Guest guest Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 Hi Wayne, I am a big fan of Adelle Davis and thank you for the site. I think that she did a great job of bringing nutrition to the masses in the 1960s and 1970s. I bought some of her old paperback books awhile back and they are still great. She has been smeared ever since her death to discredit her work and the whole field of vitamins, etc. If she is mentioned today. The programmed comeback from the peanut gallery is " yeh, but she died of cancer " I guess implying that to substantiate her work on vitamins that a. she would have to live forever and b. She could not get cancer. I think that we should use the same criteria for the allopaths. We could do away with most of the damaging " chemo " for most disease treatment in our society. She worked mainly with and through allopathic doctors who would refer patients to her for a diet planning. She always tried to stress that allopathic means and nutrition should work together. I strongly suspect that that was her downfall if anything. I suspect that she turned herslf over to the allopaths for cancer treatment, received the standard ones, and died shortly thereafter. Do you know the history involved there? kind regards, Frank Gettingwell , Wayne Fugitt <wayne@f...> wrote: > Seems a few months back some mention was made of Adelle Davis. > > In case anyone missed this, from the Karl Loren site, a lot of Adelle Davis > information is available. > > http://www.karlloren.com/adelle-davis/toc.htm > > Wayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 The first health books I read about 27 years ago were hers. They were a good introduction to nutrition, and I should probably go back and read them. jp Hi Wayne, I am a big fan of Adelle Davis and thank you for the site. I think that she did a great job of bringing nutrition to the masses in the 1960s and 1970s. I bought some of her old paperback books awhile back and they are still great. She has been smeared ever since her death to discredit her work and the whole field of vitamins, etc. If she is mentioned today. The programmed comeback from the peanut gallery is " yeh, but she died of cancer " I guess implying that to substantiate her work on vitamins that a. she would have to live forever and b. She could not get cancer. I think that we should use the same criteria for the allopaths. We could do away with most of the damaging " chemo " for most disease treatment in our society. She worked mainly with and through allopathic doctors who would refer patients to her for a diet planning. She always tried to stress that allopathic means and nutrition should work together. I strongly suspect that that was her downfall if anything. I suspect that she turned herslf over to the allopaths for cancer treatment, received the standard ones, and died shortly thereafter. Do you know the history involved there? kind regards, Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2002 Report Share Posted December 23, 2002 Absolutely a fan! My first cook book in my " hippie days " was hers. I I still use one of the bread recipes from her book, and that's where I learned to make my own granola too. I don't know if she was right or wrong, I'm sure a bit of both, as all of us are. But I ate healthier and was introduced to a world of thought that was new to me then. Her books were easy to read, I thought, and she made nutrition much more interesting to us common folk. I still laugh at an anecdote in one book where she counseled a young man in college to eat a certain amount of liver to strenghten his system for upcoming finals. Apparently there was a typo, and instead of eating, for example, 1/2 pound of liver per day, her note said 2 pounds. And he did it. It's sad that her reputation suffered in later years, she was a ground-breaker and certainly had a wonderful heart for helping people. I wish I'd had the opportunity to meet her in person. Thanks for asking the question, it brought up some nice memories of a good period of time for me :-) CheriB -- In Gettingwell , " John Price " <jhprice@c...> wrote: > The first health books I read about 27 years ago were hers. > They were a good introduction to nutrition, and I should > probably go back and read them. > jp > > Hi Wayne, > > I am a big fan of Adelle Davis and thank you for the site. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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