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Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit (Signet) |  | Author: Adelle Davis
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 113552
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Upd
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0451155505
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780451155504
ASIN: 0451155505
Publication Date: September 1, 1970
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 I love this book January 10, 2010
meema (Melbourne FL)
Read it and keep it on your night table to read before going to sleep. It's wonderful.
The best nutrition expert of her time August 5, 2009
D. Mckinzie (Atoka, OK)
Adelle Davis fell from favor in the nutrition world after she got cancer and died. I've never understood that. Nutrition can help you have a better chance against cancer, but nothing has been found that will completely keep you from getting it. I still use this book and her other most popular one, Let's Get Well, to help me with understanding my nutrition needs. And I haven't found anyone currently writing that is so knowledgeable. There may be someone out there, but I haven't run across them yet. With Davis' books, I just look up whatever's bothering me and find out what to do. Hair falling out faster than normal? Try extra protein. Keep getting irritated eyes or styes on them? You may need more vitamin A (but might need to get it from Beta Carotin). After a long bout of "restless leg syndrome" I finally realized that I was low on magnesium, and sometimes on calcium. Davis would be the first to caution that you must be very careful, even with over-the-counter vitamins, but sometimes, you can avoid a doctor visit just by knowing what you're needing more of.
 This Book Has Saved My Health Over and Over Again April 5, 2009
C. J. Gillis (Fitchburg, WI United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having lived with Grande Mal Epilepsy, and the drugs that controlled it, I can attest that this book helped me to avoid loss of my teeth, and helped me to repair and cure the spontaneous bruising that plagued me for eleven years before I read this book.
Here, Adele Davis explained Linus Pauling's results in his study of vitamin C, long before "C" became the cure for bloody teeth and gums, and bruises. Although my own doctors were skeptical of Pauling's results for years, I used his results, quoted in this book, to cure and then prevent forever my drug side effects and frequent chest colds.
I have a vast English language vocabulary and enjoy writing and computer-based editing; but a lingering result of my past use of prescription drugs is that once in a while I now forget a common word, or its spelling. (I love computer spell-checkers!)
Soon after I swallow a tablet of B3, niacinamide, which I learned about in this book, the word pops back into my conscious memory, almost as if a link has been repaired in the language center of my brain, because these words don't get lost again; always different ones. ("Streusel" was the word that I lost and found today.)
I don't know how B3 works; but for me it always does. As experiments, I've avoided taking B3 for up to three days, (my limit for obsessive anxiety), without my memory for that lost word returning. When I then took B3, the lost word was suddenly "there" within the usual five to fifteen minutes.
When I was diagnosed with an early case of osteoporosis, and prescribed Fosamax, I figured that I might as well do a health "makeover", so I took at least 15 vitamins and minerals which Davis mentioned in this book for good bone, skin, hair, and nail health and repair, a high-protein, low calorie diet, plus running and physiotherapy exercise, which completely reversed my severe spine and hip bone damage within five months. I lost 54 lbs and looked 10-15 years younger afterwards.
I've lived a long and healthy life, in spite of my health problems, because I read and depended on this book. It might be outmoded today, as another writer said; but when patients and physicians were helpless to ameliorate the suffering that our absolutely necessary medical drugs caused us, I was helped by this book.
Great book with caution October 5, 2008
S. Barry
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was pioneering work when it came out. I bought it 35 years ago, and it changed my life by making me understand the importance of my diet on my health. I continue to find very useful information in this book and consult it often to find remedies for health issues. Much of the information is accurate and relevant today.
Two cautions I would give. First, be cautious with her recommendations on megadoses of vitamins. Used incorrectly, they can cause great harm. Second her information on oils is outdated. A better source is Udo Erasmus' book "Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill".
 Outdated and dangerous advice August 12, 2008
Alianor (England)
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
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.
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