Adventist
Health Studies

Adventist Health Studies are long-term health studies exploring the links between lifestyle, diet, and disease among members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a Christian denomination that encourages a plant-based diet and calls for abstinence from alcohol and tobacco. Adventists are ideal for epidemiological studies in that their similarity in lifestyle behaviours (such as not smoking) reduces the likelihood of confounding that is often present in other study groups. To date, there have been five Adventist Health Studies based out of Loma Linda University.