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Ellen G. White, vegetarian and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Seventh-day Adventists present a health message that recommends vegetarianism and expects abstinence from pork, shellfish and other foods proscribed as "unclean" in Leviticus. [66]
Many Seventh-day Adventist followers are ovo-lacto vegetarians and have recommended a vegetarian diet, which may include milk products and eggs, since late 19th century. [ 14 ] Health effects
Since the Seventh-day Adventist Church began in the 1860s, it has advocated its members to eat a vegetarian diet, [50] particularly the consumption of kosher foods described in Leviticus 11, [51] [52] meaning abstinence from pork, rabbit, shellfish, and other animals proscribed as "unclean". [51]
Fraser's new study showed that vegetarian Adventists living into their 80s and beyond suffered slightly higher rates of strokes, dementia, and Parkinson's disease than other Adventists who ate ...
Some Christian groups, such as Seventh-day Adventists, the Christian Vegetarian Association and Christian anarchists, take a literal interpretation of the Biblical prophecies of universal vegetarianism (or veganism) [Genesis 1:29–1:31, Isaiah 11:6–11:9, Isaiah 65:25] and encourage these practices as preferred lifestyles or as a tool to ...
Diehl was a lifelong Seventh-day Adventist. [11] He became a lacto-ovo vegetarian in 1967. He adopted a whole-food plant-based diet in 1997. [3] He was married to Lily Pan Diehl a pianist and singer, they had two children. [12]
Adventist Health Studies (AHS) is a series of long-term medical research projects of Loma Linda University with the intent to measure the link between lifestyle, diet, disease and mortality of Seventh-day Adventists. Seventh-day Adventists have a lower risk than other Americans of certain diseases, and many researchers hypothesize that this is ...
Other denominations that advocate a vegetarian diet include the Seventh-day Adventists, the Rastafari movement, the Ananda Marga movement and the Hare Krishnas. Sikhism [ 119 ] [ 120 ] does not equate spirituality with diet and does not specify a vegetarian or meat diet.