E) SUGAR

 

 

“Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the working of the living machine.”  CD:327.3; 330; 2T:368.

 

‘Sugar is not good for the stomach. It causes fermentation, and this clouds the brain and brings peevishness into the disposition.”  CD:327.1.

 

 

F) PERVERTED APPETITE

 

 

“Those who indulge a perverted appetite, do it to the injury of health and intellect.  They cannot appreciate the value of spiritual things.  Their sensibilities are blunted, and sin does not appear very sinful, and truth is not regarded of greater value than earthly treasure.”  4aSG:129.

 

“Many feel that if they do not eat meat and the grosser articles of food, they may eat of simple food until they cannot well eat more.  This is a mistake.  Many professed health reformers are nothing less than gluttons.  They lay upon the digestive organs so great a burden that the vitality of the system is exhausted in the effort to dispose of it.  It also has a depressing influence upon the intellect; for the brain nerve power is called upon to assist the stomach in its work.  Overeating, even of the simplest food, benumbs the sensitive nerves of the brain, and weakens its vitality.  Overeatinghas a worse effect upon the system than overworking; the energies of the soul are more effectually prostrated by intemperate eating than by intemperate working.”  CD:102; 2T:412.

 

“It is sin to be intemperate in the quantity of food eaten, even if the quality is unobjectionable.  Many feel that if they do not eat meat and the grosser articles of food, they may eat of simple food until they cannot well eat more.  This is a mistake.  Many professed health reformers are nothing less than gluttons.  They lay upon the digestive organs so great a burden that the vitality of the system is exhausted in the effort to dispose of it.  It also has a depressing influence upon the intellect, for the brain nerve power is called upon to assist the stomach in its work.  Overeating, even of the simplest food, benumbs the sensitive nerves of the brain and weakens its vitality.  Overeating has a worse effect upon the system than overworking; the energies of the soul are more effectually prostrated by intemperate eating than by intemperate working.”  CH:160.1.

 

“What if Daniel and his companions had made a compromise with those heathen officers, and had yielded to the pressure of the occasion, by eating and drinking as was customary with the Babylonians?  That single instance of departure from principle would have weakened their sense of right and their abhorrence of wrong [Did you notice that an improper diet can lead to not understanding correctly right from wrong?].  Indulgence of appetite would have invoked the sacrifice of physical vigor, clearness of intellect, and spiritual power.  One wrong step would probably have led to others, until, their connection with Heaven being severed, they would have been swept away by temptation.”  CC:248; CD:155; CH:66; FE:80-81; ML:75; RC:86; SL:23; Te:155; TSDF:170; RH, January 25, 1881.

 

 

G) CHEESE

 

 

“Butter, cheese, flesh meats of dead animals, rich cake and poor cookery create disease and will certainly corrupt the blood, bring disease and suffering, and pervert the discernment.  I beseech our people, to consider that health reform is essential and that which we place in our stomachs should be the simple nourishment of good, plainly prepared bread and fruits and grains.”  7MR:348.

 

“Flesh-meats, butter, cheese, rich pastry, spiced foods, and condiments are freely partaken of by both old and young.  These things do their work in deranging the stomach, exciting the nerves, and enfeebling the intellect. The [47] blood-making organs cannot convert such things into good blood.  The grease cooked in the food renders it difficult of digestion. The effect of cheese is deleterious.”  CTBH:46-47 & 236.

 

“Years ago I had a testimony of reproof for the managers in our camp meetings bringing upon the ground and selling to our people cheese and other hurtful things,” {Letter, 25a, 1889} CD:329.1.

 

“Cheese should never be introduced into the stomach.”  CD 368.4; 2T:68 (1868); HL:94.2.

 

“Cheese is still more objectionable; it is wholly unfit for food.”  CD: 368.5.

 

 

H) EGGS

 

 

“Their children should not be allowed to make eggs their diet, for this kind of food -- eggs and animal flesh -- feeds and inflames the animal passions.”  3SM:286.2.

