Event: Dr. D'Adamo
to Speak in Norwich, CT Topic: "A Study Size of One: How personalization is revolutionizing medicine in general and nutrition in particular"
Event: D'Adamo
Personalized Nutrition™ Support Group (hosted by Nancy
Kuhn) Topic: "The Blood Type Diet in Private
Practice"
Event: Visit D'Adamo
Personalized Nutrition at the Health and Wellness Expo in Stamford,
CT!
A new approach to controlling bacterial infection involves interfering with the ability of one bacteria to communicate with another, thus making the biofilm unable to grow. I’ve been using an herbal combination at the clinic that seems to work well with anti-lectin (diet) therapy.
What are biofilms? Biofilms are essentially common slime. They can form on
any surface: rocks in ponds and streams, the plaque that forms on your teeth,
the gunk that clogs up your drains. Most bacteria require some sort of attachment
in order to infect. When bacteria adhere to some external object, most species
will begin to generate a biofilm, a blend of bacteria, sugars, proteins and bacterial
DNA. The persistent infection you got from a cut on your leg was probably a biofilm.
What effect do they have on health? Scientists estimate that 80% of bacterial infections involve biofilms. Infectious processes in which biofilms have been implicated include common problems such as sinus infections, urinary tract infections, catheter infections, middle-ear infections, and gingivitis. The sticky biofilm substance allows the harmful bacteria to stick together, build up, and grow; making the infections resistant to treatment.
In the past scientists have looked at bacteria as individual entities, not the
bacterial colonies held together by biofilm we have now learned that they are.
For example, you know that mouthwash kills “millions of germs on contact.” While
that might be true when looking at individual bacteria, the effect of
these treatments is severely limited when they are applied to real world environments
in which the microorganisms to be killed are actually members of a biofilm.
A new approach to controlling bacterial infection involves interfering with the ability of one bacteria to communicate with another, thus making the biofilm unable to grow. I’ve been using an herbal combination at the clinic that seems to work well with anti-lectin (diet) therapy. It’s
also interesting to note that stress seems to really impact biofilm formation,
so modulating noradrenaline levels in the gut makes sense
Dr. D'Adamo's Lectures: Lectins Explained
Confused about lectins? Listen as Dr. Nash and Dr. D’Adamo explain how lectins
interfere with your digestion and impact the functioning of your body. (Excerpted
from D’Adamo/Nash lecture at the Wilton Public Library in November 2009) (5:09)
Pre-Season Slim Down – Tips for Losing Weight Healthfully
Ann Quasarano
Here are some proven tips to help you reach
your goals.
Summer is just around the corner and many of us are getting serious about dropping
those few extra pounds that accumulated over the winter. Presumably, you will
be eating Right for Your Type, and emphasizing your beneficial and super-beneficial
foods, but here are a few additional tips to get you on the right track.
Eat Slowly and Mindfully - Sit at a table, not on your couch,
and never in front of the TV or in your car. Set your fork down between each
bite while you savor your food and swallow. Enjoy some dinner conversation, and
then have another bite. Practice a slower pace at meal time. So often we're pressed
into hurrying through meals by other responsibilities. Schedule meals so that
you have time to relax and enjoy your food. Stop half way through your meal,
drink some water, and ask yourself, "Am I full?" Just like changing any other
habit, learning to slow down at meal times takes practice and hard work.
Portion Control – The larger the plate or bowl, the more likely you will be to fill it up. Trade in those large plates for small, six inch dishes. When serving yourself, remember that a standard three ounce portion of meat, poultry, or fish, should be the size of a deck of cards. A one cup serving of vegetables is about the size of a tennis ball. If you’re eating out at a restaurant, order an appetizer as your main course along with a simple salad.
Watch out for Triggers – Are you an emotional eater? Do you
tend to crave foods when stressed? Most of us are overeating for a hundred different
reasons. We are eating due to boredom, irritation and frustration. When you start
to feel this way, step out into the open air and walk. The mini-blast of oxygen
will vanquish tiredness and mental exhaustion. Leave your worries behind and
be in the moment. Look at the birds. Be thankful. Let go, breathe deeply and
relax.
Keep a Food Diary – It’s simple, write down everything you eat and drink in a notebook or on your PDA. You may be surprised at how the calories add up. A food diary creates a conscious awareness of food intake and eating patterns – do you binge on carbs at the end of the day or generally “need” something sweet after lunch? By writing everything down, you have a sense of accountability for everything that passes your lips.
