Let's Get Well

by Adelle Davis

Book Overview

In this extraordinary book, Adelle Davis, the nation's most highly regarded nutritionist, advises the millions who suffer from illness how to select the best foods that contain the most needed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151503729
• ISBN13: 9780151503728
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.

Customer Reviews

You Can Get Well

One of the best and most simple ways to learn how your body works. America could benefit from reading all Adelle Davis books. Your life can improve with her knowledge.

A great book by a great woman. Thanks Adelle Davis!

I have been benefitting from this book for the last 20 years. Despite what some doctors say, despite these doctors' ignorance, this woman and her books can do much more for us and our health than a whole lot of doctors, hospitals and the entire pharmaceutical industry. Adelle Davis teaches us what our body is, how our body functions and what it needs to stay healthy. She was a brilliant woman, a fantastic researcher and we should ALL (doctors included) be thankful that she had the courage to write this FANTASTIC book. I do not care what some $$$-minded doctors say. I have followed Adelle Davis' advice and I have always had great results, never mind what my problem was. I wish all doctors had the integrity and the courage to read this book, give it a try and accept that they also have a lot to learn from it. Reading this great book one can not only learn a lot but recover from a variety of ailments and illlnesses in a natural, safe way. I am not going to give any examples (there are too many) on how and how many times I benefitted from following the advice given in this great book. I will only suggest every reader to buy it, read it very carefullly, think about all the author says in her book and find out by themselves. Why is it that some prefer to call Adelle Davis a quacker? The answer is too obvious: $$$. The pharmaceutical industry and some doctors only want our money; they don't want us healthy. There are too many interests($$$)and patients kept on drugs -even on very dangerous drugs- are much more profitable for the "medical industry".

Super researcher! Super Lady!

Back in the late 1960's, a good friend gave me a copy of Let's Have Healthy Children. After absorbing the message that book delivered, I became a truehearted fan of Adele Davis. She showed us so much research had been conducted confirming the need and uses of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrition. Long before the 1990's it was known folic acid is needed during the first few weeks of gestation to prevent spina bifida. Pre-eclampsia is still treated with magnesium sulfate, but to avoid developing that condition, Adele Davis prescribed the supplements an expectant mother needs. How did she know about these? She perused so many documents and researched studies, much of which occurred before the 1930's. Some have said her writings are outdated and newer research refutes some of her findings, but the broad picture is she opened the public's eyes about nutrition's role. She told us there have been people curious enough to pursue Vitamin A's impact on skin health, cold fish oil and its role in cardiovascular disease, tryptophan, serotonin, lithium, and the B-complex benefitting the central nervous system and the brain. Adele Davis planted the seeds. Are we wise enough to pick the fruit?

Top Notch Advice on Nutrition

Adelle Davis was a brilliant expert in the field of nutrition. Her advice on sensable eating and diet are so applicable and useful, but at the same time simple it will surprise you. No complexity here. She was light years ahead of her time in the field of nutrition, and it is demonstrated here in this great book. I highly advise seeking out her other titles from wherever you can obtain them because they are incredibly valuable. No household is complete without an Adelle Davis reference!

Adelle Davis was pioneer in the nutrition revolution

Let's get well, indeed! In the late '60s and early '70, when it was difficult to find reliable, well-researched information on nutrition that was geared to mainstream readers, Ms. Davis published several books. My seven-year-old son was always dizzy and fatigued back then, and the doctor put him in the hospital for a weeklong battery of tests that turned up nothing. That's when someone introduced me to Adelle Davis's books. I read them with great interest and discovered that my child was perhaps exhibiting symptoms of vitamin C deficiency. I put him on mega-doses of C and he became a normal, healthy little boy within a week. The idea that some people need more vitamins than others had not occured to the medical profession back then. I used one of Adelle Davis's super-nutrition formulas on my cat who had been poisoned, had a green tongue, and was declared "almost dead" by vet...and the cat went on to live 19 years. I owe a great deal to this pioneering woman and recommend that anyone concerned about their health read this book and give it due consideration.