Ellen White's Health Concepts

Sudden death
Elaine Nelson ageis@ix.netcom.com wrote about an earlier article in this area:

Not sure what the "sudden death" from eating meat that EGW was refering to, but it has been the cause of sudden death from choking on unchewed pieces. Also, a very full stomach certainly produces extreme burden on the heart, if one immediately goes to bed -- as reported by multiple coroner's exams.
Entered Elaine Nelson ageis@ix.netcom.com March 31, 1999

Sudden death from meat
In 1864 Ellen White wrote that eating meat caused sudden death (CDF 386). Modern research suggests that the "sudden death" she referred to is from heart attack. The Adventist Health Study shows that meat-eating Adventist men aged 44-55 have four times as many heart attacks as their vegetarian counterparts.
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Entered from "Health Watch," Greater Sydney Conference health newsletter Dec 3, 1998
Meat causes cancer
Ellen White wrote that cancers, tumors and pulmonary diseases are largely caused by eating meat (CDF 383). Now research shows Adventist meat eaters have a 41% higher risk of prostate cancer and 66% higher risk of ovary cancer than vegetarians. Those who consume large amounts of meat, milk, eggs and cheese have 360% more chance of prostate cancer. Eating beef, poultry or fish more than three times a week doubles the risk of bladder cancer. And meat doubles the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Grossness of the body
Ellen White wrote that eating meat tends to cause "grossness of the body" (CDF 389). Studies on Adventist women show that only 16% of vegetarians were overweight compared to 32% of meat eaters.
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Nuts and wholemeal bread
Ellen White said that fine-flour bread cannot impart to the system the nourishment in unbolted-wheat bread (CDF 320). Now research shows that Adventist men who customarily eat whole wheat bread have only 56% of the expected non-fatal heart attack rate. Fatal heart attacks were also reduced. Ellen also recommended nuts in the diet (CDF 359, 363-4). Adventist men who eat nuts regularly have only half the non-fatal heart attacks of those who rarely eat nuts.
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The original diet
Ellen White said that grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables are the diet chosen for us by our Creator (CDF 81). Now we know that this diet has no cholesterol (cholesterol comes only from animal products). That dramatically cuts heart death. Also there have been about 200 research projects on how eating fruit and vegetables affects cancer in the lungs, colon, breasts, cervix, exophagus, mouth, stomach, bladder, pancreas, and ovary. In most cases this diet significantly protected people from those cancers.
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Non-SDAs familiar with EGW
Stan Jensen Here.. ABC of Southern California. Last night I went to a fundraiser for an animal rights group. I reacquainted myself with a number of celebrities vegetarians etc etc One thing that I always find amazing is that there is a number of them that are familiar with EGW, and they express the high respect they have for her writings, this comes up as I am always introduced as from the Adventist Book & Health Food Center, (I always make sure that they never say just ABC.) The gentleman who invented GARDENBURGERS said, and a similar story is in his biography as well, that he read a chapter our Diets and FOOD by EGW and became a vegetarian went home and then developed Garden Burgers, which is one of the things that made vegetarianism popular on the west coast. He started in Oregon. he speaks highly of her. He now has the product in over 30,000 restaurants etc. Paul only owns something 10% of the company now. WHY IS IT that I find a growing number of sda's showing little respect for her, while the non-SDA's are discovering her? Including some Clergy? Some of the people I have asked when the last read a book by her, there is usually a fairly long pause and often ther is no answer. I recently had a Bishop, or what ever they are called, from a Greek-Orthodox Church purchase a Christ Object Lesson for every one of his members. One Catholic Priest, Father Dino, bought a Steps To Christ for his parishners saying that he had never read anything like that before. We as a Church, are were we are today because of some of the guidance that she gave. Even though others writers had a significant influence on her, her writings tend to have the same "look and feel" through out. We can often tell that it is her words before the author is given Credit. Just wondering why it is .......
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Entered by Stan_Jensen@lamg.com Nov 17, 1998
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