Customer Reviews

Blood Type B Food, Beverage and Supplemental Lists

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So now that you've read Eat Right For Your Type and are familiar with the basic theories behind the blood type diets, you need a list that you can grab and take with you on those grocery shopping trips or for those dinners out where you may find menu items that you can't quite remember as either Recommended, Neutral, or Avoid. This is one of those pocket references that was made to be convenient for these situations if you happen to be a type B like most of my family.

(If you haven't read the abovementioned book first, you should. It explains in detail the hows and whys of eating according to one's blood type - O, A, B, or AB - instead of the dictates of popular trends. Foods are divided into three lists for each blood type: Highly Recommended (foods that have some great benefit or another and act almost as medicine in your system), Neutral (basics that are neither highly beneficial nor bad), or Avoid (foods that you should avoid, either because they have a bad effect on your blood type's metabolism, immune system, digestion, etc). But back to the review...)

The format of this list book is divided into convenient chapters that each represent a food group, such as Ch.1, Meats and Poultry, Ch. 2, Seafood, Ch.3, Eggs and Dairy, Ch.4, Fats and Oils, and so on until we have categorized every type of common edible into 14 sections altogether. Each chapter also has a brief introductory essay explaining a few highlights of the lists that follow, for instance, why certain healthy veggies such as tomatoes ended up on the Avoid list for type Bs and why Pineapple is on the Highly Recommended list. Most of the selections are not explained in detail however, so the reader must take these recommendations on faith. Also included are chapters on supplementation and medical strategies utilizing these lists.

Now several years have passed since the original publication of ERFYT and I have noticed when comparing the lists in it verses the lists in this more recent pocket reference that there are several discrepancies. For instance, salmon was a Neutral fish in ERFYT but it now ranked as Highly Beneficial. That could very well be because of the research that has been done after ERFYT which uncovered new benefits of salmon that were unknown before; I suspect several of these improved rankings have a similar explanation There are more examples from each chapter that I could go into. I can only trust that these changes are indeed the results of further research and not publication mistakes.

Bottom line, this is a very convenient reference to those of us who may have lent our copy of ERFYT to a friend after discovering the great personal freedom and physical well-being that comes with aligning one's diet with blood type. Get this one if you're a type B; otherwise get the one that matches your blood type.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle

After carrying around photocopied pages of blood type B's lists from "Eat Right for Your Type" in my purse for several years, I was thrilled to stumble across this little version! I've successfully followed this diet fairly strictly since January 1998, and I know it has helped mitigate my multiple sclerosis. I was initially attempting to lose a couple pounds, but instead my achy knees suddenly became completely better, the dry skin on my hands healed, and my back stopped aching. I didn't even initially attribute those events to the diet, so I know it wasn't a "placebo effect" sort of thing!

I'm thrilled to carry this pocket version of the diet in my purse now (along with my Bible!), so I can refer to it in restaurants instead of straggly old photocopies!

At first, I was a big skeptic of the whole "blood type diet". However, Dr. D'adamo's research on food allergies is quite persuasive. His recommendations are simple: be aware of food sensitivities. He's not like Atkins or the Duchess of York, trying to find a quick fix. He simply explains that insulin/blood sugar imbalances, which affect many people and lead to sugar cravings, are helped through including more or less of certain foods that interact with the antigens on one's blood cells. Peter D'Adamo, a naturopath, peppers his book with anthropological insights that are also interesting. His theories seems a bit contradictory in places: for example, he does not reconcile the fact that many Asians are Type B with the fact that Type B "benefits the most from milk products". In fact, his overly-enthusiastic endorsement of milk products, in the case of type B, seems a bit skewed to me, especially given some of the research on how milk can cheese can cause a lot of inflammation. The section on herbs/supplements for the blood types has really changed the way I use herbs, for the better. At only [money], this book a a great deal. Give blood (they tell you your blood type) and then grab one of these little books.

This little booklet is wonderful in that it has all the foods listed, but if you're a nonsecretor, you have to go on the website and look up all the foods to see which ones are different from the secretor values. Then you have to hand-edit your copy. Examples: For a secretor, blueberries are neutral, but for a non, they're highly beneficial. For a secretor, pumpkin is an avoid, but for a non, it's neutral (thank goodness!). That was one star off.
It lost another star for the price because of the print quality, which is not what it could be, some of the pages being blurred and somewhat difficult to read. (And yes, I checked my eyeglasses and ancient eyeballs before making this statement.)

Long story short. Informative and helpful. I noticed big changes in respitory and weight. I think it's great that you know exactly what foods act like medicine for you and what foods are poison for you. Makes shopping a whole lot easier and your not throwing money away on foods that are bad for you. You just now know. Big relief. Recommend.

My husband and I both live by this diet. We have found we have better energy, better digestion, and feel overall better everyday that we keep eating the foods that are right for our blood type. The books are completely understandable and if you think about your food is being transported by your blood it totally makes sense to us. I have used these books and these diets for over 2 yrs and my stomach aches have stopped, bloating stopped, and my skin looks better. Try it you have nothing to loose except all the things that make you feel lousy. J and E Ramos

I like this book because even though it's not an exact science, so to speak, it was worth purchasing because I had tried everything else for being healthy. This actually has some merit as my mother followed this book guidelines of food choices to a T and lost about 40 pounds so I decided to try it. I've lost 29 pounds in just over 2 months but have kind of plateaued. I was not exercising at the time because i wanted to see food changes first and wanted to know if eating healthier really affected ones weight, not just health in general. Granted, this may not work for skeptics because they are usually looking for a reason to fail instead of a reason to succeed.

While I find the concept of eating for your blood type intriguing, I was really disappointed in the quality of this guide book. The book is supposed to be specifically for those who, like me, have Type B blood. I found repeated instances where the tables would list a food as being one to avoid, then the text of the same segment would tell us to try is as an alternative. Can I have Barley or not? Is amaranth a good substitute for wheat or not? Specific questions posed to the website resulted in a generic email response telling me to check out the website. No answers were ever found. Pity they couldn't take a little more care about the people they supposedly are trying to help.

I bought this book because it was smaller than the original book "Eat right for your Type". I have been on this diet since May and it has changed my life! I highly recommend it. this supplemental list is lightweight and easy to carry with you to stores and restaurants so that you can know what foods to eat/order, and buy at grocery stores to help with your diet. It is also specific to your own blood type whereas the original book covers each blood type. Highly recommend!

This paperback is a very good version of the book Eat for your Blood type it can be used as a quick reference.