Early in 1866, responding to the instruction given to White on Christmas Day in 1865[REF] that Seventh-day Adventists should establish a health institute for the care of the sick and the imparting of health instruction, plans were laid for the Western Health Reform Institute, which opened in September, 1866 [REF].
White's idea of health reform included vegetarianism in a day and age where "meat and two vegetables" was the standard meal for a typical North American.