Seventh Day Adventist Archives

A Perspective on Seventh-day Adventist Hermeneutics

Adventist life-style or selective factors related to who choosesto become and remain a Seventh-Day Adventist aredescribed. A comparison ofthe mortality experienceof Seventh-Day Adventist and non-Seventh-DayAdventist physiciansshows equal cancermortality, which is consistentwith the hypoth

The Seventh-Day Adventist population abstains from smoking and drinking; about 50% follow a lac to-ovo-vegetanian diet; and most avoid the use of coffee, tea, hot condiments, and spices. Existing data on cancer mortality in Seventh-Day Adventists clearly document mortality rates that are 50 to 70% of general population rates for most cancer sites that are unrelated to smoking and drinking. Seve...

Dietary assessment of males from Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Warsaw.

The main purpose of this research was to assess the quality and quantity of daily food rations and the intakes of selected nutrients by males aged 30 to 50 years--the Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) from the Warsaw assembly. The assessment of the daily intakes of nutrients showed no significant difference from recommended values formulated by National Food and Nutrition Institute in Warsaw. Daily ...

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among Seventh-day Adventist African American and Caucasian college students.

All age, sex, and racial groups are affected by the obesity epidemic in the United States, although disparities exist among these groups. The Seventh-day Adventists are a religious group of people who are believed to live longer and healthier lives than do their non-Adventist counterparts because they do not smoke or drink alcohol and they eat a healthier diet. This study assessed the prevalenc...

Metabolic syndrome and obesity among workers at Kanye Seventh-Day Adventist Hospital, Botswana.

INTRODUCTION Metabolic syndrome and obesity are risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or cardiovascular disease, especially stroke. There is evidence worldwide of the high prevalence of these pathologies in health care providers. OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of metabolic syndrome, overweight, obesity and risk of developing metabolic syndrome in workers at Kanye Sev...