>  However, for me, too much of any grain
>seems to induce heartburn and another problem I can't remember the name of,
>but it amounts to the valve on the top of your stomach not staying closed
>when you are laying down.  (It's no fun to wake up to.)

I too have that problem, with me they called it a deficient cardiac
sphincter, and it was diagnosed when I was 6. With that and the celiac
disease I threw up everything I ate until I was about 8...Since quitting the
grains ( I was diagnosed celiac 2 years ago after a BIG fight with the
medical profession!) both it and my appalling heartburn finally went away.
>
 But I do find it interesting that you lost plenty of
>weight while eating lots of rice.  Is the D'Adamo diet a
>caloric-restriction diet?  Were you calorically-deficient while you were
>losing the weight?
>

>The D'Adamo O type diet is not really calorically restricted. It allows
unlimited meat and fish (particularly lean red meat and liver, no pork, duck
or goose), most vegetables (no potatoes, eggplant, cabbage), fruit (no
oranges, melon), nuts (except coconut and peanuts)  very limited dairy (only
small amounts of goat cheese). It excludes grains (except rice, quinoa and I
think millet), processed sugars, beans, vinegar, caffeine and a few other
things. I found it very easy to follow and it definitely suited my
metabolism. When I say I ate a lot of rice, it probably only averaged a cup
a day, but that is still a lot of carbs compared to Atkins and I presume,
Neanderthin ( I still dont have the book). It still probably represents
fewer calories than a regular "balanced" western diet.

Cheers

Amanda
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