My Challenge to Seventh-day Adventists (SDA)

On this Sabbath day Saturday enjoyed by Seventh-day
Adventists and Jews of all denominations, I offer
today's column as food for thought.

Using sports colloquialisms to state my position,
I am using the Notmilk forum to urge members of the
SDA faith to STEP UP TO THE PLATE, because many of
you have FUMBLED THE BALL.

There was a time that Loma Linda University published
a large number of peer-reviewed scientific papers
indicating that Seventh-day Adventists lived longer
and healthier than most non-SDA Americans as a result
of the "clean" foods they ate. Sadly, many members of
that SDA faith have stumbled.

The spiritual founder of the SDA church, Ellen G. White,
wrote the following:

"Cheese should never be introduced into the stomach."
Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 68

"Cheese is still more objectionable; it is wholly
unfit for food."
Ministry of Healing, p. 302

When lecturing at SDA churches and meetings and witnessing
the vast amounts of cheese being consumed, I never forget
to ask:

"What part of the word 'never' do you have trouble understanding?"

In her "Ministry of Healing," Ellen G. White wrote
(page 271):

"In order to have good health, we must have good blood;
for the blood is the current of life. It repairs waste
and nourishes the body. When supplied with the proper
food elements and when cleansed and vitalized by contact
with pure air, it carries life and vigor to every part
of the system."

In 1893, a caramel candy maker visited the Chicago World's
Fair and was much impressed upon seeing German-built chocolate
making machinery. He purchased that equipment, and his
investment became our loss. America's health would never be
the same. The man's name was Milton Hershey. In that same
year, Aunt Jemima's powdered-milk pancake mix was also brought
to market. In 1893, an American physician, John Kellogg,
identified the allergic cause and effect reactions which
resulted from cheese consumption. Ellen G. White related a
fascinating anecdote of this vegetarian doctor who invented
Kellogg's Corn Flakes in her 1893 letter to a friend:

"It was decided that at a certain camp meeting, cheese
should not be sold to those on the ground; but on coming
to the ground, Doctor Kellogg found to his surprise that
a large quantity of cheese had been purchased for sale
at the grocery. He and some others objected to this, but
those in charge of the grocery said that they could not
afford to lose the money invested in it. Upon this,
Doctor Kellogg asked the price of the cheese, and bought
the whole of it from them. He had traced the matter from
cause to effect, and knew that some foods generally thought
to be wholesome, were very injurious."

"God's Nutritionist", Quote #386, page 129

Seventh-day Adventists are ready to scale a mountain, so far as
I am concerned. They are a potential army of vegetarians who are
ready to teach the world the healthiest way to live one's life.
If only they were as inspired by Ellen White's sage advice as I.

Robert Cohen
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