Whole-person
OUTLOOK editor Brenda Dickerson recently sat down with Heather Quintana to talk about the purpose and impact of Vibrant Life magazine, the nation’s oldest >Mind >Body >Spirit health journal. Heather, as the editor of Vibrant Life, tell us about the magazine’s history and mission.
your last family gathering you ate a really healthy plant-based meal and then you all went for a walk, but the whole time you were Since Vibrant Life was fighting about politics, and launched over 130 years ago you couldn’t get along with it has had various names, your sister, and the grandbut the purpose has always kids were all mad? It would been the same: to represent not be an entirely healthy whole-person health—men- event because you would tal, physical and spiritual. not be experiencing peace It’s been a real joy to work or joy. Being healthy is not with the magazine for these just “eat some broccoli and past 12 years. We’ve gone go for a run.” through several redesigns, but the message is always to How does Vibrant Life align with the principles keep your mind, body and Ellen G. White, our spirit healthy because they Adventist Church coare all connected. founder, laid out in her
Yes, we are in a health crisis in America that goes beyond just diet and exercise. We clearly need help in other areas as well.
writings?
Ellen White’s book The Ministry of Healing offers simple advice like don’t overwork and don’t overeat. If you’re stressed, go For so long people out into nature and take a thought that being healthy walk and get fresh air—all meant eating your vegethese ideas that at her time tables and exercising. But were unheard of. Now we what we are talking about in have research to support Vibrant Life is much broader. every one of them. So we For example, what if at find the modern research
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