Dietary treatment for over 300 illnesses based on each of the Human Blood Types. . - Book Corners - reviews of: "Eat Right 4 Your Type: Complete Blood Type Encyclopedia" and "The A-Z Reference Guide for the Blood Type Connection to Symptoms, Disease, Conditions, Vitamins, Supplements, Herbs and Food" - book review

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, May, 2002 by Morton Walker

Eat Right 4 Your Type -- Complete Blood Type Encyclopedia

The A-Z Reference Guide for the Blood Type Connection to Symptoms, Disease, Conditions, Vitamins, Supplements, Herbs and Food

Peter J. D'Adamo, ND, with medical journalist Catherine Whitney

Published by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin/Putnam's Berkley Publishing Group

375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 USA, Quality paperback, 585 pp., copyright 2002, ISBN 1-57322-920-2 retailing at $25 in the US and $36 in Canada.

Currently treating patients at his Stamford, Connecticut clinic, coincidentally located just one city block from the podiatric medical practice I had discontinued three decades before, Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo has become an eminent naturopathic physician and researcher with a wide international reputation. I still recall eight years ago when Dr. D'Adamo and his business agent negotiated with me concerning Eat Right 4 Your Type, Peter D'Adamo's first of four subsequent publications. The D'Adamo agent's decision was that my writing services were too expensive for his clinic's risky book-writing undertaking, and the two of them broke off our discussions to find another professional bookwriting collaborator. They eventually chose the medical coauthorship team of Catherine Whitney and Paul Krafin.

Now I regret having refused to lower my quoted writing fee and our shared rate of royalty. Why? Because Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer and Achieving Your Ideal Weight (Putnam Publishing Corporation, 1996) has gone on to sell multimillions of copies, and it's now available worldwide in over fifty languages. That first book is consistently on bestseller lists almost six years since its publication. In 1999 this title was named one of the ten most influential health books ever published.

Colleagues at the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians selected him to be the "1990 Physician of the Year," and Dr. D'Adamo has been cited as being among the most intriguing health authors ever to appear before medical consumers. I recently heard him lecture at the semi-annual meeting of the American College for Advancement in Medicine and concluded that Peter J. D'Adamo, ND, is a truly dynamic health educator who definitely has a message of medical significance.

The D'Adamo message culminates in this fourth and most recent publication of his, Eat Right 4 Your Type Complete Blood Type Encyclopedia: The A-Z Reference Guide for the Blood Type Connection to Symptoms, Disease Conditions, Vitamins, Supplements, Herbs and Food. This famous naturopath's two additional books are Cook Right 4 Your Type (1999) and Live Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Prescription for Maximizing Health, Metabolism, and Vitality in Every Stage of Your Life (2001), all written with his established chief collaborator, Catherine Whitney, a coauthor of other books on health and medicine.

Dividing the Eat Right 4 Your Type Complete Blood Type Encyclopedia into three parts, Dr. D'Adamo discusses the various blood types and their effect on individual body chemistries. He shows that certain health conditions -- over 300 of them -- are more efficiently treated by following his A to Z Reference Guide for the patient's blood type connection.

Part One of this quality paperback goes into the four foundations which fully relate to our human ABO blood groups. The four chapters of this first section include detailed information about (1) the ABO Blood Group anthropological beginnings, (2) the evolution of blood group science, (3) the biological significance of ABO Blood Groups, and (4) the recognized ABO Gene labeled with the identifying locus number 9q34.

Dr. Peter D'Adamo shares credit for the underpinnings of his ABO Blood Group dietary classifications with James D'Adamo, ND, his father, who first advanced his theory in the 1960s that these blood types could be employed to optimize diet. Working diligently for over 20 years, the son has verified his father's initial findings of ABO blood groups plus their involvement with diet. Peter D'Adamo, ND, has demonstrated the scientific basis for these findings.

A-Z Blood Group Guide to Health and Medical Conditions

Comprised of 585 pages, this fourth book continues development of the D'Adamo ground-breaking approach to analyzing and treating disease by compiling ten databases, including patient outcomes, food reactivity, protein allergens, therapeutic cooking recipes, and more. Many of these databases are searchable on Dr. D'Adamo's website (www.dadamo.com) which also includes other useful databases besides those present in the Encyclopedia. A 20-year effort by the naturopath resulted in identifying all relevant Medline studies that support and shed further light on the genetic link between blood type and disease.

The newly published Encyclopedia is intended to be useful in daily clinical practice by providing both information as well as insight into over 300 conditions. Atypical encyclopedia entry includes: an up-to-date description of the conditions, symptoms, blood group relationship, conventional therapies, and treatments directed toward individual bloodtypes. Dr. D'Adamo acknowledges Bronner Handwerger, ND, director of the D'Adamo Clinic, as having medical insights and research abilities which assisted him in building the Encyclopedia entries and databases.