 

 

I) WATER

 

 

“Many make a mistake in drinking cold water with their meals.  Taken with meals water diminishes the flow of the salivary glands; and the colder the water, the greater the injury to the stomach.  Ice water or iced lemonade, drank with meals, will arrest digestion until the system has imparted sufficient warmth to the stomach to enable it to take up its work again.  Hot drinks are debilitating; and besides, those who indulge in their use become slaves to the habit.  Food should not be washed down; no drink is needed with meals.  Eat slowly, and allow the saliva to mingle with the food.  The more liquid there is taken into the stomach with the meals, the more difficult it is for the food to digest; for the liquid must first be absorbed.  Do not eat largely of salt, give up bottled pickles, keep fiery, spiced food out of your stomach, eat fruit with your meals, and the irritation that calls for so much drink will cease to exist.  But if anything is needed to quench thirst, pure water drank some little time before or after the meal is all that nature requires.  Never take tea, coffee, beer, wine, or any spirituous liquors.  Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.”  RH, July 29, 1884 paragraph 7.

 

 

J) EATING MEAT

 

 

“You know not the danger of eating meat merely because your appetite craves it.  By partaking of this diet, man places in his mouth that which stimulates unholy passions.  Unhallowed emotions fill the mind, and the spiritual eyesight is beclouded; for the tendency of self-gratification is to corrupt the taste and the judgment.  By furnishing your table with this kind of food, you go counter to the Will of God.  A condition of things is brought about which will lead to a disregard of the precepts of God’s Law.  3SM:289.2; 4MR:383.

 

“[121] When the Lord brought his people from Egyptian bondage, He led them through the wilderness to prove them, and try them.  He promised to be their God, [122] and to take them to Himself as His peculiar treasure.  He did not prohibit their eating meat, but withheld it from them in a great measure.  He gave them food which He designed that they should have, which was healthy, and of which they could eat freely.  He rained their bread from Heaven, and gave them purest water out of the flinty rock.  He made a covenant with them, that if they would obey Him in all things, He would put no disease upon them.  But the Israelites were not satisfied with the food which God gave them.”  4aSG:121-122.

 

“Many die of disease caused wholly by meat-eating, yet the world does not seem to be the wiser.  Animals are frequently killed that have been driven quite a distance for the slaughter.  Their blood has become heated.  They are full of flesh, and have been deprived of healthy exercise, and when they have to travel far, they become surfeited, and exhausted, and in that condition are killed for market.  Their blood is highly inflamed, and those who eat of their meat, eat poison.  Some are not immediately affected, while others are attacked with severe pain, and die from fever, cholera, or some unknown disease.  Very many animals are sold for the city market known to be diseased by those who have sold them, and those who buy them are not always ignorant of the matter.  Especially in larger cities this is practiced to a great extent, and meat-eaters know not that they are eating diseased animals.”  4aSG:147; CD:385-386; 2SM:418-419; RH, June 20, 1899 paragraph 7.

 

“The messages given on this great and needful subject seemed to be distasteful to some of our ministers.  They would put forth some faint efforts to reform, but because they had no mind to practice it, they lapsed into an indifference upon the subject.  Then, in order to vindicate their own course of action, they began to pick flaws in the men who advocated this reform.  If they could find any excuse for remaining away, they would not attend the meetings where health reform was presented.  These men became its bitterest enemies.  They were displeased with those who gave it their attention and presented it to the people.  Thus those who should have been the first to advocate the principles of health reform in every line of their work, by precept and example, showed that they were not in harmony with it.”  4MR:372.1.

 

“What then?  They visited with their brethren, and at the table revealed their principles by eating meat and drinking tea and coffee.  Then they would make some remark in regard to their not being so ‘straight-laced’ as some of their brethren and sisters.  These men were not making that progress in Divine things that would make them safe teachers.  They were opposed to health reform because instruction on temperance in all things was opposed to [373] their practice of self-indulgence.  This was the great stumbling block in the way of our bringing the people to investigate and practice and teach the truth of health reform.”  4MR:372.2; Ms 103, 1898, pages 1 & 2. (“A Word to Our Ministers in Regard to Health Reform,” typed August 23, 1898).

 

“Two years ago I came to the conclusion that there was danger in using the flesh of dead animals, and since then I have not used meat at all.  It is never placed on my table. I use fish when I can get it.  We can get beautiful fish from the saltwater lake near here.  I use neither tea nor coffee.  As I labor against these things, I cannot but practice that which I know to be best for health,” 11LtMs, Lt:128, 1896, paragraph 16.

 

“Every Church should be staunch and true to the light God has given.  Some justify their use of tea and of meat by saying that they have been in the habit of eating meat and drinking tea.  But this is a great evil.  He who thus tries to justify these practices is not walking in the light.  Some try to live the truth but their habits are not brought into conformity with the Will of God.  Their appetites and passions bear away the victory, and the safeguards are broken down.  How then will the Church be prepared to help those newly come to the faith.  They are far behind in the principles of health reform, and lead others in the same line.”  8MR:383.2 (Released June 21, 1978); Ms 49, 1898, p. 14. (“The Lack of Spirituality in Our Churches,” April 9, 1898.); 21MR:34-35.

