You Should Read This
How This Book Came to Be
Decades before many physiologists were concerned with the close
relationship between diet and health, Ellen G. White in her writings
clearly pointed out the connection between the food we eat and our
physical and spiritual welfare. In her discourses and writings from
1863 onward, she discussed frequently the importance of diet and ade-
quate nutrition. Her counsels, as preserved in pamphlets and books,
in the journals of the denomination, and in personal testimonies, have
exerted a strong influence on the dietetic habits of Seventh-day Ad-
ventists, and indirectly have left their impress upon the general public.
Mrs. White’s writings regarding foods and a healthful diet were
drawn together in 1926 in a topically arranged work designed to serve
primarily as a textbook for students of dietetics at the College of Med-
ical Evangelists at Loma Linda. This initial printing, titled Testimony
Studies on Diet and Foods, was soon exhausted.
A new and enlarged volume, titled Counsels on Diet and Foods,
Appeared in 1938. It was referred to as a “second edition,” and was
prepared under the direction of the Board of Trustees of the Ellen
G. White Estate. A third edition, printed in a smaller page size to
conform to the requirements of the Christian Home Library series, was
published in 1946. The present edition is the fourth, and involves no
change in text or pagination.
This Is a Unique Compilation
In assembling the materials comprising Counsels on Diet and
Foods, an effort was made to include the full range of instruction
on the subject from Mrs. White’s pen. The resulting compilation is
unique among the Ellen G. White books,
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for it presents the counsels clustered topically under a general
heading, with no attempt to provide a continuity in reading.
Each section contains the E. G. White materials that, assembled,
make a representative presentation of the topic dealt with. Nothing that
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