WHY CHRISTIANS GET SICK plus 8 STEPS to an EDENIC LIFESTYLE

1. WHY CHRISTIANS GET SICK plus 8 STEPS to an EDENIC LIFESTYLE Dr. Bill Andress, DrPH, MPH, MA, MCHES was baptized in the Chestnut Hill Church just before his 12th birthday. He attended what is now Greater Philadelphia Junior Academy for his first 10 years of schooling and then finished his junior and senior years of high school at Blue Mountain Academy. A graduate of Loma Linda University and a former missionary to Japan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, he currently is on the faculty of La Sierra University in southern California, where he teaches undergraduate courses in the health sciences. While serving as Director of Health Promotion and Wellness at the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, he began to ask the question, “Why did God give a health message to the Seventh-day Adventist Church?” This seminar is the result of his personal quest to answer that question. It also brings him back to his childhood roots after almost a 40 year absence.

2. “NONE OF THESE DISEASES” Seminars Dr. Bill Andress, DrPH, MPH, MA is a graduate of Loma Linda University and an associate professor of Health and Exercise Science at La Sierra University on the southern edge of Riverside, California. With graduate degrees in both public health and religion, Professor Andress has given integrative mind-body presentations throughout the United States and Asia including Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, and Thailand. This weekend seminar focuses on Biblical principles for maximizing physical health and wellness. • I. Why Christians Get Sick • Scientific data reveals that Christians get sick as often and from the same diseases as non- • Christians. Yet in southern California is a group living 7-10 years longer than other Americans. • Featured in National Geographic magazine, learn the secrets of their longer life expectancy • II. Eight Steps to an Edenic Lifestyle • When God created Adam and Eve, he gave specific instructions on how to treat their bodies. Learn • the eight simple lifestyle habits from the beginning chapters of Genesis, that will enable you to live • an Edenic life in the 21st century. • III. The Legacy of Grandma Whitney • On July 24, 1987, 91-year-old Hulda Crooks, became the oldest woman and oldest American to • climb to the summit of Mt. Fuji in Japan. Six weeks later she broke her own record as the oldest • person to climb, Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the continental United States. What makes • these feats even more remarkable is that as a teenager and young adult she was often sickly and • significantly overweight. Learn the secrets of this remarkable woman that will enable you to • maintain strength and vigor, even in the sunset years of life.