Join a Support Group – A big key in long term weight control comes from receiving encouragement and support from others. The community message boards on www.dadamo.com are a great resource and networking tool. There are Eat Right for Your Type groups springing up around the world – many can be found through social networking sites like Facebook. If you live in Connecticut, the D’Adamo
Personalized Nutrition Store holds a support group that meets monthly.
Exercise - In order for exercise to be helpful in weight loss, you should strive for a minimum of five 30 minute sessions of right for your type exercise per week. The good news is that recent research has shown that three 10 minute sessions in a day are as good as one 30 minute session. This helps many in combating the old "no time for exercise" excuse. Be certain to find something you enjoy. You'll be more apt to stick with it. Try walking with a friend, joining an intramural sports league, or trying some classes at your local gym. Once you give exercise a chance, you will begin to enjoy its positive benefits on your psyche as well; you will literally become "hooked."
Eat Breakfast - When you skip breakfast, your metabolic rate slows down and your blood sugar drops. As a result, you become hungry and have less energy. This sets you up to impulsively snack in the morning - often on high-fat sweets - or to eat extra servings or bigger portions at lunch or dinner. When you eat breakfast, your body feels nourished and satisfied, making you less likely to overeat the rest of the day.
Take Your Oils – Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA
Formula) reduces
fat and preserves muscle tissue. In studies CLA has been shown to decrease abdominal
fat and lower insulin resistance (particularly good for Gatherers and Warriors).
Happy May!
Martha D'Adamo
In many ways, we are our body’s “mother” and caretaker. It is important to remember to take a moment, breathe deeply, and thank yourself for the care and nourishment you provide yourself on a daily basis.
Is it just me or time is passing by much more rapidly than ever before? Days and weeks pass in what seems like a blink of the eye. I don’t know if it is just because I am getting older, or if it is because we have lots of great things happening at D’Adamo Personalized Nutrition/NAP. We are going into spring energized and excited with new projects, new opportunities and a déjà vu!
First the déjà vu…a number of years ago we had a product called Ocubright.
Excellent product that provided great support for the eyes. Due to what we thought
was lack of interest and some challenging raw material sourcing, we discontinued
it without recognizing the great devotion and love some of our customers had
for it. So, we are bringing it back with some minor formulation tweaks, and as
of May 1, it will be available on the website and through customer service. It
contains seven synergistic ingredients, including zinc, eyebright (Euprasia),
and lutein. Here’s
a link to some additional information.
Second, at the end of April, we participated in Vendor Day at the University
of Bridgeport School of Naturopathic Medicine. It was an invigorating day for
all of us as we met with the faculty and the students at the school. Nancy Kuhn,
our professional accounts manager (who many of you may know from customer service)
coordinated the booth and handouts for the students. Roseanne Nenninger, ND,
MIfHI, and the DPN professional sales development manager, presented case histories
and treatment protocols for ulcerative colitis, chronic yeast and malabsorption,
which provided a hands on approach to dealing with these troubling issues.
The growing awareness and interest in personalized medicine due to the Personalized
Medicine shift that Peter has been teaching has catalyzed a tremendous amount
of excitement and interest in the science and research about nutrigenomics. Over
the next few months, you will be hearing a lot more about the development of
the Center of Excellence in Nutrigenomics and Personalized Medicine.
Vendor Day at the University of Bridgeport School of Naturopathic
Medicine (left to right: Nancy Kuhn, Roseanne
Nenninger, ND, MIfHI, Martha
D'Adamo, Maura Henninger, NAP Student Rep
Third, Larry Nesbit, a Master-level educator in the Institute for Human Individuality
(IfHI), hosted a one day training and certification in Nashville, TN. Peter was
the featured speaker, and he shared new material on a wide range of issues, including
prenatal and familial imprinting, detoxification and hormonal balance and individualizing
exercise, stress reduction and anti-aging strategies.
Peter J. D'Adamo, ND, MIfHI, speaking
at the IfHI 2010 Micro-Conference, Nashville, TN, Friday, April 30th -
Saturday, May 1st
He was joined by Larry,
who shared so beautifully about his experiences on his journey to wellness and
the blood type diets, and Eric Morrison, another IfHI Master instructor, who
spoke about demystifiying the diet as well as the research behind the blood
type diet. The day was a tremendous success! Kudos to Larry and his team for
undertaking this regional certification, and for the tremendous work that went
into pulling this together.
