Ellen White Plant-Based Diet

PLANT-BASED DIET AND OUR HEALTH
Ellen White says a lot about a plant-based diet in relation to our health. There is a saying that goes, “you are what you eat”. In fact, many in the church today are suffering from diseases caused by a meat-based diet. In addition, we have scientific evidence of risks associated with eating meat. Considering that the will of God is that all of us may leave in “good health, as your soul prospers” (3 John 2), I believe it is important to explore what Ellen White teaches about health in general, and especially about our diet.

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As Christ’s disciples, we are called to heal the sick. In The Desire of Ages, she comments:
“Christ feels the woes of every sufferer. When evil spirits rend a human frame, Christ feels the curse. When fever is burning up the life current, he feels the agony. And he is just as willing to heal the sick now as when he was personally on earth. Christ’s servants are his representatives, the channels for his working. He desires through them to exercise His healing power”.

In Counsels on Health, Ellen White exhorts the church to engage in medical missionary work:
“We have come to a time when every member of the church should take hold of medical missionary work. The world is a Lazar house filled with victims of both physical and spiritual disease. Everywhere people are perishing for lack of a knowledge of the truths that have been committed to us. The members of the church are in need of an awakening”.

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We need to give people the time need to progressively adjust to a plant diet. If they are not yet reading, eating meat is not a sin. She frequently said that she never felt it her “duty to say that no one should taste of meat under any circumstances. To say this when the people have been educated to live on flesh to so great an extent, would be carrying matters to extreme.”
We need to use common sense. You need to consider your budget when considering changing diet. Ellen White recognized that many people in her day were not ready to “discard” or “exclude” milk from their diet because of lack of financial resources. She wrote:
“I cannot say to them, ‘You must not eat eggs or milk or cream. You must use no butter in the preparation of food.’ The gospel must be preached to the poor, and the time has not yet come to prescribe the strictest diet.”
“Common sense indicated that “until we can teach them how to prepare health reform foods that are palatable, nourishing, and yet inexpensive, we are not at liberty to present the most advanced propositions regarding health reform

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