{"id":10575,"date":"2012-03-23T11:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=10575"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:16:49","slug":"march-23-2012-seventh-day-adventists-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2012\/03\/23\/march-23-2012-seventh-day-adventists-and-health\/10575\/","title":{"rendered":" Seventh-day Adventists and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/rss\/media\/video\/episode.1530.adventist.health.m4v --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SAUL GONZALEZ<\/strong>, correspondent: If growing old means growing slow, well  then 89-year-old Delmar Holbrooke hasn\u2019t gotten the memo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DELMAR  HOLBROOKE<\/strong>: I\u2019m really getting ready for 90, \u201cthe big 9-0.\u201d My family is already planning it. I am going to ski up at Mountain High early in the  morning, come down and play a round of golf, and then head out to the  beach to surf.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: You\u2019re not a sit on the couch kind of guy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOLBROOKE<\/strong>: No way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2012\/03\/post01-adventisthealth.jpg\" alt=\"Delmar Holbrooke\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Holbrooke credits his energy to a life of exercise and healthy eating, but also his faith.<\/p>\n<p>(to Holbrooke): Would you be as healthy as you are, in your opinion, without your faith?<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOLBROOKE<\/strong>: Oh, no, no. I am what I am because of my faith. To me that is just as clear as can be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>:  Like many other residents of Loma Linda, California, Holbrooke is a  Seventh-day Adventist. That\u2019s the Christian denomination that observes  the Sabbath on Saturday. Adventists also emphasize a healthy diet and lifestyle as important expressions of their faith, and because of that emphasis, researchers say Adventists often have remarkably good health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSOR LARRY BEESON<\/strong> (Loma Linda University): Adventists have an evidence of living longer and dying at a later age. They die of the diseases of the general population, but at a much later age\u2014eight, ten years later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Larry Beeson is an associate professor of public health and epidemiology at Loma Linda University. It\u2019s a health  and science institute affiliated with Seventh-day Adventists that\u2019s been studying members of the faith since 1958.<\/p>\n<p>(to Beeson): And they get to that age\u2026?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2012\/03\/post02-adventisthealth.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Larry Beeson\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><strong>BEESON<\/strong>:  \u2026through a variety of different things. It\u2019s not just one thing. It is their religious\u2014how they relate to God and their fellow man, their diet,  their exercise, their avoidance of tobacco and alcohol. All of that collectively contributes to longevity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: And because it  has such a high percentage of Adventists who live long and active lives,  researchers have dubbed Loma Linda one of five so-called health Blue  Zones in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEESON<\/strong>: A Blue Zone is just an area where there is an unusual occurrence or more than what we would expect of  people who live to be the late 90s, early 100s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Diet  seems to be especially important to Adventists\u2019 good health and long  life expectancy. Nearly 30 percent of Seventh-day Adventists practice  some form of vegetarianism compared to only about three percent for the  US population as a whole. In fact, at many Adventist institutions, such  as the Loma Linda Health Center, only vegetarian meals are served.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PASTOR  DANIEL MATHEWS<\/strong>(Loma Linda University Church of Seventh-day Adventists): I do follow a plant-based diet and have followed a  vegetarian diet all my life, and I know you and all your viewers are  going to look at me strangely, but I never tasted any meat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Dan Mathews is a third-generation Seventh-day Adventist and a pastor.  We talked to him about the connection between diet, health, and  religious belief within his faith tradition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2012\/03\/post03-adventisthealth.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Daniel Mathews\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><strong>MATHEWS<\/strong>: Genesis 21:29 states that God gave mankind grains and fruits and nuts and  herbs bearing seeds\u2014the initiation of a plant-based diet. To not take  care of our bodies, which is a part of the stewardship of the earth, to  not take care of our bodies is an affront to our God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIRGINIA CROUNSE<\/strong>: I feel good. Yeah, I do. I feel energetic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>:  We met seventy-three-year-old Adventist Virginia Crounse as she was  relaxing in a whirlpool. She shared her diet and fitness routines with  us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CROUNSE<\/strong>: I actually eat most of the time two meals a day.  I\u2019ll eat like granola or oatmeal for breakfast with two or three fruits,  fresh fruit. As long as I can remember, I exercise daily, at least six  days a week. I walk at least two miles, rain, sun, or snow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>:  It\u2019s not well known, but Seventh-day Adventism has already made its  mark on American culinary history in what millions of people eat each  and every morning. It\u2019s the creation and mass marketing of breakfast  cereal by a guy named Kellogg. That\u2019s John Harvey Kellogg and his  brother, Will Kellogg, both Seventh-day Adventists who developed corn  flakes, one of the first mass-marketed breakfast cereals, in the late  19th century. They saw cereal as a health food alternative to the fatty  breakfast foods of their day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2012\/03\/post04-adventisthealth.jpg\" alt=\"post04-adventisthealth\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><strong>BEESON<\/strong>: Corn flakes and the other  kinds of foods that came out of the Kellogg\u2019s industry was really trying  to deal with the whole grain thing and not trying to throw away all the  nutrients when you refine and become white bread. You\u2019re throwing a lot  of nutrients away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: In our own time, as Americans  search for ways to improve their diets and health, some researchers  believe they can borrow some simple lifestyle ideas from Seventh-day  Adventists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEESON<\/strong>: Reducing your smoking, reducing your  saturated fat intake, exercising more\u2014all that can be done by anybody.  They don\u2019t have to become an Adventist to gain the benefits that we\u2019ve  observed in the Adventist health study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: It is accessible to all of us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEESON<\/strong>: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: At the pool, Delmar Holbrooke has his own advice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOLBROOKE<\/strong>: You have to keep your mind alive and continuing to grow, and your body just as much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GONZALEZ<\/strong>: For Religion &amp; Ethics Newsweekly, I\u2019m Saul Gonzalez in Loma Linda, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How they relate to God and their fellow man, their diet, their exercise, their avoidance of tobacco and alcohol\u2014all of that collectively contributes to longevity,&#8221; says Loma Linda University public health professor Larry Beeson. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2012\/03\/23\/march-23-2012-seventh-day-adventists-and-health\/10575\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":17637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[4784,1167,17908,8308,5479],"class_list":["post-10575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-elderly","tag-food","tag-health","tag-human-longevity","tag-seventh-day-adventist","topics-culture-and-society","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>March 23, 2012 ~ Seventh-day Adventists and Health | March 23, 2012 | Religion &amp; 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