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, PhD, a registered dietitian nutritionist who graduated from the Loma Linda University School of Public Health and is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Westerdahl, who grew up in a different religious environment, was attracted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a Protestant Christian denomination, in part because of its strong emphasis on nutrition and health.“In Genesis 129, [it reads] ‘And God said, behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
“The Bible is very specific and says do not eat of these foods,” says Westerdahl. “The ‘clean’ animals are the ones that eat leaves, grass and so forth.” Westerdahl is vegan, as is his 21-year-old daughter, who lives and studies health in Loma Linda. He’s observed a spike in this stricter type of dieting among fellow Seventh-day Adventists because of the way livestock are commonly mistreated.
“For us with veganism, there’s a health standpoint as well as an aspect of believing in treating animals in a nice way,” he says.
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