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60-418: 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. Adelle Davis was born on February 25, 1904, on a small-town farm near Lizton, Indiana . She was the youngest of five daughters of Charles Eugene Davis and Harriette (McBroom) Davis. When she was ten days old, her mother

120-534: A "quasi think-tank and source of energy industry analysis." Yergin is arguably best known for his fourth book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991). It became a number-one bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1992 and the Eccles Prize for the best book on economics for a general audience, selling around 700,000 copies in 17 languages. The book

180-517: A 40-year career, revising some in the 1970s. She saw herself as an "interpreter", not merely a researcher. "I think of myself as a newspaper reporter, who goes out to libraries and gathers information from hundreds of journals, which most people can't understand, and I write it so that people can understand." She reviewed scientific literature in the biochemical libraries at U.C.L.A., for instance. Her references for Let's Get Well totaled almost 2,500, many from cases during her nutrition practice, and she

240-601: A club leader. After two years at Purdue she transferred to the University of California at Berkeley , where she graduated in 1927 with a degree in dietetics . Berkeley had set up the first department of nutrition in America in 1912. After receiving further dietetic training at Bellevue and Fordham Hospitals in New York City from 1927 to 1928, she supervised nutrition for Yonkers Public Schools and consulted as

300-664: A consulting nutritionist for doctors at the Alameda County Health Clinic . Two years later she moved to Los Angeles to do consulting at a medical clinic in Hollywood. She also enrolled at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she earned a master of science degree in biochemistry , in 1938. She worked as a consulting nutritionist in Oakland and then in Los Angeles with physicians at

360-470: A female householder with no husband present, and 37.3% were non-families. 33.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.94. In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.9% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 36.3% from 25 to 44, 18.8% from 45 to 64, and 10.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

420-410: A few instances to lawsuits asserting that her recommendations caused children harm. The litigation was ultimately settled out of court. Much of her advice was inaccurate, and some of it was harmful. For example, "she recommended magnesium as a treatment for epilepsy, potassium chloride for certain patients with kidney disease, and megadoses of vitamins A and D for other conditions." There was a case with

480-695: A four-year-old who was hospitalized at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. The child was pale and chronically ill because her mother, who was an adherent of Davis's nutrition, was giving her large doses of vitamins A and D plus calcium lactate. Davis is known for the quote "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper." In October 1943, Davis married George Edward Leisey, and adopted his two children, George and Barbara, though she never had children of her own. She divorced George Leisey in 1953 and married

540-552: A movement her critics would come to term food faddism . 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 , 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

600-688: A nutritionist for New York obstetricians . In 1928 she also worked as a nutritionist at the Judson Health Center in Manhattan. After working at hospitals where she set up diets for patients, she decided to not take on any more hospital assignments as she wanted to work more closely with each individual patient. In the fall of 1928 she enrolled in postgraduate studies at Teachers College, Columbia University and then took some time off to travel around Europe. After returning from Europe, Davis moved to Oakland, California in 1931 and worked as

660-628: A peak, Yergin predicted that future oil production would plateau as increasing prices moderate demand and stimulate production. He also addressed peak oil in a chapter in The Quest entitled "Is the World Running Out of Oil?" In 2019, Yergin and former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz led a major 229-page study, Advancing the Landscape of Clean Energy Innovation , which was conducted by IHS Markit and Energy Futures Initiative for

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720-605: A promotional pamphlet for a milk company in 1932, she wrote two non-published treatises: Optimum Health (1935) and You Can Stay Well (1939). In 1942 Davis wrote a 524-page, forty-one chapter nutrition textbook for Macmillan, Inc. , Vitality Through Planned Nutrition. But she received public acclaim with her subsequent books written for the general public: Let's Cook it Right (1947); Let's Have Healthy Children (1951); Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit (1954); and Let's Get Well (1965). By 1974, when she died, her books had sold over 10 million copies. Davis wrote her consumer books over

