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| Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit. |  | Author: Adelle Davis
Publisher: Harcourt
Category: Book
Buy Used: £8.66
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1801759
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Pages: 334
ISBN: 0151503044
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780151503049
ASIN: 0151503044
Publication Date: June 1970
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 Outdated and dangerous advice August 12, 2008
I first came across Adelle Davis in the mid 1980s when I became interested in nutrition. I read her books avidly and put into practice many of her suggestions for cooking techniques and vitamin supplements. I was obsessed with my daily protein intake and learned to count the grams of protein I consumed each day. I took megadoses of vitamins in an attempt to cure minor ailments, including niacin supplements when I developed an intestinal bug -- this led to flushed, tingling skin which is one of the side-effects of an overdose of niacin. I took megadoses of Vitamin C whenever I was coming down with a cold -- this in itself caused stomach upset -- and megadoses of Vitamin A to treat acne. It didn't improve my skin and at a time when I was struggling to get by on a very low income I was spending a lot of money on supplements. Several years after I'd stopped taking Vitamin A I happened to separately meet two people who had themselves followed this advice to treat acne and had ended up with permanent liver damage (and permanently yellowed skin) as a result. With a sense of horror I realised how close I had come to seriously harming myself by self-dosing with vitamins which, when taken in megadoses, can become dangerous drugs.
I have since read more about the work of Adelle Davis. Several critics have pointed out that the references she supplies in her book often don't back up in claims -- in many cases she refers to published scientific literature that actually contradicts the claims she makes in her books. There are two well-known cases in which parents received out-of-court payments from Davis's estate: a 2-month-old baby died after his mother, following advice given in one of Davis's books, overdosed him with potassium chloride to treat "colic", and a young girl's growth was permanently stunted because her parents gave her megadoses of vitamins to keep her "healthy".
LIke most writers of her day, Davis was oblivious to the concept of "diseases of nutritional extravagance" such as heart disease, which are common in Western cultures where meat and dairy products form a large part of the diet. but rare in those societies which eat a plant-based diet. As a result she overstressed the need for protein, when in fact protein deficiency is virtually unknown where calorie intake is sufficient. Dairy products (which nature designed to support the rapid growth of baby cows) are unnecessary for humans (the only species to continue drinking milk, let alone the milk of another species, after the age of weaning). Adelle Davis claimed that she never knew anyone who drank a quart of milk a day to develop cancer -- but she had to stop making this claim after she herself developed cancer, from which she died at the age of 70.
If you are interested in nutrition and at all inclined to follow Davis's advice, please use extreme care and consult doctor or a qualified nutritionist first. At the very least, make sure you also read more up-to-date works on the latest discoveries in the field of nutrition, such as books by T. Colin Campbell, Caldwell Essylstyn, Dean Ornish or John McDougall.
 30 years using this guide February 24, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I raised my children on this book.
It's where I went first before consulting a doctor
and it always worked.
Foods and Vitamins are cheap compared to Doctor visits
and prescription and I wonder if this might be why
Doctors do not refer to this first, considering that
the author was a Doctor and did all her research using
AMA guidelines and protocol.
I used this for my own health and that of my husbands.
WAY OVER 5 STARS
This book is a great classic! July 25, 1998
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is my all time favorite book on nutrition. Adelle takes some complex ideas and explains them in simple, easy-to-read layman's terms.
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