Do not go to extremes in regard to the health reform. Some of our people are very careless in regard to health reform. But because some are far behind, you must not, in order to be an example to them, be an extremist. You must not deprive yourself of that class of food which makes good blood. Your devotion to true principles is leading you to submit yourself to a diet which is giving you an experience that will not recommend health reform. This is your danger. When you see that you are becoming weak physically, it is essential for you to make changes, and at once. Put into your diet something you have left out. It is your duty to do this. Get eggs of healthy fowls. Use these eggs cooked or raw. Drop them uncooked into the best unfermented wine you can find. This will supply that which is necessary to your system. Do not for a moment suppose that it will not be right to do this. . . . {TSDF 40.4}

I don't remember ever saying I had pernicious anemia, but if I did, I should have said megaloblastic anemia. Pernicious anemia is one form of megaloblastic anemia, but there are other forms.

I was never tested, so far as I am aware, specifically for B12. The blood tests were of the more usual variety with such things as MCV, etc. (Note that it was a vegan doctor who ran the blood test on me, and perhaps he knew better than to open the case with B12.) I am not a doctor. It is quite possible that I have not fully understood things in their correct light relative to the diagnoses I was given. I know simply that the vegan doctor who first looked at the test said that there was nothing wrong with me, and that if I was experiencing fatigue, it must be due to lack of exercise. I was, however, not at all short on exercise in that period of my life. It may have been, in fact, one of the most active periods of my life. I was working outdoors half of the day, in addition to other sports activities, hiking, etc. that I enjoyed at that time. I phoned the results of the blood test to another doctor, and received a more correct diagnosis. It was clear that the vegan doctor did not wish to admit that the vegan diet had brought me to such a condition.

Health reform or health deform? Let the reader decide. I know simply that the eggs brought me out of the condition I was in when nothing else could have--a condition I had never experienced prior to becoming vegan, nor have ever experienced after leaving veganism.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

APL,

You can be a vegan. I don't criticize you for it. I criticize, rightly, vegans who teach others that they should be vegans too. In our modern Adventist movement, many are taking extreme views on this topic and urging them upon others. I am trying to uphold balance, and to alert people to the fact that we are never counseled to give up milk and eggs until God reveals to us that it is time to do so.

I have asked you several times if God has revealed this to you...and you have not answered. You, as many do, seem to base your diet upon your own opinion of the times. That is between you and God.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

We appreciate your experience as a physician, and yet I say that milk and eggs should be included in your diet. These things cannot at present be dispensed with, and the doctrine of dispensing with them should not be taught. {TSDF 49.1}
You are in danger of taking too radical a view of health reform, and of prescribing for yourself a diet that will not sustain you. {TSDF 49.2}
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God calls upon those for whom Christ died to take proper care of themselves, and set a right example to others. My brother, you are not to make a test for the people of God upon the question of diet; for they will lose confidence in teachings that are strained to the farthest point of extension. The Lord desires His people to be sound on every point in health reform, but we must not go to extremes. {TSDF 49.4}

The body of evidence is that a plant based diet simply prepared will reverse and prevent most of our chronic illnesses.

APL,

If you, knowing everything you know and could know about health choose to become deficient in that which you need through extremism, there is one who criticizes you, and it's not me.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

I was never tested, so far as I am aware, specifically for B12....
I know simply that the vegan doctor who first looked at the test said that there was nothing wrong with me...
I phoned the results of the blood test to another doctor, and received a more correct diagnosis....

I know simply that the eggs brought me out of the condition I was in when nothing else could have--a condition I had never experienced prior to becoming vegan, nor have ever experienced after leaving veganism.

I should add that I had only early stages.

I did not have the condition for an extended period of time. I was vegan for only about 7 months or so when the condition began,

There was never a fully conclusive diagnosis,

In any case, eggs "make good blood" according to Mrs. White, and this proved true in my case.

APL,

If you, knowing everything you know and could know about health choose to become deficient in that which you need through extremism, there is one who criticizes you, and it's not me.

But it appears even in your post here that your choices are far from individual. You are teaching others in accordance with your own extreme views.

These things cannot at present be dispensed with,