In studying the Seventh Day Adventists Rene Noorbergen wrote about Ellen White, “Convinced through her prophecies that the world was rapidly approaching its end, she led and counseled a large segment of the religious world of her time into a deeper spiritual and social awareness. But she did more than that. Her spiritual, medical and nutritional insight, gained through more than two thousand visions and prophetic dreams, provided her with a knowledge that was in many cases more than a hundred years ahead of her time. Medical researchers and nutritional experts still marvel at the foresightedness and accurate diagnoses of this women, who, with only a third-grade education, managed to predict and guide health-related research to a point even beyond that which we have already reached today.”