You Can Stay Well
[Los Angeles]: Published by the author, 1940. Second Printing. An early work by the influential nutrition writer, presenting dietary education through thirty-six chapters of conversations and case histories. Davis explains that the conversations substantially reproduce actual exchanges with friends and acquaintances, while patients’ names have been changed. Discussions connect diet with everyday health concerns, including eyesight and hair growth, and are supplemented by a substantial practical appendix containing a health scorecard, food-factor tables, instructions for calculating an adult’s daily diet, and references. The preface addresses physicians as well as general readers, inviting scrutiny of the research underlying her recommendations. An instructive precursor to Davis’s later bestselling nutrition books, documenting her development as a popular interpreter of nutritional science and advocate of individual responsibility for health.
8vo. Pebbled green cloth boards stamped in gilt, 317 pp. A near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Item #15281
Price: $75.00