780-427: A retired accountant and lawyer named Frank Sieglinger in 1960. In 1973 she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and later died of the same disease in 1974 in her home at the age of seventy. She attributed her getting cancer to her early years in college, where she ate junk food before learning about its negative effects on health, and to a number of X-rays she underwent. Before her death she stated, "In my opinion there

840-710: Is a trustee of the Brookings Institution , where he chairs the energy security roundtable. He is currently a director on the Council on Foreign Relations , United States Energy Association , and the U.S.-Russia Business Council . He serves on the National Petroleum Council , which advises the U.S. Secretary of Energy . He is on the advisory boards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative,

900-481: Is documented with over 2,000 footnoted references to studies reported in medical journals and books. In her book Exploring Inner Space which was published in 1961 under the name of Jane Dunlap, she described her experience in taking the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Davis believed many of America's dietary problems were due to most doctors not being well informed about nutrition. She believed few medical schools offered nutrition courses and physicians had little time to read

960-462: Is no question whatsoever that the terrific amount of cancer we have now is related to the inadequacies of our American diet." Books on nutrition: Other publications: Lizton, Indiana Lizton is a town in Union Township , Hendricks County , Indiana , United States. The population was 488 at the 2010 Census . It is one of the three towns ( Pittsboro and North Salem being

1020-649: Is one of the reasons she recommended vitamin supplements. Although she was not a vegetarian, and ate moderate amounts of pork, veal and fish, she did not shy away from stating that "The great American Hamburger has done tremendous harm to health," and added that "for the great American charcoal-broiled steak, I wouldn't go across the street for one." She explained that beef is fattened with synthetic female hormones which "adds water weight, not protein weight". Besides believing it contributed to cancer, she said it also harmed men's virility: "I'm amazed there are any functioning males in this country of steak eaters." Some reviews of

1080-655: The Financial Times , and Forbes . He has also been interviewed about energy policy and international politics on various television programs. In 2003 he became CNBC 's global energy expert, which he continued to do for a decade, and in September 2011 he appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss wind and solar power. In a 2011 essay published in The Wall Street Journal , Yergin criticized predictions of imminent peak oil . Instead of

1140-611: The Financial Times . All of Yergin's books have been drafted in long-hand. Currently a director on entities such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the United States Energy Association , he is also a trustee of the Brookings Institution and a long-term advisor to several U.S. administrations, as well as chairman of the annual CERAWeek energy conference. Yergin was born to Jewish parents on February 6, 1947, in Los Angeles, California. His father Irving Yergin worked at Warner Brothers and

1200-716: The Alameda County Health Clinic and the William E. Branch Clinic in Hollywood. She also prescribed diets to the patients that were referred to her by numerous specialists. To help her spread nutrition information to the public she took a writing course and began writing pamphlets and books. She continued seeing patients referred to her by physicians, and by the end of her career she had helped approximately 20,000 referred patients. She had practiced professional nutritional counseling for 35 years before she retired and devoted her time to her family. After writing

1260-586: The Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, and Singapore's International Energy Advisory Panel. Yergin has been a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under presidents Bill Clinton , George W. Bush , Barack Obama , and Donald Trump . In December 2016 Yergin joined a business forum composed primarily of CEOs assembled to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues to President Donald Trump . The forum

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1320-610: The Pulitzer Prize –winning The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power , (1991) The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (2011), and The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (2020). Yergin's articles and op-eds on energy, history, and the economy have been published in publications such as The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , The Washington Post , and

1380-780: The poverty line , including 1.5% of those under age 18 and 3.6% of those age 65 or over. Both schools are part of the North West Hendricks School Corporation . Daniel Yergin Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author and consultant within the energy and economic sectors. Yergin is vice chairman of S&P Global . He was formerly vice chairman of IHS Markit , which merged with S&P in 2022. He founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates , which IHS Markit acquired in 2004. He has authored or co-authored several books on energy and world economics, including

1440-417: The 1940s and 1950s, the change in culture with the 1960s brought her ideas, especially her anti- food processing and food industry charges, into the mainstream in a time when anti-authority sentiment was growing. One historian described Davis as the "most widely read nutritionist of the postwar decades ... [whose work] helped to shape Americans' eating habits, their child-feeding practices, their views about