 

“Tobacco and liquors of all kinds becloud man’s reason and place him below the brute creation.  These things must be strictly avoided.  And only food of the most wholesome character should be used; for we are built up from the food we eat.  That which we place in the stomach becomes flesh and blood, and we can make our blood impure by eating meatand other injurious articles.”  14MR:295.3.

 

“Years ago the light was given me that the position should not be taken to discard all meat, because in some cases it was better than the desserts and dishes composed of sweets.  These are sure to create disturbances.  It is the variety and mixture of meat, vegetables, fruit, wines, tea, coffee, sweet cakes, and rich pies that ruin the stomach and place human beings in the position where they become invalids, with all the disagreeable effects of sickness upon the disposition.  The character becomes perverted, a depraved appetite is established, and a diseased religious experience is the result.”  18MR:352 (Written July 26, 1898, from Sydney, Australia, to Dr. J. H. Kellogg.).

 

“If meat eating was ever healthful, it is not safe now.  Cancers, tumors, and pulmonary diseases are largely caused by meat eating.”  CCh:235.6; 

CG:382.1.

 

“The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat eating.”  CCh:229.3; 2T:64.

 

“Students would accomplish much more in their studies if they never tasted meat.  When the animal part of the human agent is strengthened by meat eating, the intellectual powers diminish proportionately.”  

CCh:230.5.

 

“Very many animals are sold for the city market known to be diseased by those who have sold them, and those who buy them are not always ignorant of the matter.  Especially in larger cities this is practiced to a great extent, and meat eaters know not that they are eating diseased animals.”  CD:385-386.

 

“There are those who ought to be awake to the danger of meat eating, who are still eating the flesh of animals, thus endangering the physical, mental, and spiritual health.  Many who are now only half converted on the question of meat eating will go from God’s people, to walk no more with them.”  CCh:230.7; CH:575; CD:382.1.

 

“Some animals that are brought to the slaughter seem to realize by instinct what is to take place, and they become furious, and literally mad.  They are killed while in that state, and their flesh is prepared for market.  Their meat is poison, and has produced, in those who have eaten it, cramps, convulsions, apoplexy, and sudden death.  Yet the cause of all this suffering is not attributed to the meat.”  CD:386.2; 2SM:419; 4aSG:147; RH, June 20, 1899 paragraph 8.

 

“Some animals are inhumanly treated while being brought to the slaughter.  They are literally tortured, and after they have endured many hours of extreme suffering, are butchered.  Swine have been prepared for market even while the plague was upon them, and their poisonous flesh has spread contagious diseases, and great mortality has followed.”  CD:386.3.

 

“The mortality caused by meat eating is not discerned; if it were, we would hear no more arguments and excuses in favor of the indulgence of the appetite for dead flesh.”  CD:391.3.

 

“A positive injury is done to the system by continuous meat eating.  There is no excuse for it but a depraved, perverted appetite.  You may ask, Would you do away entirely with meat eating?  I answer, It will eventually come to this, but we are not prepared for this step just now.  Meat eating will eventually be done away.  The flesh of animals will no longer compose a part of our diet; and we shall look upon a butcher’s shop with disgust.”  CD:407.1.

 

“Disease in cattle is making meat eating a dangerous matter.  The Lord’s curse is upon the earth, upon man, upon beasts, upon the fish in the sea; and as transgression becomes almost universal, the curse will be permitted to become as broad and as deep as the transgression.  Disease is contracted by the use of meat.  The diseased flesh of these dead carcasses is sold in the market places, and disease among men is the sure result.”  CD:411.2.

 

“Again I will refer to the diet question.  We cannot now do as we have ventured to do in the past in regard to meat eating.  It has always been a curse to the human family, but now it is made particularly so in the curse which God has pronounced upon the herds of the field, because of man’s transgression and sin.  The disease upon animals is becoming more and more common, and our only safety now is in leaving meat entirely alone.  The most aggravated diseases are now prevalent, and the very last thing that physicians who are enlightened should do, is to advise patients to eat meat.  It is in eating meat so largely in this country that men and women are becoming demoralized, their blood corrupted, and disease planted in the system.  Because of meat eating, many die, and they do not understand the cause. If the truth were known, it would bear testimony it was the flesh of animals that have passed through death.  The thought of feeding on dead flesh is repulsive, but there is something besides this.  In eating meat we partake of diseased dead flesh, and this sows its seed of corruption in the human organism.”  CD:412.1.

