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The Vegetarian Diet

Since 1954 more than 250 articles have been published in scientific journals on Adventist lifestyle and health. In the 1960s Loma Linda University, in cooperation with the National Cancer Institute, began to study the health of SDAs. Later, in the 1970s and 1980s, data on the Adventist lifestyle was collected and analyzed under contract with the National Institutes of Health. Adventists, in general, have 50 percent less risk of heart disease, certain types of cancers, strokes, and diabetes. Read more...

Vitamin B12 for the Vegetarian

Vitamin B12, an essential B vitamin, is of special interest to vegetarians since it is not found in any significant amounts in plant foods. In addition, vitamin B12 deficiency can result in detrimental changes in certain body functions. It is required for the normal maturation of red blood cells and also for the synthesis of the myelin sheath of nerve tissue. Read more...

Dietary Fat

With the present state of knowledge, the Surgeon General's Report, the National Academy of Sciences Food and Nutrition Board, the American Heart Association, the National Cancer Institute, the Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease Resources, the American Medical Association, the National Cholesterol Education Program, and the American Health Foundation recommend a fat intake of less than 30% of the daily calories. Based on scientific research a diet severely restricted in fat may not provide adequate nutrition.
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Trans Fatty Acids

With the discovery that saturated fats have adverse effects upon blood lipids, people turned to vegetable oils as a safe replacement for the highly saturated animal fats - the lard, beef tallow and butter used in cooking and in table spreads. Now some researchers are warning us that the plant oils may not be as safe as we once thought they were.
Read more...

Dietary Fat Replacers

Fat substitutes are made from carbohydrate, protein, fat, or a combination of these components. Carbohydrate-based fat substitutes include gums, aligns from kelp, modified food starches or oat and wheat fiber. The carbohydrate-based fat substitutes absorb water and imitate the thickness and creaminess of fat and are useful in some baked products, processed meat products, spreads, dips, frostings, soups, and frozen desserts.
Read more...

Vegetarian Meat Substitutes

For more than 125 years, Seventh-day Adventists have advocated a vegetarian diet. This is consistent with the belief in the wholistic nature of man and that whatever is done should be to the honor and glory of God. Our Creator has provided a plan that can yield a healthy, vibrant life. The vegetarian diet should be part of this healthy lifestyle and numerous scientific studies now confirm that this can lead to significant health benefits with greater length and quality of life.
Read more...

Milk Replacers

Soy milk was first developed in the US by John Harvey Kellogg, who was the inventor of corn flakes and granola and head of the Battle Creek Sanitarium for over 50 years. A student of Kellogg's, Dr. Harry W. Miller took Kellogg's knowledge of soy milk with him to China. Miller developed processes to make the soy milk more palatable and began production on a factory-scale in China in 1936.
Read more...

A Diabetic Diet

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by high blood sugar levels (hyperinsulinemia) which do not return to below 120 mg/dl even after a high sugar meal and after the person has been on a high carbohydrate diet for three days. It results from inadequate production or utilization of insulin.
Read more...

How Diet Can Reduce Cancer Risk

Seventh-day Adventist men have approximately one-half the cancer rate found in the general population. This occurs even in cancers unrelated to tobacco and alcohol both of which are known carcinogens. A likely factor is that many Seventh-day Adventists are vegetarians. This diet contains less animal fat and more fruits and vegetables.
Read more...

Herbs and Herbal Teas

Herbs have been important contributors to the quality of human life for thousands of years. Throughout history plants have served mankind as valuable components of seasonings, teas, cosmetics, dyes and medicines. The term herbs is used to refer not only to herbaceous plants but also to bark, roots, leaves, seeds, flowers and fruit of trees, shrubs and woody vines.
Read more...

First Foods for Infants

By four to six months of age babies can hold their heads up when sitting and turn away if they do not want more food. They are interested when others are eating and open their mouths when food is presented to them. By this time the baby's digestive processes are ready to assimilate food other than milk. All this indicates their readiness for solid food.
Read more...

Teen Health and Fitness

If you want a firm body, stress relief, healthier skin, more self-confidence, increased energy, less depression, improved digestion and regularity, weight control and reduced risk of heart disease and cancer - exercise regularly! Make a conscious effort to include exercise in your daily routine until it becomes habit. Once you experience how good exercise makes you feel you gotta have it.
Read more...

