Adelle Davis 1904 - 1974
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.”
“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.”
“As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”
These words of wisdom are from Adelle Davis, a pioneer in the field of nutrition. She wrote books about diet and health and loudly criticized North American eating habits and the food industry that reinforced them. She insisted that nutrients in whole unprocessed foods play a role in maintaining health and preventing and healing from disease, a view that was ridiculed by many physicians. Her efforts to spread understanding about nutrition have a lot to do with why, decades later, her ideas sound like common sense.
