Adam and Eve Diet

Adam and Eve Diet

Your Functional Biotype Guide

Roderick Lane & Sarah Stacey

The Unique Diet that’s Biologically Tailor-made for your Shape

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Acknowledgements

From Roderick Lane

My thanks go, first and foremost, to my co-author for her patience! To our agent Kay McCauley for her unfailing support. To my colleagues Deborah Eagle and Marion Kirkham at the Naturopathic College for their insights, and to Helen Cartier-Knox and Stephanie Wright for their inspirational work and explanation for the spinal function. To each one of my patients, and also Richard Day, Irene Campden and all my colleagues at Windsor who provided working examples of the different biotypes. To Paul Jayne for being my research assistant. Finally, to all the teachers I have ever had for their knowledge, which laid the foundation stones upon which this system is built.

From Sarah Stacey

Thanks to Rod for bringing me his knowledge, which for the first time gave me a real explanation of the way our bodies work and helped me to be fighting fit (not to speak of allowing me to eat eggs and bacon for breakfast). To Rowena Webb, Kerry Hood, Emma Heyworth-Dunn and the rest of the team at Hodder Mobius – and also to our copy editor Karen Sullivan – for their extreme niceness. To Martin Welch for being a star illustrator, and to Lynda Brown, Leigh Richmond and Jane Phillimore for their generous help. And to Kay McCauley as ever for her endless empathy.

About the Authors

Roderick Lane’s interest in natural medicine was sparked by his mother, a hospital matron who took an unconventional line with patients – opting for natural remedies rather than drugs. He went on to study Chinese medicine as part of his Martial Arts training in the 1970s.

Roderick was lecturer in Clinical Nutrition at Howell College from 1990 to 1993 and Secretary of the National Guild of Clinical Nutritionists from 1988 to 1992. He also co-founded the London College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Science in 1992, and has since filled the post of Registrar of the College and lectures in Clinical Nutrition and Protocol.

Now in private practice in London, he holds Diplomas in Naturopathy, Clinical Nutrition and Holistic Health.

Sarah Stacey is an award-winning journalist specialising in health, beauty and gardening, a TV producer and bestselling author. She is currently Wellbeing Editor on the Mail on Sunday YOU magazine.

She has worked on most of the leading UK newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and The Sunday Times. She has also been Beauty and Health Editor on the Telegraph magazine, Executive Health and Beauty Editor on the Daily Express and Health Editor on Harpers & Queen.

Sarah was elected first Honorary Chair of the Guild of Health Writers in 1994 and in 1997 co-founded the Food Labelling Agenda (FLAG).

Sarah has extensive experience of local, national and international radio and television broadcasting, and has reported for the BBC’s Watchdog. She is co-author of The Beauty Bible series and Feel Fabulous Forever.

Praise for the Adam and Eve Diet

Terence Stamp, actor:

‘I wish Roderick Lane’s system had been around in 1968 when I was taking tentative steps to heal myself. His insights on diet and nutrition are some of the most relevant I have discovered. In a world where we are beginning to understand that each one of us should take responsibility for our own health, this book is a sound step in the right direction.’

Dr Robert Cass, naturopathic physician and chiropractor, Atlanta Georgia:

‘Dr Roderick Lane’s contribution to the overwhelming and often confusing volumes of information in the field of clinical nutrition comes as a very welcome breath of fresh air. His clear and specific approach cuts through the complexities of this powerfully emerging science with suggestions and protocols that are revealing of Dr Lane’s many years of successful practice. This work will quickly feature high in the list of must have books on the healing arts, in professional and public libraries alike. Dr Lane is to be congratulated for this great addition to the information base.’

Kenneth Fish, DC, Director, The Wellsprings Clinic, Maryland:

‘I first spoke with Dr Lane in 1996, when he was kind enough to consult with me regarding nutritional support for Lupus patients. Dr Lane has exceptional insight into the endocrine and nutritional aspects of health and healing, and I have turned to him for advice in treating some of my more difficult cases.

I have personally followed Dr Lane’s advice for my own health problems. As a result, my weight is now under control, I have more energy and feel better than I have in years. I highly recommend him to readers everywhere who may have tried other nutritional approaches without success. This may well be the key to your better health and quality of life.’

Jane Upton, 42, management consultant:

‘I feel passionately supportive of this nutritional system because I felt so dreadful when I first went to Roderick Lane in 1994. I had been tired and generally unwell for a long time but my doctor had just said it was stress. Roderick said that I had a sugar problem and prescribed a diet to help. I got better little by little but today I am very fit and I have a greater understanding about my body and the way it works and what it needs.’

