ABSTRACT
One of the early twentieth-century diet authorities who had a professional background in nutrition. Trained in dietetics and nutrition at the University of California at Berkeley, she received her M.S. degree in biochemistry from the University of Southern California in 1938. Her work piggybacked on that of Gayelord Hauser in that she was an early advocate of nutritional supplements as well as “natural” foods in specific combinations. In 1935, Stationers’ Hall of London, England published her Optimum Health, and in 1939 her second book, You Can Stay Well. In 1942, the Macmillan Company published the most assertive of Davis’s works of the period, Vitality through Planned Nutrition.