1500-530: The 2010 census, Lizton has a total area of 0.57 square miles (1.48 km ), all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 488 people, 197 households, and 137 families living in the town. The population density was 856.1 inhabitants per square mile (330.5/km ). There were 218 housing units at an average density of 382.5 per square mile (147.7/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 97.3% White , 0.4% Asian , 0.8% from other races , and 1.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of

1560-546: The Breakthrough Energy coalition, led by Bill Gates. The study identified ten areas for transformational energy breakthroughs. Axios quoted Yergin, "The purpose of the report is to provide a framework and a guide to people who want to invest in clean energy innovation." Yergin chaired IHS Markit's study on "Reinventing the Wheel," which focused on changing transportation methods, the role of electric vehicles, and

1620-573: The World Economy , written with Joseph Stanislaw , described in narrative form the struggle over the "frontier" between governments and markets and the rise of globalization. In the "first major PBS series on business in more than a decade," he led the team that created an Emmy-winning six-hour PBS/BBC television series based on the book, serving as executive producer and co-writer and interviewing individuals such as Bill Clinton , Dick Cheney , Vicente Fox , and Mikhail Gorbachev . CERA

1680-462: The assertions in her book. The 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health labelled her as probably the single most harmful source of false nutritional information. A nutritionist in a literature review said that her works were "at best a half truth" or led to "ridiculous conclusions". Nutritionists disputed her view that alcoholism , crime , suicide , and divorce were byproducts of poor diet. Her reliance on supplements led in

1740-815: The benefits of breastfeeding and when to introduce solid foods. She denounced prepared baby foods due to their high concentrations of additives and pesticide residue, which made her opinions controversial among doctors. In the book she also criticized obstetricians and pediatricians for being ignorant about nutrition, which leads them to prescribe harmful diets for both mother and child. She said that "the chapter on canned foods will make your hair stand on end". She argued that women who did not eat well during pregnancy were more likely to suffer from numerous medical problems and that their infants might have hearing and vision abnormalities, rickets and anemia, and do poorly in school, and that such mothers were settling for mediocre children when they could have superior ones. Her third book

1800-871: The book on four years of research, with Robert B. Stobaugh he co-authored and co-edited Energy Future: The Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School in 1979. According to the Los Angeles Times , the book "caused a considerable stir with its optimistic view of the possibilities of energy conservation and such alternative sources as solar power." It proved to be a The New York Times bestseller , ultimately selling 300,000 copies in six languages. Within its first year of release, Yergin and Stobaugh were called to Washington, D.C. several times to testify before Congressional committees. He also advised James Schlesinger ,

1860-411: The book were highly critical, one reviewer saying it was "replete with misinformation" and an example of books which promotes "food fads and cults rather than soundly established nutrition information and practice. Another stated that Davis "indulges in amateur diagnosis which is both unconvincing and dangerous ... which cannot be recommended because of its inaccuracies and the over-dramatic manner in which

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1920-475: The club she won numerous ribbons for her breads, canned fruits and vegetables, which she had entered at state and county fairs. She enrolled at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana where she stayed from 1923 to 1925, majoring in home economics . To help pay for college costs she worked at various jobs, and played tennis in her free time. During the summers she stayed active with the 4-H Club as

1980-457: The first US energy secretary, around the time of the Iranian revolution . According to Reuters , "since then he has given advice to every administration." He founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) with Jamey Rosenfield in 1982 with the purchase of a $ 2 file cabinet from The Salvation Army . With Yergin as president, the energy research and consulting firm was created as

2040-504: The hundreds of medical journals published to keep up with new findings. Davis criticized the food industry for promoting bad eating habits with misleading advertising. "It's just propaganda," she said, "that the American diet is the best in the world. Commercial people have been telling us those lies for years." In a television interview she said that a "great deal of sickness is caused by refined foods". She states that "We are literally at

