Ellen White and other believers in the Advent message endeavored to spread the knowledge of the third angel's message in Australia they found that the subject of temperance was an opening wedge. The deep interest in temperance provided a receptive audience for new light in the broad field of healthful living: proper nutrition, exercise and rest, care of the sick, the relation of the mind to the body. WV 336.2
True temperance involves the total being: body, mind, and soul. WV 336.3