IfHI 2010 Micro-Conference, Nashville,
TN, Friday, April 30th - Saturday, May 1st (left to right: Eric Morrison,
MIfHI, Peter J. D'Adamo, ND, MIfHI, and Larry Nesbit, MIfHI
I would be remiss as we go into May if I didn’t take a moment and acknowledge Mother’s Day. Underneath the hype of buying the cards and the flowers, the real opportunity of this day is to take the time to appreciate all the mothers in the world, whether they are our birth mother, adoptive mothers, mother-n-laws, grandmothers, mother-figures and mentors, mother-symbols and our Mother Earth. The mother-energy is nourishing and embracing, and I always visualize this as an invisible hand on my shoulder, gently guiding me in my life. I’ve been enormously blessed to have had my mother, Mary Mosko, who gave up a lot in order for her children to have what they needed. She managed a household of seven children, was extremely big-hearted, and had a wicked sense of humor. Life brought me two great mother-in-laws, Teresa and Christl, who’ve taught me about loving and about the D’Adamo men! And I am enormously grateful for my two daughters, Claudia and Emily, who continue to train me in the fine art of mothering. They have been the perfect guides on this journey, and they deserve a round of applause for their teaching skills and never-ending patience.
Happy May, and I hope you enjoy the rewards that come from taking care of yourselves. In many ways, we are our body’s “mother” and caretaker. It is important to remember to take a moment, breathe deeply, and thank yourself for the care and nourishment you provide yourself on a daily basis.
Martha
Feng Shui for Your Kitchen
Christine Bové
Keeping your cabinets, pantry, fruit bowls and fridge well stocked with healthy foods implies abundance, richness and even generosity
You’ve figured out what to eat, started your workout routine, and bought
new work out clothes, but what about the kitchen? The kitchen is the key
room to focus on when your goal is to get healthy or lose weight. Feng
Shui, the Chinese art of placement, is about understanding how our environment
influences our lives. The décor and arrangement of your kitchen may be
preventing you from your goal of getting healthy and losing weight. Take
a moment to reflect on your kitchen. What is the first word or feeling
you get? Is it positive, warming, and inviting or cluttered and cold? How
does it feel when you cook meals for you and your family? If you don’t
enjoy this room or the thought of entering the kitchen scares you, then
read on to learn ways you can create a healthy and functional kitchen.
The most important action you can take is to de-clutter your cabinets, fridge,
pantries, counter, and tabletops. Discard items that no longer serve you: old
spices, appliances, old expired supplements, and cookbooks. Items that no longer
serve you can be a negative reminder of what failed you in the past. Organized
cabinets and refrigerators help keep our check books organized and prevent
you from buying duplicate items you have but can’t see.
If the kitchen is the first room you see when entering the living space then try partitions, pictures or plants to avoid seeing food and feeling the need to eat all the time.
Adding beautiful, colored tablecloths or placemats is an easy fix to warming the space and to get your family to slow down and eat a meal together.
If you’re trying to lose weight, studies have shown eating off of blue plates suppresses the appetite. You can also use blue placemats or tablecloths, but blue is not recommended as wall colors in the kitchen.
Keeping your cabinets, pantry, fruit bowls, and fridge well stocked with
healthy foods implies abundance, richness, and even generosity.
Make a healthy recipe board on your fridge or a corkboard where you can keep
recipes from magazines to use as your weekly meal planner. If the recipe was
a success, put it in a recipe binder.
These simple changes will help you set up a kitchen that functions for you to
maintain a healthy lifestyle and enjoy cooking. Christine Bové is a certified
Feng Shui Expert and Fashion Feng Facilitator®.
“This time last year I was laid up in bed with zero energy with no prospects of becoming well. And now I am back in college, I practice the guitar, I am active, I exercise regularly and my cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure are all in the normal range.”
At 28 years old, Cheryl was overweight,
had high cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, polycystic ovaries and suffered
with alopecia, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, dark skin patches
and acne.
“I had joint and muscle pain, my life was a mess. I would leave work
and go directly to the ER or urgent care with abdominal pain. I had severe
fatigue and felt like a walking dead person. I dropped out of college because
I could not walk to classes.”
After being diagnosed with pre-diabetes, Cheryl was put on the drug Metaformine.
She found that she could not tolerate the drug and took a leap of faith
and reached out to a naturopathic doctor that she had heard about.
