Christian Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods

Written by Ellen G White. Posted in Abstemiousness (Self-Control)

[Why Christians Need to be Vegetarian]

Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use!

Flesh was never the best food; but its use is now doubly objectionable, since disease in animals is so rapidly increasing. Those who use flesh foods little know what they are eating. Often if they could see the animals when living and know the quality of the meat they eat, they would turn from it with loathing. People are continually eating flesh that is filled with tuberculous and cancerous germs. Tuberculosis, cancer, and other fatal diseases are thus communicated. [Animal Food Causes Deadly Diseases]

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Why Fish is Unhealthy Even in 1905

Written by Ellen G White. Posted in Abstemiousness (Self-Control)

[Ellen G White on Fish]

In many places fish become so contaminated by the filth on which they feed as to be a cause of disease. This is especially the case where the fish come in contact with the sewage of large cities. The fish that are fed on the contents of the drains may pass into distant waters and may be caught where the water is pure and fresh. Thus when used as food they bring disease and death on those who do not suspect the danger.

The effects of a flesh diet may not be immediately realized; but this is no evidence that it is not harmful. Few can be made to believe that it is the meat they have eaten which has poisoned their blood and caused their suffering. Many die of diseases wholly due to meat eating, while the real cause is not suspected by themselves or by others.

- (1905) Ministry of Healing, p. 314.3-315.1

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Inspiration of Ellen White Writings on Health

Written by THH. Posted in General Articles

Did Mrs. White get her Message from Other People and Claim it came from God?

Dr. Clive McCay, a noted nutrition authority half a century after Mrs. White's day, said that you could not account so easily as this for what she wrote. Dr. McCay, a Unitarian who taught the history of nutrition at Cornell University, received a copy of Counsels on Diet and Foods from an Adventist graduate student. He was astonished at what he read there, each statement identified by the year of its publication. For any given year, Dr. McCay knew who had been writing on nutrition and what they had written. "Who was this Ellen G. White," he asked, "and why haven't I heard of her before?"

Impressed

Dr. McCay was so impressed by Ellen White's writings on nutrition that he authored a three-part series of articles for the Review and Herald. Note a portion of his summation at the end:

"To sum up the discussion: Every modern specialist in nutrition whose life is dedicated to human welfare must be impressed . . . by the writings and leadership of Ellen G. White.

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Ellen White View: When and How to use Drugs

Written by THH. Posted in Modern Medicine

[Sharing this article to understand Ellen White View on Drugs and When and How to use]

Ellen G. White Question and Answer File, No. 34-B-2, Dr. S.P.S. Edwards letter to F.D. Nichol, November 24, 1957, as quoted in Review and Herald, July 7, 1983

Elder F.D. Nichol
Editor of Review and Herald,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Brother:

I have just read the second article on the "Use of Drugs" as printed in the review of November 21. As I read the statements in regard to the use of QUININE, the following story came to me, and I decided to send it to you as it might help someone.

From 1904 to 1909 I was Medical Superintendent of the Tri-City Sanitarium at Moline, Illinois. Being located on the Mississippi River there were many cases of malaria. Because of Sister White's statement about the use of QUININE, I refuse to use it myself or give it to patients. With physiotherapy we were able to control the symptoms of malaria, But could not cure it. Most of those living along the river took QUININE daily as they ate their breakfast. The QUININE, in the doses usually taken, did no more for the patients than our physiotherapy treatments did. It was palliative only. Several of our doctors discussed the matter and decided that if one or two large doses of QUININE were given so as to saturate the blood, we could destroy the parasites in the blood and cure the disease. I tried it on a severe case of Tirtian Malaria. The Patient was given 20 grains of QUININE the night before his chill was due, and he was put to bed with cold to his head. The next morning, two hours before time for the chill, he was given the same dose and immediately put in a continuous hot bath, and kept there till two hours after time for the chill. He did not have a chill then nor after, and his blood showed no signs of parasites. The hot bath caused him to sweat the QUININE out of the system so he had no bad after symptoms from the QUININE. This was repeated in many cases and never a failure.

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