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 [...]
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. [...]
We know the Matthew 14 story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with five barley loaves and two fish. John 21 describes Jesus cooking fish over a fire and serving it with bread to the disciples for breakfast. In the 1800's, fish was generally not considered to be the same as meat, and earlier in [...]
In 1893, Ellen White wrote that it was a mistake for pregnant women to eat anything and everything they might crave, because this could harm their children; "women... will consider that another life is dependent upon them, and will be careful in all their habits, and especially. in diet. They should not eat that which [...]
In 1878 , before scientists even began using the words "gene" or "genetics", Ellen White wrote a letter to her nephew advising him to "be careful of your associates. If you had been more circumspect in this you would not now be where you are. Your associates may not be expected to be free from [...]
If a subject could improve your health and happiness, it didn't escape Ellen White's notice. In 1871, she wrote an article for "The Health Reformer" about the heavy wigs and head gear worn by many of the fashionable women of the era. Horsehair and wool were often added to human hair to make up wigs, [...]
Ask someone to give up eating beans or Brussels sprouts and you won't get too much pushback. Ask that same person to give up eating meat and you may have a battle on your hands. All three are high in protein, so it isn't a craving for amino acids that makes a meat free diet [...]
Ellen White wrote about the health benefits of simple, uncomplicated foods and the body's preference for a diet based on fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts- basically, a plant-based diet similar to the one God gave us at creation. She called these the "very best kinds of food." In her opinion, fresh fruit plucked from the [...]
Seventh-day Adventists were given the work of promoting the health reform diet. Regarding a plant based diet, EGW wrote that no one was to "give up the use of meat because Sister White does not eat it. I would not give a farthing for your health reform if that is what it is based upon" [...]
In 1904, Ellen White wrote about an experience she had; "I was in the night season called upon to behold buildings rising story after story toward heaven. These buildings were warranted to be fireproof, and they were erected to glorify the owners and builders. Higher and still higher these buildings rose, and in them the [...]