Nutrition and Aging

Between 1950 and 1980 the number of 65-year-olds doubled. Today they make up 12 percent of the population in America. Between 1960 and 1980 the over-85 crowd has increased 281 percent. The numbers of those over 100 continue to increase, with 32,000 in 1980; 62,000 in 1990; and a projected 600,000 by 2050. Chances are you will get there. The good news is that you are in charge of a major share of how you get there. The deadly killers are not usually acute infections, but rather chronic diseases.
Read more...

Use of Multi Vitamin Mineral Supplements

Some people believe they need additional vitamins for extra energy. Some believe that cancer, heart disease, the common cold, arthritis and other disease are caused by mineral and vitamin deficiencies. Many people believe that a faulty diet is a major cause of their health problems. Consumers often claim that they need dietary supplements because depleted soils and the heavy refining of foods have produced food that is deficient in nutrients. Enthusiasts would have you believe that vitamin and mineral pills can delay old age, offset the ill effects of stress, cure aches and pains and give you a better memory.
Read more...

Do I Need Supplements?

Claims and counterclaims for nutritional supplements vie for the consumer’s dollar. Is one supplement better than another? Are they of any benefit? Do you need them? Most supplements are single vitamins, minerals, or a combination of both. These are just two of the categories of nutrients that are essential to health.
Read more...

Raw Foods Diet

There is a growing belief among some that a raw food diet comprised of uncooked foods is the best and healthiest diet and that it most closely resembles the original vegetarian diet. Some even have the impression that raw foods have curative and health-promoting properties not afforded by a diet containing cooked foods. Those who eat the raw food diet claim that it gives them more energy and enhances mental acuity.
Read more...

The Use of Caffeine

Caffeine is a commonly consumed drug. It is found in various beverages such as tea, coffee, cola-flavored carbonated beverages and in chocolate products. Caffeine is also added to a variety of other carbonated beverages and is an ingredient in a number of non-prescription drugs such as headache, cold, allergy, pain relief, and stay awake pills.
Read more...

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Dieta vegetariana

Desde 1945 se han publicado 250 artículos en revistas científicas sobre el estilo de vida y la salud de los adventistas. En la década de los años sesenta, la Universidad Loma Linda, en conjunto con el Instituto Nacional del Cáncer, comenzó a estudiar la salud de los adventistas. Más tarde, en la década de los años setenta y ochenta, se reunieron los datos obtenidos en dichos estudios y fueron analizados bajo contrato con los Institutos Nacionales de Salud
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Vitamina B12 para los vegetarianos

La vitamina B12, una vitamina B esencial, es de interés especial para los vegetarianos porque no se encuentra en cantidad suficiente en alimentos de origen vegetal. Además, la deficiencia de vitamina B12 puede dar como resultado cambios destructivos en ciertas funciones del organismo. Se requiere para la maduración de los glóbulos rojos y también en la síntesis de la mielina o vaina de las fibras nerviosas.
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Dietary Fat

With the present state of knowledge, the Surgeon General's Report, the National Academy of Sciences Food and Nutrition Board, the American Heart Association, the National Cancer Institute, the Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease Resources, the American Medical Association, the National Cholesterol Education Program, and the American Health Foundation recommend a fat intake of less than 30% of the daily calories. Based on scientific research a diet severely restricted in fat may not provide adequate nutrition.
Leer más...

Trans Fatty Acids

With the discovery that saturated fats have adverse effects upon blood lipids, people turned to vegetable oils as a safe replacement for the highly saturated animal fats - the lard, beef tallow and butter used in cooking and in table spreads. Now some researchers are warning us that the plant oils may not be as safe as we once thought they were.
Leer más...

Dietary Fat Replacers

Fat substitutes are made from carbohydrate, protein, fat, or a combination of these components. Carbohydrate-based fat substitutes include gums, aligns from kelp, modified food starches or oat and wheat fiber. The carbohydrate-based fat substitutes absorb water and imitate the thickness and creaminess of fat and are useful in some baked products, processed meat products, spreads, dips, frostings, soups, and frozen desserts.
Leer más...

