Optimum Health

This is the first book by Adelle Davis and is the book that made her famous. Time magazine best put it in 1972, calling her the high priestess of a new nutrition religion.As you will see, the book makes some unusual recommendations. It contends that almost any disease can be prevented by proper diet.Adelle Davis radiated assurance of that by abiding by her precepts - as she herself did - that would ward off or cure most personal illnesses. Moreover, in proper diet lay societal well-being. To Davis, Alcoholism, crime, insanity, suicide, divorce, drug addiction and even impotency are often merely the results of bad eatingDavis benefited from and contributed to the phenomenal growth, from the 1950s onward, of the health food movement, which thrived on publicity about pesticide residues and food additives.She recommends you take Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E and Vitamin G. It also recommends you include Calcium and Phosphorus in your diets.She recommends that adults drink a quart of milk per day. This advice has been rejected as potentially harmful by modern dietitians.She writes that people in Labrador live unusually long and healthy lives because they pour large quantities of fish-liver oil on their foods.