Elvin E. Adams

Elvin E. Adams, M.D., M.P.H., is a physician at the Huguley Memorial Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas.

Articles by Elvin E. Adams

Health Evangelism

November 2012

Health is a great treasure. It is the richest possession mortals can have. Wealth, honor, or learning is dearly pur­chased if it be at the loss of the vigor of health. None of these attainments can secure happiness, if health is wanting.…

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Salt, Diet, and Exercise

March 1977

 

Adams: I understand, Dr. Mirkin, that in addition to your very extensive medical practice, teaching, and writing, you are keenly interested in fitness and participate in sports yourself. Is there a special reason for this?

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In the Local Church

February 1977

The local church should be the focal point for health-evangelism activities in any community. Regardless of the insti tutional setting in which one's interest in health and spiritual matters is awak ened, it is finally the local congregation…

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"Slow-motion suicide"?

March 1978

 

What is HEW Secretary Joseph Califano talking about when he refers to smoking as "slow-motion suicide"? During the past year, more than 650 billion cigarettes were sold in the United States. This aver ages out to more than 4,000…

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Reflexology: healing, harmless, or hazardous?

August 1988

The patient sits comfortably in a reclining position, feet, ankles, and lower legs bare and ex tended. A reflexologist faces the patient's feet and sometimes firmly, sometimes gently, presses and massages the soles, first one foot and then…

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Book Resources on AIDS

May 1989

The following books on AIDS have been reviewed for Ministry by Elvin Adams, M.D., M.P.H., associate director of the Health and Temperance Department, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

When AIDS…

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The pastor's fight for good health

April 1990

The recent emphasis in our church on righteousness by faith has correctly pointed to Jesus as the author and finisher of our faith. But current theology favors more of an intellectual/emotional contract with God,…

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