Janie Romer, 45, singer-songwriter and mother of two:

‘After a misspent youth I had two children and turned into an earth mother. After five years my body was exhausted and I could barely walk upstairs. Within three days of going on Roderick Lane’s diet, and taking the supplements he suggested, I remembered what it was like to be more alive. After a few weeks, I had whittled down a dress size and I had so much more energy. I began to exercise again and I could run from A to B instead of dragging myself. Ending the cycle of exhaustion and craving (and the guilt that goes with that) opens so many doors in life. I understood that I didn’t need to starve myself to be well and slim, just to eat the right foods. This is not another silly fad diet – it is the key to being healthy.’

Adam and Eve Diet

by Roderick Lane and Sarah Stacey

Copyright © 2014 Roderick Lane and Sarah Stacey

Published jointly by Roderick Lane

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Identifying your Functional Biotype

Chapter 2: The Functional Biotype Diets

Chapter 3: The Effects of Stress: Detecting and Correcting Stress Weaknesses

Chapter 4: Digestion, Food Intolerances and the Chew, Chew Cult

Chapter 5: Desperate Measures: The Seven-Day Weight-Loss Plan

Chapter 6: Get Juicing

Chapter 7: Relaxation

Chapter 8: Kitchen Medicine

Chapter 9: The Food File

The Directory

Useful Websites

Recommended Reading

Introduction

How the Adam and Eve Diet began

If you are perfectly happy with your size and shape, have boundless energy and a clear head, sleep soundly every night, never suffer from nagging illnesses and feel on top of the world most days, you probably don’t need this book. If, however, you want to look and feel better, the Adam and Eve Diet can make a dramatic difference to your daily life.

You probably picked up this book because you want to lose weight – like most people in the Western world. According to recent research, nine out of 10 of us have been on a diet at some point in our lives, and this very moment half of the people around us are trying to become thinner. The fact that the incidence of obesity, type 2 diabetes and other obesity-related illnesses are rising and predicted to take up ever-increasing amounts of Western healthcare issues and budgets suggests that most of us are on diets that are not working.

Every new diet offers a new promise, and we ricochet from one to another in the vain hope of finding a regime that will solve our problems. Ultimately, we all want the same thing from food – we want to enjoy it, eat what we want when we want, derive increased health, wellbeing and vitality both physically and mentally, and, of course, not get fat!

The sad truth is that the majority of diets don’t work. This is because many are based upon ‘fad’ and deprivation principles; they require you to drop your calories to an unrealistic level, which cannot be maintained long term. You almost certainly won’t enjoy your food, you won’t feel well and, even if you do lose some weight, you are unlikely to keep it off. Research shows that most people not only put back the weight they lose, but they gain more. This is because constant dieting or on/off dieting causes the metabolism to slow down. When you return to eating normally the body has learned to ‘hold on’ to any food it gets and store it as fat against the next period of deprivation. The longer the cycle continues in this way, the harder it becomes to lose weight.

The key principle behind the Adam and Eve Diet is that of Functional Bio-Typing; that is, one size does not fit all, one diet will not suit everybody. Man is an adaptive animal, constantly changing and adapting to his environment. What suits an Eskimo will not work for a South Sea Islander in a tropical paradise. What is it that your physiology works best on to achieve and maintain optimum health? The Adam and Eve Diet takes your differences into account and allows you to understand what will work for you. Current neuroscience principles recognise that it takes around 28 days to make and establish new brain pathways when we adopt new habits. The Adam and Eve Diet works so that you incorporate the principles of your biotype into your daily living. You see the benefits of increased health and vitality, as well as weight loss and successful weight maintenance, allowing you to develop healthy new long-term habits. Note – a sustainable exercise routine is always beneficial in supporting any weight loss diet and we will give you some tips in this book.

The Adam and Eve Diet is different. It works.

What the Adam and Eve Diet can do for you

You’ll…

find your perfect natural weight

feel full of energy

have increased ability to exercise

have increased ability to concentrate

have a more efficient immune system

never feel hungry

beat many chronic health problems, including insomnia, bloating, food intolerances, fluctuating blood sugar problems and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

feel more confident

enjoy increased resilience

enjoy life

feel empowered because you have been able to successfully incorporate new, beneficial habits into your life.

Why does the Adam and Eve Diet work?

This revolutionary diet works because it pinpoints your individual biological type. This may sound confusing but it’s quite straightforward. Your biological (bio) type is determined by the glandular biochemistry that has been handed down to you across generations, through evolution.

There are two fundamental factors underlying this naturopathic approach – one is ancient, the other modern. First of all, medical scientists are increasingly aware that human beings are still governed by the biological traits we developed many millions of years ago, despite living in the 21st century. These are crucial to our whole make-up: physical, mental and psychological. Secondly, accompanying this legacy we have to deal with the impact of modern life – another shooting match of physical, mental and psychological pressures. The Adam and Eve Diet was developed over many years by Roderick Lane. During his study of nutrition he found that the concept of body typing appeared in many ancient and traditional medical systems, including Ayurveda (from India) and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). But far from developing a common prototype, these systems all appeared to focus on different factors, through which constitutional types were identified.

