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Thank you for contacting the Ellen G. White Estate. My wife is a registered dietitian, so I am not a stranger to discussions of the dietary counsel of Mrs. White. Both she and I believe that Mrs. White was given her major points of counsel in visions from God. This was, in fact, what Mrs. White herself claimed. She had not studied nutrition under the authorities of her day. Yet she gave counsel that, unlike theirs, has stood the test of time. In the late 1950s, Dr. Clive McCay, a Unitarian and a professor of nutrition at Cornell University in New York, was given Counsels on Diet and Foods by one of his graduate students. As an expert on the history of nutrition, he was astonished at Mrs. White's grasp of correct principles while her contemporaries were sometimes right and often wrong. He wrote a series of articles for the Review and Herald, the church's paper, in which he reviewed some of his findings. In his summary at the end, he wrote, "Her basic concepts about the relation between diet and health have been verified to an unusual degree by scientific advances of the past decades. [This is all the more true today.--WF] Someone may attempt to explain this remarkable fact by saying: 'Mrs. White simply borrowed her ideas from other.' But how would she know which ideas to borrow and which to reject out of the bewildering array of theories and health teachings current in the nineteenth century? She would have to have been a most amazing person, with knowledge beyond her times, in order to do this successfully!" A little later, he concluded, "In spite of the fact that the works of Mrs. White were written long before the advent of modern scientific nutrition, no better over-all guide is available today."
She did not take credit to herself for these things. She always attributed them to the visions she received. The counsel that came from those visions has stood the test of time.
I hope this will be helpful to you. Let me know if I can be of further service. Thank you for writing, and God bless!
William Fagal
Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600 U.S.A.
Web: www.WhiteEstate.org
I am a 27 year old university student. Majoring in Nutritional Studies. I was inspired to follow this path after the many books and health advice from Ellen G. White. I have one question though. The nutritinal advice she offers in her countless books on nutrition and health are these writings inspirational. Was she a nutritionist? Was it from her own opinion? I'd appreciate a response.
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