Monthly Archives: March 2025

EGW practiced intermittent fasting before it was popular

Intermittent fasting, also known as time-restricted eating, is where you alternate between periods of eating and fasting during certain hours of the day or certain days of the week.  For instance, the 16/8 method involves eating within an 8 hour window and then fasting for the remaining 16 hours of the day, or you could [...]

Why on earth would she say that tuning pianos could cause insanity?

In 1901, Ellen White wrote a letter to a friend to advise him on his livelihood as a busy piano tuner.  Pianos were very popular at that time since radios and televisions did not exist, and playing the piano was a major form of home entertainment.  She urged him to find another type of work [...]

She wasn’t against using all medicines, just the popular but poisonous ones- which weren’t recognized as poisons at the time

Some Seventh-day Adventists believe that Ellen White didn't like any prescription medications and only recommended "natural methods" for healing.  But this isn't the case. Doctors in the 1800's had little understanding or agreement on how medicines should be used, and most people were unaware of the risks of medicines that were popular at that time. [...]

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