cons: The diet for me was unrealistic.

I will outline the basics. What the book suggests is that all blood types are different and in order to achieve optimum health and maintain the proper weight you should eat a certain way in order to accommodate your bodies needs for your blood type. ...

Pros: I felt great and lost excess weight.
Cons: Hard to get used to, difficult for me to give up wheat.

Dr. Peter D'Adamo, the doctor who pioneered this "diet," was my mother physician and I also visited him a few times before his books were released. Not everyone interested in trying this diet will be fortunate enough to sit down with Dr. D'Adamo, but he...

Pros: Interesting Alternative to other diets
Cons: Limited information, too general, hard to follow.

This book is a very hot topic right now. Some say it's the greatest thing since, well, sliced bread, yet, there are others who think it's just another silly, overpriced, under-researched diet book.

I fall into the second category.
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Pros: It addresses individuality
Cons: Challenging to cook for a family

I first discovered this book about a year ago. I was browsing at Chapters a local bookstore.I love to spend time there finding out what's new.I had been searching for an answer to my weight problem. I was not convinced that the cookie cutter diets...