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Studies on Seventh-day Adventists have shown a ben-ficial effect of a healthy life-style on morbidity and mortality (1-5). Life-style recommendations include abstaining from unclean food (6) and non-medicinal drugs, alcohol, tobacco and caffeine-containing beverages. Vegetarianism is advocated. Religious mo-tivation ensures a high compliance with the recom-mended habits. Spouse correlations in lifestyle habits, however, have also been shown to be high (7), and Seventh-day Adventist women married to non-mem-bers can be drawn in potentially opposite directions. The aini of the present study is to investigate whether a Seventh-day Adventist woman with a spouse be-longing to the same church differed in lifestyle habits compared to those whose spouse was not a member