Eat Right 4 Your Baby

FROM THE PUBLISHER

From the Creator of the Blood Type Diet, with nearly three million Eat Right books in print, comes a new strategy for maximum health for you and your baby. Here you'll find Dr. Peter D'Adamo's blood-type-specific diet, exercise, and supplement prescriptions for fertility, prenatal care, pregnancy, nursing, postpartum, and the vital first year of a child's life.

Dr. D'Adamo's comprehensive plan provides information on the following. Anyone who is having a child is concerned about how to have a healthy baby. And anyone trying to conceive is concerned about roadblocks. From the New York Times-bestselling author of Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type comes a complete blood type plan for fertility, maximizing health during all stages of pregnancy and a baby's first year. Dr. Peter D'Adamo brings decades of research on the connection between blood type and health to this comprehensive guide to healthy pregnancy and childbirth. Now, for the first time, Dr. D'Adamo's revolutionary blood type diet has been customized for expectant parents and infants. In Eat Right 4 (for) Your Baby, you'll find out the most promising and problematic blood type combinations for getting pregnant and carrying to term, and you'll learn what you can do through diet, exercise, and supplements to increase fertility. You'll find out what to eat, how to exercise, what teas to drink, and which supplements to take during each trimester according to your blood type. You'll learn what beneficial foods to eat and exactly how much while nursing. You'll have a plan for introducing your newborn to the blood type diet, to give your baby the healthiest possible first year. You'll also discover the best strategies for getting back into shape.

Additionally, there are blood type guides for dealing with pregnancy's side effects. If you're feeling nauseated, for example, you can look up the section on morning sickness in the chapter on your blood type and read how to deal with it. If you have gestational diabetes or toxemia, you can find your blood type protocol for coping with it -- or preventing it. You'll be able to find an individualized blood type protocol for coping with or preventing any health problem related to your pregnancy. There are meal plans and recipes for mom at every stage, as well as formula and baby food recipes. The book is packed with success stories from patients who have tested the program, as well as food lists, supplement guides, and advice for dads.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

The author, a naturopathic doctor, follows his bestselling guide to healthy eating based on blood type (Eat Right for Your Type) with a program designed to provide optimal conditions for fertility as well as for pregnancy and childbirth. D'Adamo, with the collaboration of freelance writer Whitney, utilizes current genetic research to explain the chemical reaction between blood type and food. Someone, for example, with Type O blood who wants to conceive should eat a diet that includes beef or lamb, as proteins from these meats help to create a beneficial physical atmosphere for conception. A woman with Type A blood, however, in order to create the best conditions for conception, should eliminate meat from her diet and consume fish and seafood as her chief sources of protein. Divided into sections for blood Types O, A, B and AB, D'Adamo provides nutritional strategies, including recipes, concerning detailed advice on what foods to consume, avoid, and how frequently to eat. According to the author, following these guidelines will facilitate trouble-free pregnancies and childbirths. He also suggests exercises for before and after birth that are based on type. To best recover from childbirth, an AB woman should rely more on stretching exercises, while a Type O mother can engage more quickly in aerobics. Included also are nutritional plans, based on blood type, for the new baby. This is a very useful tool for new parents with a strong interest in alternative medicine. (Apr.) Illustrated Books Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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