 

“I seldom allowed myself to eat anything between my regular meals, and have made it a practice to often retire without supper.  But I have suffered greatly for want of food from breakfast to dinner, and have frequently fainted.  Eating meat removed for the time these faint feelings.  I therefore decided that meat was indispensable in my case.” CD:482.2.

 

“But since the Lord presented before me, in June, 1863, the subject of meat eating in relation to health, I have left the use of meat. For a while it was rather difficult to bring my appetite to bread, for which, formerly, I had but little relish.  But by persevering, I have been able to do this.  I have lived for nearly one year without meat.”  CD:482.3; 4aSG:153.

 

“There are many minds in many places to whom the Lord will surely give knowledge of how to prepare foods that are healthful and palatable, if He sees that they will use this knowledge righteously.  Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists.  Foods that are healthful and life-sustaining are to be prepared, so that men and women will not need to eat meat.”  CH:471.2.

 

“The effects of a flesh diet may not be immediately realized, but this is no evidence that it is not harmful.  Few can be made to believe that it is the meat they have eaten which has poisoned their blood and caused their suffering.  Many die of diseases wholly due to meat eating, while the real cause is not suspected by themselves or by others.”  CG:382.4; MH:315; CCh:229.7.

 

 Note:  Written from St. Helena, Calif., July 15, 1901:  “You ask in regard to meat-eating.  I will say that it is quite true that nearly all animal flesh is diseased.  Many people are eating meat filled with consumption and cancerous germs.  At the present day animals are suffering from all kinds of deadly diseases. [PC:1.1]

 

“The Lord has been teaching His people that it is for their spiritual and physical good to abstain from flesh-eating.  There is no need to eat the flesh of dead animals. [PC:1.2]

 

“After the curse was pronounced upon the human family, God permitted man to eat flesh-meat.  This He did that life might be shortened.  The punishment of death has been pronounced upon the race, and the permission to eat flesh-meatwas one of the means used by God to inflict this punishment.  PC:1.1-3.

 

“Who of us are eating meat today?  Who have thought that they must live upon the flesh of dead animals?  We should not do it.  We are composed of what we eat.  God has given you those things that will make you healthy.  Do not put corpses upon your tables; do not, I beg of you, eat the flesh of dead animals; for there is enough that you can live upon without that.”  RH, January 7, 1902, par. 6.

 

“Were all the sins, which have brought the wrath of God upon cities and nations, fully understood, their woes and calamities would be found to be the results of uncontrolled appetites and passions.”  RH, March 4, 1875.

 

“Previous to this time God had given man no permission to eat animal food.  Every living substance upon the face of the earth upon which man could subsist had been destroyed, therefore God gave Noah permission to eat of the clean beasts which he had taken with him into the ark.  God said to Noah.  [Verse quoted].  As God had formerly given them the herb of the ground and fruit of the field, now, in the peculiar circumstances in which they are placed He permits them to eat animal food.  Yet I saw that the flesh of animals was not the most healthy article of food for man.  The whole surface of the earth was changed at the flood.  A third dreadful curse now rested upon it in consequence of man’s transgression.”  ST, March 6, 1879; 3SG:76; 1SP:79.

 

“It was because the Lord desired to make them His representatives that He provided them with a special bill of fare.  They were placed under careful restrictions in regard to their diet.  The use of flesh food was almost entirely prohibited.  The people were to be holy, and the Lord knew that the use of flesh meat would be a hindrance to their advancement in spiritual life.  By a miracle of mercy He fed them with the bread of Heaven.  The food provided for them was of a nature to promote physical, mental, and moral strength, and. . . the wisdom of God’s choice for them was vindicated in a manner that they could not gainsay.”  TDG:77.2.

 

“Have you carefully and prayerfully sought to understand the Will of God in these matters?  The excuse has been that the outsiders would have a meat diet.  I know that with care and skill, dishes could be prepared to take the place of meat, in a large degree; but if one whose main dependence is meat performs the cooking, she can encourage meat-eating, and the depraved appetite will frame every kind of excuse for this kind of diet.