2100-433: The material is presented." Let's Get Well (1965) was her final book, in which she tried to convince the reader that before most diseases develop there were likely nutritional deficiencies that people were not aware of. She discussed nutritional therapy for hundreds of ailments, including heart disease, high cholesterol, ulcers, diabetes, and arthritis, often contradicting the dietary advice given by many physicians. The book

2160-537: The mercy of the unethical refined food industry, who take all the vitamins and minerals out of food." She was also worried about the welfare of society in general, warning in 1973 that "nutrition consciousness had better grow or we're going under...We're watching the fall of Rome right now, very definitely, because Americans are getting more than half their calories from food with no nutrients. People are exhausted." In her opinion, according to Yergin, "entire civilizations rise and fall on their diets". She felt that one of

2220-411: The most popular and influential nutritionist in the country. A significant portion of Davis's 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. Some of her nutritional ideas, such as the need for exercise, the dangers of vitamin deficiencies , and

2280-480: The mother I didn't have." She was raised with her sisters on the family's farm by her father and an elderly aunt, where among her duties were pitching hay, plowing corn fields, and milking cows. She rode seven miles in a horse and buggy to attend school, where she graduated in 1923 with thirteen other students. From age ten to eighteen, she was also an active member of the 4-H Club , an organization which helped youths reach their fullest potential. During her time with

2340-453: The need to avoid hydrogenated fat , saturated fat , and excess sugar , remain relevant even to modern nutritionists. U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy commended her views in 1998 as well, in remarks supporting a law protecting free speech on food safety from the threat of lawsuits . 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

2400-399: The other two) that make up North West Hendricks School Corporation . Lizton was originally called New Elizabeth, and under the latter name was laid out in 1837 by Jesse Veiley, and named for his wife, Elizabeth. The post office was established as New Elizabeth in 1854, and was renamed Lizton in 1873. According to one source, the name may have been changed by the railroad. According to

2460-439: The population. There were 197 households, of which 39.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.7% were married couples living together, 15.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 8.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 30.5% were non-families. 26.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

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2520-527: The quality of their food supply, and their beliefs about the impact of nutrition on their emotional and physical health." Physician Robert C. Atkins , who promoted the Atkins diet , said Davis' books had contributed to his own pursuit of nutrition in medicine. 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 ,

2580-731: The reasons Germany easily defeated France in World War II was due to the Germans' healthier diets. "Ominously, she warns that the Russians eat much less of the illness-breeding refined foods than do Americans." Davis's works gained further popularity from speaking on the lecture circuit on college campuses as well as in Latin America and Europe, and she eventually became sought after for guest appearances on television talk shows. Although her ideas were considered somewhat eccentric in

2640-647: The search for renewable sources of energy. Like his previous books, it was drafted in long-hand. In 2011 it was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award . In September 2020, Yergin published The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations. Yergin's articles and op-eds on energy, history, and the economy have been published in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , Foreign Affairs , The Washington Post ,

2700-432: 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. One review noted that only 30 of 170 citations in a sample taken from one chapter accurately supported

2760-506: The timing of peak oil demand. Yergin is the current vice chairman of S&P Global, appointed during the company's merger with IHS Markit. He became the vice chairman of IHS in 2012 and remained vice chairman when IHS merged with Markit in 2016. He is also chairman of S&P's annual CERAWeek energy conference. He previously chaired the US Department of Energy 's Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He

2820-439: The town. The population density was 1,303.3 inhabitants per square mile (503.2/km ). There were 180 housing units at an average density of 630.6 per square mile (243.5/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 98.39% White , 0.27% African American , and 1.34% from two or more races. There were 161 households, out of which 37.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.1% were married couples living together, 11.8% had

2880-535: Was Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit (1954; updated 1970), which was written as a basic primer on nutrition for the layperson. In it she includes numerous documented case histories from her practice and from footnoted medical journals. She explained the functions of, and food sources for, over forty nutrients considered essential to human health, including vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and proteins. She also described in detail her belief that most Americans inflicted harm on themselves with their typical diets, which

