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.

- Adelle Davis

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea …

- Adelle Davis

Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly . . .

- Adelle Davis

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not …

- Adelle Davis

I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely givin…

- Adelle Davis

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

- Adelle Davis

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

- Adelle Davis

As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

- Adelle Davis

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

- Adelle Davis