Let's Get Well

by Adele Davis

Genres: Health, Nutrition

480 pages

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Bill Arnold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Years ago I had a friend who suffered from asthma and had to go to the hospital and have cortisone injections to get relief. It mostly occurred in fall in cold weather climes when foggy days and goldenrod pollen were upon us. I went and heard Adelle Davis in Cambridge and several hundred doctors were in the audience. In response to a question, she said asthma attacks could be broken with a common supplement, vitamin (she was a well-known nutritionist and author), and recommended her own book Let's Get Well, and said she had dedicated a whole chapter to it. Well, I read it, and my friend tried it and never had asthma attacks again. I have other books by her, as she was a pioneer in the field of good health for our bodies.

[Christina · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Adelle Davis" is the name of the author. I read an electronic copy on Archive.org. I'm sharing with you what should not be a surprise: whole, natural foods are the best sources of vitamins; liver, yeast and wheat germ are best sources of the B vitamins; protein and Vitamin C and Vitamin E are suggested for healing.

Most of this book is elaboration on the "two unvarying rules": Improve nutrition the minute the initial symptom is noticed; an enormous amount of suffering could be prevented were this simple rule followed. See that each of the 4 body requirements is adequately supplied, erring on the side of taking too much rather than too little of the nutrients that meet the needs of stress." Refined carbohydrates and added sugars should be avoided.

This book is close to fifty years old, so Ms. Davis' thinking about cholesterol is that of a simpler time. Despite the age of publication, some principles haven't been seriously challenged: the value of Vitamin D3 and its availability in essential fatty acids; choline's importance in structuring capillary walls; what nutrients help clotting, what nutrients reduce the risk of pulmonary emboli (my brother was directed to the exactly wrong diet for his surgery and healing; not many surgeons around the world read Adelle Davis), what vitamins to megadose on to combat the depleting effects of radiation therapy for cancer... this book is still worth reading, more so than faddish restrictive diet books guided by national food nutrition policy. I recommend this for independent thinkers and supporters of traditional, whole natural foods. I'm deducting two stars because of the outdated cholesterol thinking and the frequent reiteration of cow's milk dairy as a calcium source for the antistress formula. Food's gone through processing changes over a few generations. The cancer nutrition suggestions are sensible enough for me to recommend to my friends.

[Stuart · Rating 3 out of 5]

She and Euel Gibbons were big proponents of heating healthy, nat'ul foods. Davis is best known as the author of a series of educational books published in the United States between 1947 and 1965. One of her books, Let's Have Healthy Children (Signet 1981, revised edition) states that Davis prepared individual diets for more than 20,000 people who came to her or were referred to her by physicians during her years as a consultant. She was also well known for her scathing criticism of the food industry in the United States. In the early 1970s, she addressed the ninth annual convention of the "International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends" at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. After citing US Department of Agriculture statistics about tens of millions of people in the United States suffering from afflictions such as arthritis, allergies, heart disease, and cancer, she stated, "This is what's happening to us, to America, because there is a $125 billion food industry who cares nothing about health".

She was part of the reason our kids grew up on "moonbeams" and other such foods that marked them as untouchables when it came to trading lunches in kindergarten.

[Pachyderm Bookworm · Rating 3 out of 5]

My mother had this book in our homes living room. She recommended off and on that people ought read it, but never took adequate time to adequately read the same book cover to cover at least once in her lifetime.

About the book: This was a hardcover book, with blue "boards" and a rather homely–looking "dust jacket."

My mother would simply skim through it and then have all and any of the so–called "health in need" questions answered, in spite of some somewhat contradictory advice from this same book which my mother had to swear by at least some fifty or so years ago.

[Danika Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent procrastination book. If you have an interest in nutrition or health, or just increasing your well being, this is a great starting place.

[Philip Bergstresser · Rating 5 out of 5]

a book about how you can become a vegetarian, proportions of amino acids in various foods , complementary
foods,etc.

[Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Adele Davis books are packed with nutritional information!

[Barbc]

5

[Mrs.Lady · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still relevant - I treasure this book and appreciate the healings that took place