In his own clinical practice, Lane began to notice that different clients responded to different diets and to specific nutrient combinations. Clients also fell into distinct patterns which he christened their ‘Functional Biotype’. Eventually, he identified and named five Biotypes, based on a person’s dominant gland (see panel below). Functional Biotypes are confirmed when the body becomes fully formed at puberty, which is interestingly, also the time at which we are at our physical peak. In Chapter 1, you can identify your own Functional Biotype by answering the questionnaires.

The five Functional Biotypes

Lane concluded that the five Functional Biotypes evolved in response to the needs of early man. And those needs were all geared towards one thing: survival. Over the millennia, during which mankind evolved to its present state, there was a continuous cycle of adaptation that continues today. Just as the wily and competitive Cro Magnon pushed out the Neanderthals, another genetic mutation, the Homo sapiens, evolved between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago in response to the need to stay alive in different climates and terrains. We now know that our ancestors did not live in isolation, that different species of early man interbred and as the years pass representative samples of early humanity are found to have lived and walked upon the planet earlier and earlier than previously believed.

Lane hypothesises that the first anatomically modern Homo sapiens were ‘Hunter-Gatherer’ types, and that today’s Hunter Gatherers are the descendants of the people who first walked out of prehistoric Africa to populate the world. As you will discover in Chapter 1, these Functional Biotypes are admirably designed to roam for long distances, hunting and gathering their food as they go.

‘Pathfinders’, the tallest of the Functional Biotypes, probably came next, then Pioneers, Farmer Gardeners and Dancers the most modern in evolutionary terms. Along with their physical characteristics, these Functional Biotypes also developed personality traits that enabled them to adapt, and many of these are still evident today.

However, in the 21st century we are not only the product of evolution. We are also hugely influenced by the pressures of modern living and increasingly abnormal sleep patterns as the ’24-hour’ day becomes more and more prevalent. Chronic stress is increasingly recognised as a growing problem with health and wellbeing implications. Technological advances also produce their own challenges in terms of removing established boundaries at the beginning and end of the working day and feeling pressured to constantly stay connected to others. In the Western world we don’t have to fight for enough to eat (in fact the reverse situation exists), but if you ask people how they feel you are unlikely to get a positive response. Sure, you’ll find a few people who claim to feel very healthy and happy most of the time, but we bet that most people will say that they are anxious, tired, lacking in energy, and suffering from a chronic state of stress, anxiety, feeling a degree (and often several degrees) under par. Try it, and ask yourself, too. How do you feel?

Stress can place an intolerable strain on many areas of your body, including your glands, and many of the niggling (and not-so-niggling) health problems experienced by the majority of the population are either caused or exacerbated by stress.

You can identify your own individual Stress Weakness Points by answering the detailed checklists in Chapter 3, and correct them by making lifestyle changes, and taking specific supplements, herbs and homeopathic remedies.

Because each of us is unique, it is impossible to say how long it will take to put things right, but you will begin to experience a relief of symptoms as the root problems are slowly addressed. If you’ve had a problem for a long time, it will take longer to correct than something less deep-seated, but the good news is that almost everything can be improved by following a few simple guidelines. If you suspect that you have a serious health condition, we advise you to consult your GP or qualified health professional immediately.

Why the Adam and Eve Diet is revolutionary

Big claims are made for every new diet, but we believe that the Adam and Eve Diet is revolutionary. There has never, to our knowledge, been a diet that combines wisdom from both modern Western medical knowledge and the traditional healthcare systems of the East.

The theory of this diet is simply common sense. By identifying and eating the foods that suit your specific body type, and by correcting your Stress Weaknesses, you can achieve your perfect natural weight and experience a renewed energy and zest for life.

The Biotype theory also explains a conundrum that has been foxing experts – and dieters – for decades. This is the fact that some diets undoubtedly do work for some people, while they are completely ineffective for others. The explanation is that it depends on your Functional Biotype. If you have, by chance, happened on the diet that is optimally suited to your Functional Biotype, it will work for you (at least to some extent).

The Adam and Eve Diet takes the guesswork out of dieting. By filling in the questionnaires and identifying your Biotype and Stress Weaknesses, you can pinpoint exactly the right diet for you. What’s more, if you think diets are about eating nothing and feeling deprived, you’ll be delighted to find that this diet is the exception. The Adam and Eve Diet is about eating delicious food, losing weight and feeling fantastic. It’s certainly not about feeling hungry – in fact the keyword is indulgence, not penance. The aim of the Adam and Eve Diet is to allow you to reach a state of optimum health and vitality – and keep you there. It works for everyone, whatever your age or state of fitness.

The naturopathic approach

The Adam and Eve Diet is based on the naturopathic philosophy that the body will always reach towards a state of health,