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| The Legacy of Adelle Davis, 4/12/2008 |
| The Legacy of Adelle Davis The Legacy of Adelle Davis Adelle Davis (1904-1974) was the first "health authority" among modern food faddists who had any formal professional background. She was trained in dietetics and nutrition at the University of California at Berkeley, and got an M.S. degree in biochemistry from the University of Southern California in 1938. Despite this training, she promoted hundreds of nutritional tidbits and theories that were unfounded. At the 1969 White House Conference on Food and Nutrition, the panel on deception and misinformation agreed that Davis was probably the most damaging source of false nutrition information in the nation. Most of her ideas were harmless unless carried to extremes, but some were very dangerous. For example, she recommended magnesium as a treatment for epilepsy, potassium chloride for certain patients with kidney disease, and megadoses of vitamins A and D for other conditions. In 1971, a 4-year-old victim of Davis's advice was hospitalized at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. The child appeared pale and chronically ill. She was having diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and loss of hair. Her liver and spleen were enlarged, and other signs suggested she had a brain tumor. Her mother, "a food faddist who read Adelle Davis religiously," had been giving her large doses of vitamins A and D plus calcium lactate. Fortunately, when these supplements were stopped, the little girl's condition improved. Little Eliza Young was not so fortunate. During her first year of life she was given "generous amounts" of vitamin A as recommended in Let's Have Healthy Children (1951). As a result, according to the suit filed in 1971 against Davis and her publisher, Eliza's growth was permanently stunted. The estate of Adelle Davis settled in 1976 for $150,000. Adelle Davis used to say that she never saw anyone get cancer who drank a quart of milk daily, as she did. She stopped saying that when she died of cancer in 1974, leaving behind her a trail of ten million books and a following that was large, devoted, and misinformed. Young JH, Obituary of Adelle Davis. In Notable American Women: The Modern Period. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press (Harvard University Press), 1980. Adelle Davis's books on nutrition: Commentary by Edward H. Rynearson, M.D. Medical Insight, July/Aug 1973, pp 32-34. Schectman G. Adelle Davis and atherosclerosis: An in-depth critique. Aug 1974.
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| The Legacy of Adelle Davis, 20/7/2006 |
| The Legacy of Adelle Davis
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| The Legacy of Adelle Davis, 20/7/2006 |
| The Legacy of Adelle Davis
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| Quackwatch, 8/2/2010 |
| Adelle Davis (updated 1/15/06)
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| A Skeptical View of the Perricone Prescription, 6/9/2005 |
| My own fascination with nutrition was sparked during my undergraduate days, before I entered medical school. I had always suffered from sallow, acne-plagued skin, allergies, and fatigue, so I started reading everything I could find on the subject -- which, at the time, meant pretty much everything written by Linus Pauling, Ph.D. . . . and Adelle Davis. I began experimenting with vitamins on my own, and the results were gratifying. My skin and allergies improved, and I had much more energy. . . . The references to Pauling and Davis may help explain why Perricone spouts so many strange ideas. Although Pauling was a great chemist, his late-in-life beliefs in vitamin megadoses have been thoroughly discredited . Adelle Davis achieved great popularity during the 1970s, but close examination of her writings indicates that she consistently misinterpreted research reports or simply made things up . The irrational nutrition-related beliefs Perricone absorbed before going to medical school were apparently untouched by his science-based education. Barrett S. Adelle Davis's legacy. Quackwatch, March 27, 1999.
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| Promoters of Questionable Methods, 29/1/2010 |
| Adelle Davis
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| Some Notes on the Late Maureen Salaman, 13/10/2006 |
| None of the above "credentials" reflects any legitimate training in health or nutrition. Donsbach University and International University of Nutrition Education were nonaccredited correspondence schools that did not teach science-based nutrition. During the 1989 deposition, she said that she "never used any of the degrees" because they were not accredited. However, in recent years, she has used them in promoting her books. I have seen no evidence that she contributed to medical science by working with the unspecified "research teams."I suspect that her attitudes toward health, disease, and health care were shaped during her childhood. Her book The Diet Bible states that during her childhood, her mother prepared meals "according to the gospels of Gayelord Hauser, Adelle Davis, and Carleton Fredericks" and that "vitamin and mineral containers seemed to occupy acres of kitchen counter space."
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| Stay Away from Adrenal Cortical Extract (ACE), 19/6/2006 |
| A 2-month-old boy died because his mother, following the invalid recommendation for colic in Adelle Davis's Let's Have Healthy Children, overdosed him with potassium . In a television interview, the mother said that, as she became increasingly estranged toward conventional medicine, she had adopted vegetarianism and then veganism.
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| Cheers and Jeers from Quackwatch Visitors, 27/10/2004 |
| I can smell garbage from a mile away, and I have been following your smell for years. You haven't changed much, nor have your websites. You must spend every waking moment on these sites, including managing to get your Quackwatch homepage to pop up as every second item (it seems) in a search list for Adelle Davis. Well, Quackwatch, I am watching you, and this is war. See you on the highway, Creep!
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| Bernadean University: A Mail-Order Diploma Mill, 14/12/2002 |
| Kadans was assisted in his California operation by Howard Long, "ThD, DSc," a former health-food store operator who also was executive director of the Adelle Davis Foundation. From 1962 through 1972, Long had been vice president in charge of membership, promotion, education, public relations, and conventions for the National Health Federation. In 1978, Wilson asked whether Bernadean would award him an honorary MD or PhD degree in return for a contribution of several hundred dollars. Wilson stressed that he needed one in a hurry because he was about to publish a book. Long replied that the MD degree "will not be offered by the University under any circumstances," but a PhD was possible-"with the necessary credentials" plus payment of $1,000.
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