 

“Meat seldom appears on my table.  For weeks at a time I would not taste it, and after my appetite had been trained, I grew stronger and could do better work.  When I came to -- I determined not to taste meat, but I could get scarcely anything else to eat; I therefore ate a little meat.  It caused an unnatural action of the heart; I knew it was not the right kind of food. . . The use of meat while at -- awakened the old appetite, and after I returned home, it clamored for indulgence.  Then I resolved to change entirely, and not to eat meat under any circumstances, and thus encourage this appetite.  Not a morsel of meat or butter has been on my table since I returned.”  TSDF:66.

 

“When a limb is broken, physicians, recommend their patients not to eat meat, as there would be danger of inflammation’s setting in.”  U. T., Nov. 5, 1896; HL:101.2.

 

“The mortality caused by eating meat is not discerned. . . Animals are diseased, and by partaking of their flesh we plant the seeds of disease in our own tissues and blood.”  U. T., Nov. 5, 1896; HL:67.2.

 

 

K) CEASE TO EAT MEAT

 

 

“The Lord has spoken plainly in regard to the deleterious effects of a meat diet and its influence upon children.  Whenever I have seen children feeding upon flesh meats, since the light was given me from Heaven, I have felt that if the parents only knew what they were doing, they would fast and pray for moral courage and God-given wisdom and grace to do right.  All who feel their need of His Spirit to educate and discipline self, and to properly train their children, will deny self, and take up the cross and follow Jesus.”  20MR:105.2.

 

“Meat should not be placed before our children.  Its influence is to excite and strengthen the lower passions, and has a tendency to deaden the moral powers.  Grains and fruits prepared free from grease, and in as natural a condition as possible, should be the food for the tables of all who claim to be preparing for translation to Heaven.”  CD:63.3; CH:42.2; 621.2; 2T:352.

 

“It has been clearly presented to me that God’s people are to take a firm stand against meat eating.  Would God for thirty years give His people the message that if they desire to have pure blood and clear minds, they must give up the use of flesh meat, if He did not want them to heed this message?  By the use of flesh meats the animal nature is strengthened and the spiritual nature weakened.”  CD383; CCh:230.8.

 

“Let not any of our ministers set an evil example in the eating of flesh meat.  Let them and their families live up to the light of health reform.  Let not our ministers animalize their own nature and the nature of their children.”  CD:399.3.

 

“While we do not make the use of flesh meat a test, while we do not want to force any one to give up its use, yet it is our duty to request that no minister of the conference shall make light of or oppose the message of reform on this point.  If, in the face of the light God has given concerning the effect of meat eating on the system, you will still continue to eat meat, you must bear the consequences.  But do not take a position before the people that will permit them to think that it is not necessary to call for a reform in regard to meat eating; because the Lord is calling for a reform.  The Lord has given us the work of proclaiming the message of health reform, and if you cannot step forward in the ranks of those who are giving this message you are not to make this prominent.  In counterworking the efforts of your fellow laborers, who are teaching health reform, you are out of order, working on the wrong side.”  CD:401.2; Letter 48, 1902; Ev:664-665.

 

“Let our ministers and canvassers step under the banners of strict temperance.  Never be ashamed to say, ‘No, thank you; I do not eat meat.  I have conscientious scruples against eating the flesh of dead animals.’ ”  CD:402.2.

 

“Again I will refer to the diet question.  We cannot now do as we have ventured to do in the past in regard to meat eating.  It has always been a curse to the human family, but now it is made particularly so in the curse which God has pronounced upon the herds of the field, because of man’s transgression and sin.  The disease upon animals is becoming more and more common, and our only safety now is in leaving meat entirely alone.  The most aggravated diseases are now prevalent, and the very last thing that physicians who are enlightened should do, is to advise patients to eat meat.  It is in eating meat so largely in this country that men and women are becoming demoralized, their blood corrupted, and disease planted in the system.  Because of meat eating, many die, and they do not understand the cause.  If the truth were known, it would bear testimony it was the flesh of animals that have passed through death.  The thought of feeding on dead flesh is repulsive, but there is something besides this.  In eating meat we partake of diseased dead flesh, and this sows its seed of corruption in the human organism. [CD:412.1]

 

“I write to you, my brother, that the giving of prescriptions for the eating of the flesh of animals shall no more be practiced in our sanitarium.  There is no excuse for this.  There is no safety in the afterinfluence and results upon the human mind.  Let us be health reformers in every sense of the term.  Let us make known in our institutions that there is no longer a meat table, even for the boarders; and then the education given upon the discarding of a meat diet will be not only saying but doing.  If patronage is less, so let it be.  The principles will be of far greater value when they are understood, when it is known that the life of no living thing shall be taken to sustain the life of the Christian.” CD:412.1-2.

