ABO Diet - Japanese Style

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ABO Diet - Japanese Style (August 16, 1998)

Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo's book, "Eat Right 4 Your Type" which details the link between ABO blood type and individualized diets, became one of the best sellers in the U. S. A. -- more than 500,000 copies are sold.  He opened his website: www.dadamo.com.  Japanese edition is available now.  The book was introduced by two major private TV stations here in Japan.  It is translated more than ten languages now.  Blood-type diet is seems to be very popular around the world.  Therefore I will explain about the "blood-type diet", Japanese style.

The name of the book above:
     Toshitaka Nomi (Type A) and Shoko Hamada (Type B)
     The newest ABO system diet "A method that loses weight with blood type"
     Published in 1984

This Japanese style diet focuses on the difference of personality (Dr. D'adamo advices us to care nutritions and foods suited for each blood types).  The following is the excerpts from the book.

Traits of Type O and advices for diet

[Traits of Type O]

Type-O people are most docile to the instinct to live, so they are interested in their health and beauty of themselves much. Therefore, if they give priority to health maintenance, they observe even the such things as diet and no smoking well.
Moreover, O's are honor students in a diet school, because they listen the advice of specialists frankly.
But O's are inappropriate to put restriction on the instinct desires like appetite, because they live and go along naturally. However, the concentration, achievement power are preeminent when they determine the goal.

[Advices to Type O]

• To make most of strong purpose orientation, make clear number goal such as "xx kg less! xx centimeter slimmer!"  Also O's should prepare the prize to themselves, at the time of goal achievement, to make diet more effective.
• O's are suited fors short-term concentration, not long-term one.  O's can't endure prolonged diet.  Type-O People who must reduce their weight substantially, they should divides the diet period into more than two stages, which is effective.
  However, patience is important, because O's give up diet easily if the result doesn't appear early.
• It is effective to buy high-price diet foods, because O's make efforts until they finally pays off.  Also it may be good to do yoga gymnastics together with the diet.

Traits of Type A and advices for diet

[Traits of Type A]

Type-A people are always concerned with their surroundings, and tend to control themselves by Type-A service mind.
Moreover, anxious nature and anxious traits from unique perfectionism, A's are easy to be crowded by stresses.  Sometimes, they eat impulsively from frustrations -- to make themselves fat.  A's are seems to be weak to diabetes, so young fatness is a powerful enemy.  Diet is not only for cosmetic reasons but also the measures against adult's diseases.  Please make most of Type-A perfectionism that does not give up until goal.
A's have many likes and dislikes of foods.  Especailly, A's seem to dislike foul-smelling foods, raw fish and raw meat.  They like plain taste.

[Advices to Type A]

• Because A's are most patient among all types, hard plans -- a little bit -- are possible.  Rather, it is anxious to become defective physical conditions and anorexia from going too much, from the stoicism that A's feels pleaseant to bear bitterness.
• Please do exercises if severe weight loss is required, because A's diet is easy to escalate.
• A's somtimes quit diet if they forget only one thing to do -- because they are perfectionists.  Don't haste and take it easy.

Traits of Type B and advices for diet

[Traits of Type B]

Type B's have strong gourmandism traits.  Please don't put on weight.  There are many such B's as to eat delicious foods voluminously....  B' are not interested in diet generally, although they become easily absorbed in, when they are once interested.  Enthusiastic B's research knowledges and information and became veterans soon.  There is no ploblem for plan implementation.  However, B's have perversity nature.  Sometimes they persist in self-taught diet and ignore the advice of specialists. B's are fond of salt, easy to take too much -- they like deep taste.  Also, theraputic methods are suited for Type B.

[Advices to Type B]

• It is wise to find a "strange" diet that stimulate B's interest, because they esteem independence and voluntary actions.  There is no ploblem for plan implementation, when B's are once intersted.
• B's are sometimes capricious.  Their diet depends on their feelings.  The diet becomes enthusiastic when their feelings are good, but negligent when bad.  It is necessary for Type B's to continue diet with variable plans.
• Pay attentions to not to do too much, because B's are tend to enjoy hard diet.  It is important to hear the advice from the specialists.   Self-complacency is no good.

Traits of Type AB and advices for diet

[Traits of Type AB]
Type AB's mottoes are "rational" and "take it easy."  Although they are good at health control, not diet -- AB's have strong gourmandism traits.   AB's are easily defeated to the temptation of foods, unless very attentive.  There are the traits of lacking stamina.  Rational diet plans are needed.
There are much likes and dislikes of foods.  AB's dislike raw foods very much and seem to like well-processed ones.  Also, AB's like eating between meals, and dishes of many kind at one time.  This may be a point for the diet menu.

[Advice to Type AB]

• Lack of stamina is the results of bad eating habits.   Make balanced diet, increase physical strength and slimness, at the same time.   Let's demonstrate AB's rationality.
• The sociable traits are the obstacle of diet.  Harden heart and be "unsociable" AB.
• AB's are good at taking advice from specialist. They implements nessesary plans and are good crirics.  But they sometimes don't continue.  Tenacity and Guts!

Appendix

　Indeed it is!  Also, I am not able to diet, because "easily defeated to the temptation of foods" ....

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