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Norman M. Kaplan, M.D., professor of internal medicine and head of the hypertension section of the University of Texas’ Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, is considered one of the foremost (if not the number one) authority on hypertension (high blood pressure) in the world. Speaking to more than 1,000 health-care professionals attending the Lifestyle Medicine convention at Loma Linda University School of Health in the summer of 1983, Dr. Kaplan addressed particularly the Seventh-day Adventists in his audience with these words: GVEGW 104.4

“You as Adventists may have espoused a certain dietary lifestyle on the basis of faith, in the past; but now you can practice it on the basis of scientific evidence. Hopefully you will not [go back and re] join the main stream, but [rather] adhere to your health heritage.” 96 GVEGW 104.5

One year later William Herbert Foege, M.D., M.P.H., director for the Center for Disease Control, United States Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia, under the administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (1977-1983), spoke at a Loma Linda University School of Health “Update” on Monday, March 5, 1984. He declared emphatically, “You Seventh-day Adventists are now the role model for the rest of the world.” 97 GVEGW 105.1