2940-427: Was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.96. The median age in the town was 32.1 years. 28.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 34.7% were from 25 to 44; 22.3% were from 45 to 64; and 7.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 53.1% male and 46.9% female. As of the census of 2000, there were 372 people, 161 households, and 100 families living in

3000-406: Was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.3 males. The median income for a household in the town was $ 40,694, and the median income for a family was $ 55,313. Males had a median income of $ 36,023 versus $ 23,750 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 20,269. About 3.0% of families and 3.1% of the population were below

3060-442: Was a Marshall Scholar . While at Cambridge, he wrote for various British magazines as well as The Atlantic , where he was a contributing editor, and The New York Times Magazine . He has honorary doctorates from Dartmouth College , Colorado School of Mines , University of Houston , and the University of Missouri . Early in his career, Yergin worked as a contributing editor for New York magazine . Through 1980, he

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3120-698: Was a lecturer at the Harvard Business School and, until 1985, a lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School . Yergin's first book, Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State (1977), was partly based upon his doctoral dissertation and focused on the origins of the Cold War . In the mid-1970s, while a post-doctoral fellow, he began to take a particular interest in energy in his writing. Basing

3180-419: Was acquired by the information company IHS Inc. in 2004, with Yergin becoming an executive of the combined company and remaining chairman of CERA. Described as a sequel to his book The Prize, Yergin's The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (2011) continued his history of the global oil industry but also addressed energy security, natural gas, electric power, climate change and

3240-527: Was adapted into a PBS / BBC series seen by around 100 million viewers both domestically and internationally, with Yergin as the principal storyteller. His next book was Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World (1993), written with Thane Gustafson , which provided scenarios for the development of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His 2002 book The Commanding Heights: The Battle for

3300-521: Was aimed at educating readers. She promoted the benefits of whole grains and breads, fresh vegetables, vitamin supplements, limits on sugar, and avoidance of packaged and processed foods. The book was well received and she went on to publish Let's Have Healthy Children (1951; revised in 1972 and 1981), which drew on her own experiences of working with obstetricians and conducting her own research. The book offers nutrition advice for pregnant women as well as for infants and young children, including explaining

3360-531: Was disbanded in August 2017. Yergin was awarded the 1997 United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding." The International Association for Energy Economics gave Dr. Yergin its 2012 award for "outstanding contributions to the profession of energy economics and to its literature." In 2014 the Prime Minister of India presented Yergin with

3420-555: Was editor of The Hollywood Reporter and a former journalist in Chicago. His mother Naomi Yergin was a sculptor and painter. He attended Beverly Hills High School . He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1968, where he wrote for the Yale Daily News and was founder of The New Journal in 1967. He received his M.A. in 1970 and his Ph.D. in international history from Cambridge University , where he

3480-415: Was excessively high in salt, refined sugars, pesticides, growth hormones, preservatives and other additives, and thereby "devitalized" of its essential nutrients by the excessive processing. As a result, she suggested that countless adults and most children in the U.S. "have never once had a mouthful of genuinely wholesome food". She recognizes that wholesome foods are difficult to obtain in supermarkets, which

3540-419: Was paralyzed from a stroke and died seventeen months later. Because bottle feeding was then unknown, Davis had to be fed with an eye-dropper, and later felt her interest in nutrition was due to the deprivation of oral feeding during her infancy. Early in her career she treated every patient as if they were herself. "Every patient was me, and I was mother, trying to get him healthy. I spent all my time making up for

3600-598: Was upset when the publisher of Let's Have Healthy Children eliminated the 2,000 references from the 1972 revision, according to author Daniel Yergin . Her first book, Let's Cook it Right (1947), was an effort to update and improve on the popular guide, Joy of Cooking (1931), by including scientific facts about nutrition. Besides giving various new recipes, she instructs the housewife in how to enrich recipes with nutritious ingredients such as powdered milk and wheat germ , and describes how to best preserve flavors and nutrients when cooking. This book, like her later ones,

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