Let's Have Healthy Children Author:Adelle Davis "An invaluable guide for mothers and expectant mothers. Adelle Davis shows, through sound nutrition, how to have healthy children and a happy motherhood." "Adelle Davis, one of the country's best-known nutritionists, studied at Purdue University, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, and took postgraduate work at Columbia Un... more »iversity and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) before receiving her Master of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of Southern California Medical School (USC). Throughout her career she has worked with physicians, beginning in New York with dietetics training at Bellevue and Fordham hospitals and her first job at the Judson Health Clinic. Later, in Oakland, California, and then in Los Angeles, she worked as a consulting nutritionist with physicians at the Alameda County Health Clinic and the William E. Branch Clinic in Hollywood as well as seeing patients referred to her by numerous specialists. After planning individual diets for more than 20,000 people suffering from almost every known disease, she gave up consulting work to devote her time to her family, writing, and lecturing. Her latest book is "Let's Get Well"; her best-selling earlier volumes are "Let's Cook It Right", "Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit", and "Let's Have Healthy Children". She was a celebrity, famous for her books, lectures and consultations. Each of her books is precious indeed, backed by a great deal of education and research and many years of successfully treating children and adults, before writing her first bestselling book. You cannot do better in learning good nutrition for yourself, your family and friends, than to read Adelle Davis. Snap up this book and if you are fortunate to find her others, get those too!« less
Although it was a bit difficult to wade through, this book was chock-full of information about nutrition that I had not found anywhere else. The only downside is that it is rather outdated.