Did Mrs. White get her message from other people and claim it came from God?
Dr. Clive McCay, a noted nutrition authority half a century after Mrs. Whites day, said that you could not account so easily as this for what she wrote. Dr. McCay, a Unitarian who taught the history of nutrition at Cornell University, received a copy of Counsels on Diet and Foods from an Adventist graduate student. He was astonished at what he read there, each statement identified by the year of its publication. For any given year, Dr. McCay knew who had been writing on nutrition and what they had written. “Who was this Ellen G. White,” he asked, “and why havent I heard of her before?” Impressed. Dr. McCay was so impressed by Ellen Whites writings on nutrition that he authored a three-part series of articles for the Review and Herald. Note a portion of his summation at the end: “To sum up the discussion: Every modern specialist in nutrition whose life is dedicated to human welfare must be impressed . . . by the writings and leadership of Ellen G. White. “In the first place, her basic c
