My mother always used to say to me that you are what you eat, and I never really used to grasp the enormity of that saying. In my brain, all I could think of is that I am going to get fat.

I have come to learn that it’s more than gaining weight and buying a bigger-size dress.
I have learned that a healthy diet is not just about eating less it’s also about what you eat. A healthy diet means healthy food.
Healthy food provides the body’s cells with all the nutrients they need to perform their functions which in turn helps to protect the body against
diseases like diabetes, cholesterol, joint pains, aging skin, heart diseases, and even issues with sexual health.

About two years ago, I started a weight loss journey which turned into a health journey. In the beginning, I was so obsessed with losing weight because I wanted to make everyone happy and fit into society’s idea of the perfect body. However, as I started feeling the benefits of eating healthy, cutting out alcohol totally, exercising daily both physically and mentally, I stopped looking at my journey as a weight loss one but more to be healthy and be better than the woman I was yesterday.

I started reading up on Ellen G White and specifically looking at her Councils on Diet and Food. She was an amazing woman and writer blessed with a gift from God.

What was interesting was that all the advice she’d given on what to eat and what to avoid, what’s healthy, what’s not, up to Intermitted fasting and the benefits of it.
She had preached about it, taught people about it and have even written books about it way back then. Yet it is as relevant as the daily health update on the internet today.

From the site  The Health Message | Ellen G White Truth www.ellenwhitetruth.com 

I came across an article from which I’d like to share a few paragraphs with you.

Please feel free to read the full article in the link I have provided.

The Health Message

“Ellen White understood the biblical picture of the indivisible unity of body, mind, and spirit. She saw clearly that the interacting and integration of these three components required the health of each so that all components would function effectively. In other words, whatever affected the body also affected the mind and the spirit. If the mind was not properly filled with the proper food and rest, as well as positive, rational thoughts, then both the body and spirit would perform less efficiently.

The chief concern for Ellen was the impact of poor health in either the mind or body on the spiritual life. She insisted, “Anything that lessens physical strength enfeebles the mind and makes it less capable of discriminating between right and wrong. We become less capable of choosing the good and have less strength of will to do that which we know to be right” (Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 346).

Ellen followed a step-by-step path in developing her health principles. Early on, she led out, contrary to the medical world at the time, in emphasizing the dangers of tobacco, tea, and coffee. This led to vision-informed principles that stressed a vegetarian diet, self-control in eating, and the danger of rich cakes, pies, puddings (with their high cholesterol).

She also stressed drinking plenty of pure water, getting exercise, avoiding poisonous drugs (which in the 19th century were highly toxic), and even suggested against conventional wisdom at the time that parents transmit their weaknesses to their children. She also believed that while manual labor helps to cheer a disposition, overwork — in even doing good — breaks down mental as well as physical health.”