The following excerpt is taken from the book just an ounce of PREVENTION … is worth a pound of CURE: A Modern Guide to Healthful Living from the Originator of the Blood-Type Diet, by Dr. James L. D'Adamo with Allan Richards. It is published by Hay House (April 15, 2010) and available at all bookstores or online at: www.hayhouse.com.

Fight Disease with Food

Overcoming chronic illness through your diet.

By Dr. James D'Adamo

Published: April 19, 2010

Nature’s most reliable guide to health.

When I started my practice in the 1950s, I couldn’t even suggest, as I do today, that I could help patients suffering with cancer overcome it through diet—even though it’s largely a food-associated disease. Today, there is a different climate in terms of health care in America. However, the American health system is deeply troubled. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity account for more than 70 percent of U.S. health-care costs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Yet those who suffer from these diseases receive only about 50 percent of the recommended preventive care. One out of every four deaths in the United States is due to cancer. Over 65 percent of Americans are overweight; and the CDC estimates that obesity causes more than 112,000 deaths a year and is at the root of other conditions including diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, respiratory problems, depression, and gynecological complications, including infertility.

Yet I believe—I know—that cancer and these chronic conditions are preventable, and if these diseases were prevented or treated using my research and work in blood types, we could save well over $100 billion a year in health-care spending.

Today the powerful pharmaceutical companies still manage to get their drugs to the marketplace—many that have long lists of serious side effects or have not been tested long enough and are harmful to the body. (For example, Vioxx, a medication for arthritis, led to approximately 30,000 cardiac deaths before it was pulled from the market in 2004.)

James L. D’Adamo, N.D., D.N.B., is releasing his latest book—Just an Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure—this week. The originator of the Blood Type Diet, Dr. D’Adamo is the founder and director of the D’Adamo Institute for the Advancement of Natural Therapies. Fifty years ago, Dr. D’Adamo made a discovery that would revolutionize natural medicine by establishing a correlation between a person’s blood type and their dietary requirements, physical exercises, inherent strengths and weaknesses, and what assets and liabilities one was given at birth. Dr D’Adamo speaks with Write On! about health, health writing, and his latest book.

Why did you write Just an Ounce of Prevention?
I decided to write Just an Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure because I had more than a decade of new research and new discoveries to share with the public and old and new patients.

Healing is an art, an evolving art, and there is always something new to learn, explore, discover, and share. My passion for healing, my respect and fascination with the way Nature works to heal and rebalance the body, keeps me actively engaged. I’ve been treating people for over 50 years—and I wanted to describe new ideas I had discovered in terms of blood types, sub-blood types, and nutrition. I constantly work to fine tune my approach to healing—and to preventing disease.

In what way was the experience similar to/different than writing your first book?
When I wrote my first book, One Man’s Food-Is Someone Else’s Poison, I described my use of blood types and nutrition and the importance of individualized treatment. But that was back in 1980 when America’s health movement was still very young. Thirty years later, people are more aware of the importance of eating healthily, yet it is still not emphasized enough—and it wasn’t part of the health care legislation.

By Jeanné McCartin
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April 18, 2010 9:05 AM

It's not that he had it wrong the first time, says Dr. James L. D'Adamo. It's just that 50 years of experience taught him there's more to the story.

And so the man famous for originating The Blood Type Diet®® is adding to its story with "Just an Ounce of Prevention ... is Worth a Pound of Cure," his latest book on taking control of — and responsibility for — your health.

The book, released April 15 by Hay House Publishers, helps identify an optimum approach for each person, child and adult, offers a food and exercise plan based on blood type, includes recipes and is unlike any other publication on the subject, says D'Adamo, N.D., D.N.B, director of the Institute for the Advancement of Natural Therapies.