Ellen White on Health Benefits of Covering Arms and Limbs

Ellen White provides extensive instruction on the necessity of keeping the arms and limbs thoroughly covered to maintain health and prevent disease.

The Connection Between Clothing and Health 🧥

Protecting the extremities is a vital law of our being that ensures proper blood circulationCH 37.1. When the arms and limbs are left insufficiently protected, the blood is chilled back from its natural course and thrown upon the internal organs, leading to congestion and inflammation2SM 471.1+1. This imbalance in circulation is a primary cause of coughs, diseased lungs, and even premature death3MR 319.2+1.

• Protecting the Lungs: If the hands and arms are chilled, the lungs are injuriously affected; therefore, the wrists should be covered with warm wristlets3MR 319.2.

• Equalizing Circulation: For perfect health, the feet and limbs must be as warmly clad as the rest of the body to induce the blood to the extremitiesCTBH 89.1+1.

• Child Safety: Mothers should ensure their daughters' limbs are as well-protected as their sons', as thin stockings and light shoes for girls often lead to habitual cold feet and diseased organs2SM 471.1+2.

The Benefits of Proper Coverage ✨

By following the principles of dress reform, which includes clothing the limbs with warm, lined pants or similar garments, women can enjoy the invigorating air of heaven without fear of taking coldCTBH 89.1+1. God designed this style of dress to be a blessing and a safeguard for His peopleT30 166.2+1. As the arms of Joseph were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, we are strengthened when we cooperate with the laws of health Genesis 49:24.

...nary diseases should take especial care not to allow the extremities of the body to be chilled. The wrist should be covered with warm wristlets, for if the hands and arms are chilled, the lungs are injuriously affected— 3MR 319.2 (1990)

...m grease and spices? Have you not been dictated by fashion in clothing your children? Leaving their arms and limbs insufficiently protected has been the cause of a vast amount of disease and premature deaths. There is no reason why the feet and limbs of your girls, should not be in eve...— 2SM 471.1 (1958)

In order to follow the fashions, mothers dress their children with limbs nearly naked; and the blood is chilled back from its natural course and thrown upon the internal organs, breaking up the circulation and producing disease. The arms an...— T19 42.1 (1870)

The limbs, which should have even more covering than any other portion of the body, because farthest from the center of circulation, are often not suitably protected; while over the vital organs, where there is naturally more warmt...— CTBH 89.1 (1890)

...should be propelled to the extremities quickly and easily in order to have health. We plead for the warm, lined pants in winter, that the blood may be induced to the extremities, that they may not by scanty clothing be robbed of their due proportion of blood. The current of hu...— HR May 1, 1872, par. 11 (1866)

...arts of the body. The limbs, being remote from the vital organs, should have special attention. The extremities should be guarded from cold and chilliness by a bountiful amount of clothing. It is impossible for women or children to have health when their limbs and feet are habitually col...— HR January 1, 1877, par. 7 (1866)