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miles east of Los Angeles and is the home of the Seventh-Day
Adventists. Some of the most conservative Adventists do not
believe in going to the theater or movies or indulging in any
other form of popular culture. The Loma Linda University first
embarked on a study of the dietary habits of 25,000 Adventists
in California about 50 years ago. One key discovery of the
Adventists health study was that approximately half of the Adventists were vegetarians or rarely ate meat. The Adventists who
consumed nuts at least 5 times a week had about half the risk
of heart disease of those v