Blowing My Cover Hardback - 2004

by Lindsay Moran

From the author of the 2 million-copy Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type series-a library of books to help defeat eight of the most common conditions with the Blood Type Diet(r).Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo has forever changed the face of eating right to lose weight and achieve maximum health. He discovered what many already instinctively know: a diet plan that works for one person might make another ill. The Blood Type Diet(r) rejects the failed one-plan-fits-all approach in favor of individualized guidelines that take into account the many ways in which people differ.After writing books on cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and cardiovascular disease, Dr. D'Adamo adds two new volumes to his Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type Health Library. Focusing on fatigue and allergies (environmental and food allergies, as well as chronic sinus infections, asthma, and related conditions), these books offer new information individualized for blood types.In addition to the standard food categories of the Blood Type Diet(r)-Beneficial, Neutral, and Avoid-Dr. D'Adamo introduces a new category-Super Beneficial-which emphasizes foods that have medicinal properties to help fight disease.Self-assessment tests that help determine status and measure progress are included, as well as supplementary lifestyle and exercise protocols tailored to each blood type and each condition. There has never been a better arsenal for fighting disease, nor an easier or clearer tool.From the author of the 2 million-copy Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type series-a library of books to help defeat eight of the most common conditions with the Blood Type Diet(r).Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo has forever changed the face of eating right tolose weight and achieve maximum health. He discovered what many already instinctively know: a diet plan that works for one person might make another ill. The Blood Type Diet(r)rejects the failed oneplan-fits-all approach in favor of individualized guidelines that take into account the many ways in which people differ.After writing books on cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and cardiovascular disease, Dr. D'Adamo adds two new volumes to his Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type Health Library. Focusing on fatigue and allergies (environmental and food allergies, as well as chronic sinus infections, asthma, and related conditions), these books offer new information individualized for blood types.In addition to the standard food categories of the Blood Type Diet(r)-Beneficial, Neutral, and Avoid-Dr. D'Adamo introduces a new category-Super Beneficial-which emphasizes foods that have medicinal properties to help fight disease.Self-assessment tests that help determine status and measure progress are included, as well as supplementary lifestyle and exercise protocols tailored to each blood type and each condition. There has never been a better arsenal for fighting disease, nor an easier or clearer tool.A clever, funny memoir from a young woman who fulfills her MissionLindsay Moran was a bright-eyed, idealistic Harvard graduate who hoped to serve her patriotic duty while living a life she'd first dreamed of as a child watching James Bond movies and reading Harriet the Spy. After applying to the CIA and passing lie detector tests, background investigations, and psychological screenings, she soon found herself in training at the Farm, learning how to crash cars through barriers at a hundred miles an hour, not to mention how to withstand interrogation.But she was simultaneously learning that the life of a spy wasn't nearly the glamorous-not to mention principled-job she thought it would be. Her first posting, to Macedonia, confirmed it, as she witnessed firsthand the culture inside an organization whose intelligence failures led to tragic results during her own tenure. With a true story both thoughtful and funny, a wonderful new talent pulls open the doors to the CIA.