Dr. Melissa Bennett, of Norcross, Georgia, is certified through Dr. D’Adamo’s
Institute for Human Individuality and who recommends the blood type and
GenoType diets to her patients. Cheryl said that she was thrilled when
she heard about the Blood Type diet, “I was excited to try it because
I felt it sounded too good to be true.”
Dr. Bennett gave Cheryl a packet of information that instructed her to
add and eliminate foods from her diet each week.
“I liked that because I could tell the difference in how I felt.
When I ate the highly beneficial foods, I felt good. When I ate the wrong
foods, I felt bad.”
Once she started, Cheryl knew there was no going back to the way she ate
before and said that she had more energy and less stomach pain.
In the first five months that she was on the plan Cheryl lost 50 pounds.
A year into the program she says she continues to lose weight, but the
real benefit is in the way she feels.
“This time last year I was laid up in bed with zero energy with no
prospects of becoming well. And now I am back in college, I practice the
guitar, I am active, I exercise regularly and my cholesterol, blood sugar,
and blood pressure are all in the normal range. Most of my hormone levels
are in normal range and I have had a monthly menstrual cycle for five months
in a row for the first time in 10 years. “
Cheryl says that she, “wants to stand on top of the tallest building
and scream to the whole world how this diet changed my life and has helped
me turn into the person I always wanted to be.”
“I want to thank Dr. D’Adamo.” Cheryl says, “His
work has given me my life back.”
Crispy Kale Chips, Right
for All Types, is low in common allergens and lectins
and rich in glucosinolates!
These delicious and healthy morsels have become an obsession in our office. Right for all types and packed with nutrients, the roasting brings out a savory, nutty flavor. We bet you can’t eat just one!
Crispy Kale Chips
Ingredients:
1 Bunch Kale
Olive Oil Cooking Spray
Pinch Sea Salt
Directions:
Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.
Wash and dry Kale, cut leaves away from rib and cut leaves into chip sized pieces.
Line baking sheet with parchment or tin foil.
Spray Kale generously with olive oil spray and toss with salt.
Arrange in single layer, bake 20+ minutes until Kale is crispy.
Enjoy!
Note:
They do not stay well, they'll get soft, so cook what will be eaten right away.
Variations - Go nuts with spices, anything works well! Also great sprinkled with cheese or a cinnamon, agave, salt blends for sweet and salty!
Dr. D’Adamo will be a keynote speaker at the "1st Wellness Conference"
hosted by the International
Center for Integrated Therapy and Education (INCITE). He will
present his lecture, “A
Study Size of One: How personalization is revolutionizing medicine in general
and nutrition in particular” on Saturday, May 22, from 2-4pm.
A new group out of New York has just started up.
"We are interested in the Genotype and Blood Type diets as published by
Dr. Peter D'Adamo. We get together monthly in Manhattan for informal discussions.
Come on down: learn new information, talk the 'language', and share experiences!" NYC
Genotype Diet Group
And last but not least, this group is based in Los Angeles, CA Genotype
Diet
Right For Your Type Upcoming Events Calendar
D’Adamo Personalized Nutrition™ Support Group
Event: "D'Adamo Personalized Nutrition™ Support
Group" Topic: "The Blood Type Diet in Private Practice" Featuring: Dr. Roseanne Nenninger, ND When: Thursday, May 20, 2010 Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Hosted by: Nancy Kuhn Where: D'Adamo Personalized Nutrition™ Center, 213 Danbury
Road, Wilton, CT Admission: Free RSVP: Please call Nancy Kuhn at (877) 226-8973 or email her
at nancy@dadamo.com
International Center for Integrated Therapy & Education Lecture
Event: "Dr. Peter D'Adamo to Speak in Norwich, CT" Topic: "A Study Size of One: How personalization is revolutionizing
medicine in general and nutrition in particular" When: Saturday, May 22, 2010 Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: Norwich Technical High School Auditorium, 7 Mahan
Drive, Norwich, CT
(See above announcement in Right For Your Type News for details.)
Health & Wellness Expo 2010
Event: Visit D'Adamo Personalized Nutrition at the Health
and Wellness Expo in Stamford, CT! We will be at table #5 When: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Time: 5:30 pm - 9:00 Hosted by: The Greenwich Young Professionals Group Where: Hilton Stamford Hotel, One First Stamford
Place, Stamford, CT Admission: Purchase tickets online: Ticket
Information For more information:www.greenwichypg.com
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