 

“Among those who are waiting for the Coming of the Lord, meat eating will eventually be done away; flesh will ceaseto form a part of their diet.”  CG:383.2; CCh:231.7.

 

“In his association with those whom he meets, the canvasser can do much to show the value of healthful living.  Instead of staying at a hotel, he should, if possible, obtain lodging with a private family.  As he sits at the table with the family, let him practice the instruction given in the health works he is selling, holding up the banner of strict temperance.  As opportunity is offered, let him speak of the value of a healthful diet.  He should never be ashamed to say, ‘No, thank you; I do not eat meat.’ ”  CH:463.1.

 

“God desires us, by strict temperance, to keep the mind clear and keen that we may be able to distinguish between the sacred and the common.  We should strive to understand the wonderful science of the matchless compassion and benevolence of God.  Those who eat too largely and those who eat unhealthful food bring trouble upon themselves, unfitting themselves for the service of God.  It is dangerous to eat meat, for animals are suffering from many deadly diseases.  Those who persist in eating the flesh of animals sacrifice spirituality to perverted appetite.  Their bodies become full of disease.”  MS:66, 1901; 2MCP:390.1.

 

“I let the meat diet go, as the Lord said; it was not good for me, and it was establishing a weakness in my constitution, so that I could not carry His work.  Now I want to say to every one of you that will come right to the fruits and grains and let meat alone, you will not be the disposition of that animal of which you now partake.  God wants us to bring Heaven into our homes, for we are preparing for the Heaven above.”  Ms139:1906.64.

 

“After the fall, the eating of flesh was suffered, in order to shorten the period of the existence of the long-lived race.  It was allowed because of the hardness of the hearts of men.”  TSDF:68; PH031:6; PC:362; SpM:46.

 

“God permitted the flesh of dead animals to be eaten by the ancients, although He knew by so doing the lives of men would be shortened.  But when He brought His chosen people from the land of Egypt, He did not give them flesh to eat, but fed them with the bread of Heaven.  When they murmured against their Heaven-appointed food and asked for flesh, God sent them quails; but the consequence of their rebellion were speedily felt.  They ate to excess of the meat thus provided, and while the flesh was yet between their teeth many of them died.  Our people would do well to study this experience of the children of Israel, and learn the lesson that it teaches.”  SpM:419.

 

 

L) SPICES

 

 

“. . . man had used stimulants until he had deadened the tender coats of the stomach. {5T 357.3}

 

“Many, as they read this, will laugh at the warning of danger.  They will say:  ‘Surely the little wine or cider that I use cannot hurt me.’  Satan has marked such as his prey; he leads them on step by step, and they perceive it not until the chains of habit and appetite are too strong to be broken.”  5T:357.3-4.

 

“I have not had, to my knowledge, a particle of pepper in the house for ten years.”  15MR246.

 

“Condiments are injurious in their nature.  Mustard, pepper, spices, pickles, and other things of a like character, irritate the stomach and make the blood feverish and impure.  The inflamed condition of the drunkard’s stomach is often pictured as illustrating the effect of alcoholic liquors.  A similarly inflamed condition is produced by the use of irritating condiments.  Soon ordinary food does not satisfy the appetite.  The system feels a want, a craving, for something more stimulating.”  CD:339.3.

 

“You should never allow your children to find fault with their food, to murmur because spice, pepper, pickles, and condiments are not placed before them.  You should not allow them to indulge largely in meat eating, unless you want them to become nervous, irritable, and discontented.”  PH096:19.

 

“I had used pepper and mustard in my diet; but these should not be put into the human stomach.  The delicate membrane becomes inflamed, the healthy tone of the stomach is lowered, and the appetite is perverted, the taste loses its discernment, and the delicious flavors of grains, vegetables, and fruits become insipid and unpalatable.”  ST, February 17, 1888 par. 5.

 

 

M) FRUIT WITH VEGETABLES.

 

 

“You eat too great a variety at one meal.  Fruit and vegetables taken at one meal produce acidity of the stomach, then impurity of the blood results, and the mind is not clear because the digestion is imperfect.”   CD:112.6; Letters and Manuscripts, Volume 23, page 1543.

 

“It is not well to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal.  If the digestion is feeble, the use of both will often cause distress and inability to put forth mental effort.  It is better to have the fruit at one meal and the vegetables at another.”  MH:229.7.