Ellen Gould White über: "What health effects does coffee consumption have?"

According to the writings of Ellen G. White, coffee consumption has harmful effects on the entire organism, as it acts as a toxic stimulant that provides no real nourishment to the body. It creates an artificial excitation of the nervous system, inevitably leading to subsequent exhaustion and weakening of vital forces. Long‑term consequences include, among others, headaches, nervous tremors, palpitations, digestive disturbances, and impairment of mental and moral judgment.

The Effects of Coffee on Body and Mind

»The influence of coffee is, to some extent, the same as that of tea, but its effect on the organism is even worse. Its influence is stimulating, and precisely to the extent that it raises the normal level, it will exhaust and cause a slackening below the normal level. ... What the users of these stimulants call strength is received only through the excitation of the gastric nerves, which transmit the irritation to the brain, which in turn is stimulated to give the heart increased action and the whole system a short‑lived energy. All this is false strength by which we deteriorate. They provide not a bit of natural strength.«

1 - Ellen Gould White, Healthful Living (HL 201.1)

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Physical Symptoms and Exhaustion of Nature

»Those who turn to tea and coffee to stimulate themselves for work will feel the severe effects of this path in trembling nerves and lack of self‑control. ... The habit of drinking tea and coffee is a greater evil than is often suspected. Many who have become accustomed to the use of stimulating beverages suffer from headaches and nervous exhaustion and lose much time to illness. ... The nerves become out of balance, the liver works pathologically, the quality and circulation of the blood are impaired, and the skin becomes inactive and pallid. The mind also suffers damage.«

2 - Ellen Gould White, Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (TSDF 145.6)

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Long‑Term Consequences and Health Risks

»The continued use of these nerve‑stimulating agents leads to headaches, insomnia, palpitations, digestive disturbances, tremors, and many other ills; for they drain the vital forces. Tired nerves need rest and quiet instead of stimulation and overwork. ... Diseases of every kind and form have been brought upon people through the use of tea and coffee and the narcotics opium and tobacco.«

3 - Ellen Gould White, Counsels for the Church (CCh 105.1)

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Impairment of Judgment

»Coffee is a harmful indulgence. It temporarily stimulates the mind to unusual activity, but the after‑effect is exhaustion, debilitation, paralysis of mental, moral, and physical forces. The mind becomes weakened, and if the habit is not overcome by determined effort, the brain’s activity permanently diminishes. All these nerve‑stimulating agents drain the vital forces.«

4 - Ellen Gould White, Counsels on Diet and Foods (CD 421.6)

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External Signs of Consumption

»Tea and coffee drinkers bear the signs on their faces. The skin becomes pallid and takes on a lifeless appearance. The radiance of health is not seen on the countenance. Tea and coffee do not nourish the system.«

5 - Ellen Gould White, Counsels on Diet and Foods (CD 421.1)

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Dependence and Withdrawal Symptoms

»Those who use these stealthy poisons claim, like tobacco users, that they cannot live without them because they feel very poorly when they do not have these idols. The reason they suffer when they cease using these stimulants is that they have undermined nature in its work of maintaining the whole system in harmony and health. They will struggle with dizziness, headaches, numbness, nervousness, and irritability.«

6 - Ellen Gould White, Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (TSDF 148.1)

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