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October 22, 1999
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10th World Congress on Food Science Hears How Adventists 
Have Contributed

Sydney, Australia. (ANN/APD)    A paper examining the impact of 
the Seventh-day Adventist Church on eating habits was 
presented at the 10th World Congress of Food Science and 
Technology in Sydney on October 7.

"Health Impacts of Adventist Food and Diet" showed how in the 
past 150 years the Church built clinics, companies, health food 
shops, hospitals and universities to help people live more 
healthfully.

Authors Sue Radd, consultant nutritionist for the Sanitarium 
Health Food Company, and Dr. Harley Stanton, associate director 
of the South Pacific Division Adventist Health Department, 
explained that most of the "health foods" now regarded as 
staples, such as grain-based breakfast cereals and soy-based 
meat alternatives, were invented at the Battle Creek (Michigan, 
USA) Sanitarium.

"I would speculate the majority of Australians have unwittingly 
benefited from the health advances made possible by Seventh-
day Adventists," said Radd. "The church has been influential in 
increasing the longevity and reducing the morbidity of its 
members, but when you consider a bowl of cereal is the most 
popular and nutritious start to the day, it's apparent its reach has 
gone a lot further."