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'''Adelle Davis''' (25 February 1904 – 31 May 1974) was an [[United States|American]] author and [[nutritionist]], considered "the most famous nutritionist in the early to mid-20th century."<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/
Despite her popularity, she was heavily criticized by her peers for many recommendations she made that were not supported by the scientific literature, some of which were considered dangerous. She was the first woman nutritionist of healthy feeding and "health authorities" who obtained a professional background in [[dietetics]].
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Physician [[Robert C. Atkins]], who promoted the [[Atkins diet]], said Davis' books had contributed to his own pursuit of nutrition in medicine.<ref>Atkins, Robert C. ''Dr. Atkins' Vita-nutrient Solution: Nature's Answers to Drugs'', Simon & Schuster (1998) p. 26</ref>
Davis also contributed to, as well as benefiting from, the rise of a nutritional and health-food movement that began in the 1950s, which focused on subjects such as [[pesticide residues]] and [[food additives]],<ref name = Sicherman/> a movement her critics would come to term [[food faddism]].<ref name=McBean>{{cite journal |author=McBean LD, Speckmann EW |title=Food faddism: a challenge to nutritionists and dietitians |journal=[[Am. J. Clin. Nutr.]] |volume=27 |issue=10 |pages=1071–8 |date=October 1974|pmid=4417113 |doi= 10.1093/ajcn/27.8.1071|url=}}</ref> During the 1960s and 1970s, her popularity continued to grow, as she was featured in multiple media reports, variously described as an "[[oracle]]" by ''[[The New York Times]]'' and a "high priestess" by ''[[Life Magazine|Life]]'', and was compared to [[Ralph Nader]], the popular consumer activist, by the [[Associated Press]]. Her celebrity was demonstrated by her repeated guest appearances on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'', as she became the most popular and influential nutritionist in the country.<ref name=Hurley/>
A significant part of Davis' appeal came from her credentials, including her university training, and her apparent application of scientific studies and principles to her writing, with one book totaling over 2100 footnotes and citations.<ref name=Hurley/> Some of her nutritional ideas, such as the need for exercise, the dangers of [[vitamin deficiency|vitamin deficiencies]],<ref name =Sicherman/> and the need to avoid [[hydrogenated fat]], [[saturated fat]], and excess [[sugar]], remain relevant even to modern nutritionists.<ref name=Hurley/> [[U.S. Senator]] [[Patrick Leahy]] commended her views in 1998 as well, in remarks meant to support a law protecting free speech on [[food safety]] from the threat of [[lawsuits]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cspinet.org/foodspeak/press/leahy.htm |title=Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy on The First Amendment and Food Safety |last=Leahy |first=Patrick |date=April 29, 1998 |publisher=[[Center for Science in the Public Interest]] |accessdate=20 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703101305/http://www.cspinet.org/foodspeak/press/leahy.htm |archivedate=3 July 2013 }}</ref>
Although she was very popular with the public in general in the 1970s, none of her books were recommended by any significant nutritional [[professional society]] of the time. Independent review of the superficially impressive large number of citations to the scientific literature in her books found that the citations often either misquoted the scientific literature or were contradicted by or unsupported by the proposed citation, and that errors in the book averaged at least one per page.<ref name=Rynearson>{{cite journal |author=Rynearson EH |title=Americans love hogwash |journal=Nutr. Rev. |volume=32 |pages=suppl 1:1–14 |date=July 1974|pmid=4367657 |doi= 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1974.tb05179.x|url=}}</ref> One review noted that only 30 of 170 citations in a sample taken from one chapter accurately supported the assertions in her book.<ref name=Hurley/> The 1969 [[White House]] Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health labelled her probably the single most harmful source of false nutritional information.<ref name=Sicherman/><ref name="Quackwatch">{{cite web|url=http://www.quackwatch.com/04ConsumerEducation/davis.html|title=The Legacy of Adelle Davis|last=[[Stephen Barrett, M.D.]]|date=October 13, 2006|publisher=[[Quackwatch]]|accessdate=20 June 2013}}</ref>
A nutritionist in a [[literature review]] said that her works were "at best a half truth" or led to "ridiculous conclusions."<ref name = McBean/> Nutritionists disputed her view that [[alcoholism]], [[crime]], [[suicide]], and [[divorce]] were a byproduct of poor diet.<ref name = Hurley/><ref name=Life/>
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==Quotes==
Adelle Davis is known for:
{{cquote|Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.}}<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2017-07-01|title=Breakfast: The most important meal of the day?|url=|journal=International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science|language=en|volume=8|pages=1–6|doi=10.1016/j.ijgfs.2017.01.003|issn=1878-450X|last1=Spence|first1=Charles}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://time.com/4408772/best-times-breakfast-lunch-dinner/|title=When To Eat Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner|website=Time|language=en|access-date=2018-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.diabetes.org.sg/resources/0412-eat.pdf|title=EAT BREAKFAST LIKE A KING|last=Chiang|first=Zoe, dietitian, NHG
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