"So closely is health related to our happiness, that we cannot have the latter without the former."

- Health Reformer, August 1, 1866 par. 4

Why Many choose drugs?

It is easier to employ drugs than to use natural remedies.
- Healthful Living 247.3

Diet & Health

Our bodies are built up from the food we eat....It is a wonderful process that transforms the food into blood and uses this blood to build up the varied parts of the body

-Ministry of Health 295.1

Healing

Nature's process of healing and upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient it seems slow.

-Ministry of Healing, p.127.3

During Temptation

In Christ, God has provided means for subduing every evil trait and resisting every temptation, however strong.

- Ministry of Healing, p.65.2,3

True Health and Healing

Platform of Health Principles

Whereas, The  Church has been given, through the Bible and the Spirit of prophecy, instruction in healthful living, and believing this instruction to be of divine origin, and that its object is to "secure the highest possible development of body and mind and soul," and, believing that observance of that instruction thus given this people will promote our health and happiness in this life and will aid us in a preparation for the life to come;

We therefore affirm our confidence in the health reform message, pledging our hearty support, and accept as our platform the following statement of principles as adopted by the General Conference in session, in 1936:

"We recognize that it is in God that we live and move and have our being; that man is not his own, but belongs to God by right of creation and redemp­tion; that the body is claimed by God for the in­dwelling of His Holy Spirit, and that man's mental faculties and physical powers should be used to show forth Christian character and service.

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Inspiration of Ellen White Writings on Health

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

Ellen G White

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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