Books

Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit: Is a compendium of all the vitamins and mineral elements, one chapter on each one, taken from her years of clinical counseling and intensive research into the scientific experiments in the biochemistry of nutrition. Often referred as ALERT “Adelle’s Let’s Eat Right To…” this book explains in detail how these nutrients work in the body, the research that has been done on them, what happens when there is a deficiency in a nutrient, how much of the nutrient is needed in each instance and why, and what foods and supplements contain that nutrient. One gets a clear understanding of it is important, in each case, to supplement through the use of healthful foods and occasionally through pills. Further, since she educates you thoroughly in the research behind each nutrient, one learns how to adjust one’s diet wisely, using measurement and quantification based on science.

Let’s Have Healthy Children: This book focuses on her theories as they pertain to diet during pregnancy, and raising a young family. This book also explains in detail how these nutrients work in the body of a child; what happens when there is a deficiency in a nutrient, how much of the nutrient is needed in each instance and why, and what foods and supplements contain that nutrient.

Let’s Cook It Right: Adelle Davis believed that food should first and foremost, be delicious. This cookbook is full of ways to prepare fresh foods of all kinds in the most minimally-impacted, health-preserving manner.

Let’s Stay Healthy: A Guide to Lifelong Nutrition

You Can Get Well: A checkup by your doctor once a year and the information in You Can Get Well can save you a lot of trouble. This is the considered and solid promise that scientific nutrition holds out to you. You can increase your life span 10% if you start in time. Declares no less authority than Professor Henry Sherman of Columbia.

Additional Writings:

  • Optimum Health (1935)
  • You Can Stay Well (1939)
  • Vitality Through Planned Nutrition (1942)
  • Let’s Get Well (1965)

Under the pen name Jane Dunlap, Adelle Davis wrote: Exploring Inner Space: Personal Experiences Under LSD-25 (1961)