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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelle_Davis
又是可信度不高的Wikipedia，大家凑合着看，喜欢就信，不喜欢...我也不知道。我本人对Davis毫无了解，纯粹是吃饱了撑的翻译着玩 
这本书是1954年写的，那时候别说营养学完全是刚起步，医学整体的水平跟现在比也完全不是一个档次的。wikipedia上对Adelle Davis的批评占了大多数篇幅，我把批评的段落简略翻译出来：
Scientific criticism
Despite her celebrity, Davis received significant and strong criticism from fellow nutritionists, with one review commenting that her works were "at best a half truth."
虽然出了名，Davis也受到了她同时代的营养学家严厉的批评。其中之一说她的著作“最多只能算是正确了一半”
[3] While lauded for her ability to open the public to the concept of science in nutrition, she was nevertheless heavily criticized for misusing the science in her nutritional works to come to "ridiculous conclusions,"
她引发了公众对健康营养的讨论，但也被猛烈批评她滥用科学成果并由此得出“荒唐的结论”
especially in light of her scientific training. Amongst the many views not supported by nutritionists include her view that not only physical health but mental and social ills could be cured with the proper diet, stating alcoholism, crime, suicide and divorce were the product of mere poor diet.[2]
她的很多不被其他营养学家支持的理论包括：不但身体的健康，连精神健康和社会性疾病都能通过饮食来治好；包括酗酒，犯罪，自杀和离婚等等都是饮食不健康的结果。
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.
她的书在70年代非常流行，但没有一本被当时的营养学专家组织推荐。
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 was contradicted by or unsupported by the proposed citation, and that errors in the book averaged at least one per page.[5]
独立的审查发现，她书中引用的大量的所谓科学数据，基本上要么是不实引用，要么引用的数据并不被实验本身支持，甚至截然相反。她的书中平均每一页都会有一个错误。
One review noted that only 30 of 170 citations in a sample taken from one chapter accurately supported the assertions in her book.[2]
比如有一项审查发现，在她的某一本书的某一个章节中引用的170处科学证据，只有30处真正支持了她的论点。
Additionally, the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health labelled her probably the single most harmful source of false nutritional information.[1]
而且，1969年的白宫食品，营养和健康会议宣布，她大概是虚假营养学信息的最大来源。
Most concerning to physicians and nutritionists who reviewed her work was not only the scientific inaccuracies, but the dangerous, and "potentially lethal," recommendations that appeared in her books.
最令人关注的是她的书中不但有不实数据，而且有危险的，甚至可能致命的建议。
Examples of these concerning recommendations include the recommendation to give potassium supplements to patients with nephrosis and the recommendation for large doses of vitamin A and vitamin D.
比如说，她建议给肾病患者补充钾，还有建议大剂量的维生素A和D。
[5] This recommendation for vitamin A supplement was followed by a mother of a young girl who subsequently developed permanently stunted growth. A lawsuit filed for the child was ultimately settled out of court with the estate of Davis for the sum of $150,000.[6]
一个有年幼女儿的母亲听从了她的补充维生素A的建议，导致女儿永远停止了发育。这个案子闹到了法庭上，Davis最后被罚款150,000.
A separate case report in 1971 with a child given vitamin A supplements and becoming significantly ill ended with a better outcome when those dietary supplements were stopped and the child recovered.[2]
1971年的一起事件中，一个儿童也因为服用大量维生素A而得了重病。在停止服用维生素A后康复。
In 1978, the parents of a child with colic followed the advice of Davis, which was based on a misrepresentation of study about hospitalized children with a different condition (gastroenteritis). These parents gave the child potassium supplementation for this condition and the child subsequently died. A lawsuit by the parents against Davis' estate, the book's publisher, and the supplement manufacturers ended with an out-of-court settlement of $160,000.[7]
1978年，一个得了疝气的小孩的父母听从了Davis的建立在对有不同病症（肠胃炎）的住院的病童的研究上的错误建议，开始给小孩补充钾。这个小孩后来死亡。小孩的父母上诉，控告Davis，她的出版商以及补剂的生产商，最终获得$160,000的庭外和解。 |
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