Adelle Davis Foundation

501c3 Non-Profit Adelle Davis, one of the country’s best known nutritionists, was born in 1904, and lived an active 70 years. In 1938 she received her Masters from Purdue University, graduated from University of California at Berkeley, and took postgraduate work at Columbia University and the University of California at Los Angeles before receiving her Master of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of Southern California Medical School. Throughout her career, she worked with physicians, beginning in New York with dietetics training at Belluvue and Fordham Hospitals, her first job at the Judson Health Clinic.