Answer: Yes, there is a GC Nutrition Council
composed by 30 members, men and women, who are experts in
nutrition, representing the various Divisions worldwide, including
Loma Linda and other universities.
This council has elaborated several position
statements and guidelines over the years on various issues to
assist professionals and lay people in making wise nutritional
choices. Here is a list of actually available documents at the
General Conference Health Ministries Department:
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Planning Fellowship Dinners
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Dietary Fat
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The Vegetarian Diet
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The Use of Caffeine
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How Diet Can Reduce Cancer
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Diabetes Maturity Onset
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Trans Fatty Acids: How Safe Are They?
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First Food for Infants
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Vitamin B12 for the Vegetarian
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Meat Analogs as Part of the Vegetarian
Lifestyle
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The Use of Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
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Herbs and Herbal Teas
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Phytochemicals: Guardians of Our Health
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Non-Dairy Beverages
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Dietary Fat Replacers
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Nutrition for Successful Aging
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Teen Health and Fitness
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Do You Need Supplements?
Most of these documents have been translated
into different languages and were published in local Church
journals. They should be available as pamphlets at your Union’s
Health Ministries Department. The English documents are also
available on the Internet at: http://www.andrews.edu/NUFS/GCNCindex.html
We also suggest you to take a look at the SDA
Dietetic Association website: http://www.sdada.org