Vegetarian Meat Substitutes

For more than 125 years, Seventh-day Adventists have advocated a vegetarian diet. This is consistent with the belief in the wholistic nature of man and that whatever is done should be to the honor and glory of God. Our Creator has provided a plan that can yield a healthy, vibrant life. The vegetarian diet should be part of this healthy lifestyle and numerous scientific studies now confirm that this can lead to significant health benefits with greater length and quality of life.
Leer más...

Milk Replacers

Soy milk was first developed in the us by John Harvey Kellogg, who was the inventor of corn flakes and granola and head of the Battle Creek Sanitarium for over 50 years. A student of Kellogg's, Dr. Harry W. Miller took Kellogg's knowledge of soy milk with him to China. Miller developed processes to make the soy milk more palatable and began production on a factory-scale in China in 1936.
Leer más...

A Diabetic Diet

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by high blood sugar levels (hyperinsulinemia) which do not return to below 120 mg/dl even after a high sugar meal and after the person has been on a high carbohydrate diet for three days. It results from inadequate production or utilization of insulin.
Leer más...

How Diet Can Reduce Cancer Risk

Seventh-day Adventist men have approximately one-half the cancer rate found in the general population. This occurs even in cancers unrelated to tobacco and alcohol both of which are known carcinogens. A likely factor is that many Seventh-day Adventists are vegetarians. This diet contains less animal fat and more fruits and vegetables.
Leer más...

Herbs and Herbal Teas

Herbs have been important contributors to the quality of human life for thousands of years. Throughout history plants have served mankind as valuable components of seasonings, teas, cosmetics, dyes and medicines. The term herbs is used to refer not only to herbaceous plants but also to bark, roots, leaves, seeds, flowers and fruit of trees, shrubs and woody vines.
Leer más...

First Foods for Infants

By four to six months of age babies can hold their heads up when sitting and turn away if they do not want more food. They are interested when others are eating and open their mouths when food is presented to them. By this time the baby's digestive processes are ready to assimilate food other than milk. All this indicates their readiness for solid food.
Leer más...

Teen Health and Fitness

If you want a firm body, stress relief, healthier skin, more self-confidence, increased energy, less depression, improved digestion and regularity, weight control and reduced risk of heart disease and cancer - exercise regularly! Make a conscious effort to include exercise in your daily routine until it becomes habit. Once you experience how good exercise makes you feel you gotta have it.
Leer más...

Nutrition and Aging

Between 1950 and 1980 the number of 65-year-olds doubled. Today they make up 12 percent of the population in America. Between 1960 and 1980 the over-85 crowd has increased 281 percent. The numbers of those over 100 continue to increase, with 32,000 in 1980; 62,000 in 1990; and a projected 600,000 by 2050. Chances are you will get there. The good news is that you are in charge of a major share of how you get there. The deadly killers are not usually acute infections, but rather chronic diseases.
Leer más...

Use of Multi Vitamin Mineral Supplements

Some people believe they need additional vitamins for extra energy. Some believe that cancer, heart disease, the common cold, arthritis and other disease are caused by mineral and vitamin deficiencies. Many people believe that a faulty diet is a major cause of their health problems. Consumers often claim that they need dietary supplements because depleted soils and the heavy refining of foods have produced food that is deficient in nutrients. Enthusiasts would have you believe that vitamin and mineral pills can delay old age, offset the ill effects of stress, cure aches and pains and give you a better memory.
Leer más...

Do I Need Supplements?

Claims and counterclaims for nutritional supplements vie for the consumer’s dollar. Is one supplement better than another? Are they of any benefit? Do you need them? Most supplements are single vitamins, minerals, or a combination of both. These are just two of the categories of nutrients that are essential to health.
Leer más...

Raw Foods Diet

There is a growing belief among some that a raw food diet comprised of uncooked foods is the best and healthiest diet and that it most closely resembles the original vegetarian diet. Some even have the impression that raw foods have curative and health-promoting properties not afforded by a diet containing cooked foods. Those who eat the raw food diet claim that it gives them more energy and enhances mental acuity.
Leer más...

The Use of Caffeine

Caffeine is a commonly consumed drug. It is found in various beverages such as tea, coffee, cola-flavored carbonated beverages and in chocolate products. Caffeine is also added to a variety of other carbonated beverages and is an ingredient in a number of non-prescription drugs such as headache, cold, allergy, pain relief, and stay awake pills.
Leer más...