Da Vinci Diet: Weight Loss Meets Da Vinci Code

If you read this book, you'll find that the food plan is comprised largely of scrapings from the bottom of the barrel.
This is almost as bad as the Blood Type Diet. As we say in the UK, what utter bollocks. I cannot believe (okay, I can)that something like this is being published. At what point in the manuscript-to-book process did someone forget to say, "Wait a minute... this is BEYOND LAME'?

What a joke.

The blood type diet is actually very believable. The people of today evolved from different indigenous groups with specialized diets according to what was available in their habitat. Thus, their bodies grew to be very tolerant of some foods and not others. The basic theory of the diet suggests that we evolved to reflect these food tolerances in our blood type.

It can be shown to be true in Asia, where most people are intolerant to dairy products and the predominant blood type is A; the diet states that those with blood type A should avoid dairy products as much as possible. There was also a very interesting study done where seaweed was fed to newborn children from France and Japan for the first time in their life. On average, the Japanese babies digested the seaweed 90% better than the French. This demonstrated that humans are predisposed to a greater digestive tolerance towards foods which are native to their culture. Evolutionary blood type dieting seems to be a good explanation for these results.

The diet also explains why some people who eat seemingly healthy foods often cannot seem to lose any weight, due to eating the wrong foods for their blood type. Eating the same foods while restricting the ones not suitable for their blood type often produces much better results.

Ben, you have a valid point, but there is more to it than merely blood type. It has to do largely with other genetic factors, such as liver enzyme production, pancreatic function, etc. Blood type is just incidental and in isolated populations, blood types do become similar over time due to the fact that only 4 alleles control all blood types. A diet based on blood type has about as much merit as one based on skin color. I'm waiting for that one to come out saying that blacks should eat couscous and bugs and that white people should eat fish and grain.

My understanding of the diet by Lanzalotta typically consists of 20 percent protein, 52 percent carbohydrates and 28 percent fat, with foods like bread or polenta, cheese, olives and braised chard or Italian coleslaw.

With this kind of glycemic load I can’t imaging how one could even maintain not to mention loose weight.

If there is calorie control, people could lose on it. I'm not a fan of this type of diet, but there are lots of people losing on WW and Slim Fast and lots of other carb-based diets out there.

I understand that it's probably not as simple as it's stated in the blood type diet. There are many differences on the surface of erythrocytes among people; blood type just corresponds to one antigen. There is also the Rhesus factor (which accounts for + or - blood types) and at least nine others which could influence how nutrients are handled upon digestion. It isn't even well understood what effect most of these genetic variations have on the body.

Blood type has a much greater chance of affecting one's diet than skin color, so I don't think that's an equal comparison. Skin color corresponds to varying degrees of melanin pigment which I doubt has any affect on digestion, as it is part of the integumentary system.

A person's blood type might merely reflect genetic variations which are the true reason why this diet works, not the blood type itself. However, I think the creator of this diet is on to something.

Ah... sorry for going off-topic here. About the Da Vanci diet, I think the author and his supporters are just trying to capitalize on the popularity of a completely unrelated medium. Sounds pretty scheming and pointless to me.

I'd like to know how I, Carumba can state an opinion without the book having yet been published. I am an intimate friend of the author and I can state emphatically that the man is not only a genius when it comes to the culinary arts, but an authentic one at that. I've read small passages from the book and can state for the record that what I read was well written, fascinating - balanced nicely with an amusing tone - and, depending on your views, compelling. I don't profess to know much about "proper" nutrition or weight-loss, but I do know without a shadow of a doubt - friend or no friend - that the man, and his food, are amazing.

Any diet that has you eating fewer calories than you usually eat will make you lose weight, plain and simple. In the case of the blood type diet, you eliminate/drastically reduce entire groups of food. In the DaVinci diet, you focus mainly on eating primitive/non-processed foods; with Atkins, you focus on not eating carbs, etc. It's all the same story...eat fewer calories than you expend and you will lose weight.

I'm getting a little tired of all the different ways people are trying to market their schemes to lose weight.

Give it a unique title and you can be certain there will be no shortage of people desperate to lose weight, ready to jump on board.

Several years ago, I discovered there is a basic diet that is ideal for everyone, that so far has not been talked about or published. It makes no difference if a person is Asian or white, from Africa or Europe.

It works whether someone is trying to lose, gain or maintain their weight. It provides optimal health and well being.

I have followed this diet regime for 3 years now with remarkable results. Friends have asked me to share it, so I may write a book about it sometime next year.

By reading the title of the book, it seems as if the book is written in French. Let me know if it is really a french book because I can't spend money buying a french book as I don't know French.

Well i never triend a diet in my life, and reading about these blood diet its sound very interesthing because my famaly usually tell me that i should stop eat because i going to get fat and its in my blood, because my grandmother is fat so i have the tendency to get overwaigth, but i never get fat.... and beleve me i eat a lat so i think that you should just keep a waigth that is nice, and that make you feel god.

byyy

The blood type diet seems to be really interesting and as i'm overweight i would defenitely give it a try.

WW is not carb based at all. Just calories, fat, and fiber. It is actually very healthy.

{Any diet that has you eating fewer calories than you usually eat will make you lose weight, plain and simple.}

Precisely.

The trouble with the atkins diet though is that it puts way too high levels of protein into your body which causes everything from, kidney problems to severe constipation. Not to mention the elevated levels of fat going into your body, and the decreased carbs (which your brain uses for energy.)

if people simply ate SMALLER portions and moved more they'd lose weight. There is no magic remedy.

You all seem to have valid points and perhaps more knowledge of nutrition than I do. I have read Atkins and South Beach and tried them both for about a week until I just couldn't take it anymore. I have also done a balanced 'Deal A Meal' approach, that really worked, until I got tired of having to measure all of my food. I have read the blood type diet, the heart healthy diet, and have recently finished reading the maker's diet (bases food choices on the old testament). I would agree that the general concensus is that most diet books are fad based and that one can lose weight by simply burning more calories than are consumed. This, however, must be balanced with nutrition. I heard once of a woman who lost weight by eating one fast food meal per day. Not the healthiest way to do it. If you have seen Supersize Me, we know how healthy fast food is.

As for The Diet Code, the packaging is very fad/gimmick oriented. It also serves the author's purpose by getting the masses into bread again. He is a baker for goodness sake! But all that aside, it sounds logical that one should be able to eat breads and meats and cheese and so on. I think that the author is sincere in his effort, even if they are mildly self serving. I think that one can lose weight and be healthy as long as three simple requirements are met.

First, the food needs to be wholesome and organic.
Second, the volume of food (calories) has to be right for one's body.
Third, one needs to be active.

The biggest problem today is diets approaching nutrition unilaterally. Be active, eat smaller portions of healthful foods, and avoid all of the processed garbage that is being sold today (i.e. sugar, white flour, overprocessed anything...which, in many cases is toxic and should be illegal to sell as foodstuff), and one should be healthy.

I listened to the DaVinci Diet Code CD's and got a little bored with his stories and he never really got down to the book until much later in the second CD. I think that this diet is full of interesting facts about the author but there is nothing about the golden ratio that has me convinced to try it.

I also brought and listen to DaVinci Diet Code CD's and didn't find weight loss plans recipes like here but it contains lot of information.

Mayra can you spelle?

Another money making scheme with very little science to back it up?