A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health
Chapter 7—Whatsoever Ye Eat Or Drink
In this chapter the often misunderstood and frequently abused subject of food is discussed. This is a subject on which many people are inclined to go to extremes. 1 Ellen White emerges in Prophetess of Health as one who proscribes articles of diet most people enjoy. The last glimpse we get of her in the closing paragraph of the chapter is of an aged woman “happily subsisting on a simple twice-a-day diet of vermicelli-tomato soup or thistle greens ‘seasoned with sterilized cream and lemon juice.’” Only by taking isolated statements and giving them the most extreme interpretation can such an image be created. It is a distorted image. CBPH 74.12