"Ellen White was personally interested in health. She struggled with health. She was frail and weak. And there were several terrible tragedies in her family that stimulated her practical interest in health. James and Ellen White had a little boy, John Herbert, who was born in 1860, in October. Three months later he got a terrible bacterial inflammation of the skin, and he died in December. I'm sure that broke her heart. And then in 1863, the same year that she had the comprehensive vision on health, her oldest son - her firstborn son who was then 16 - died of pneumonia. And then in 1865 James White had a debilitating stroke in what almost amounts to a nervous breakdown, which took him two years to recover from. So health issues impacted her family profoundly." Charles White, Ellen's grandson
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"Health coaches should be partnering with doctors to give patients advice that doctors either may not be able to give or may not have the time to give. So they could be nutritionists, or an exercise physiologist, or just anyone who's trained to teach people how to live a good lifestyle, which can include you know the tenets of the Seventh-day Adventists, just anything that can give them real solutions. How do they go about exercising if they don’t want to join a gym? How do they go about working movement into their life? How do they shop at the supermarket for the right kinds of foods? Things like that, that a doctor says, “Hey, that's not my job.” Deborah Kotz, Senior Writer, US News and World Report
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