Chapter 19—Desserts
Part 1—Sugar
525. Sugar is not good for the stomach. It causes fermentation,
and this clouds the brain and brings peevishness into the disposition.—
Manuscript 93, 1901
526. Far too much sugar is ordinarily used in food. Cakes, sweet
puddings, pastries, jellies, jams, are active causes of indigestion. Espe-
cially harmful are the custards and puddings in which milk, eggs, and
sugar are the chief ingredients. The free use of milk and sugar taken
together should be avoided.—
The Ministry of Healing, 302, 1905
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See Milk and Sugar—533, 536
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Use Only a Little in Fruit Canning—476
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A Little Sugar Permissible—550
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527. Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the working of the living
machine.
There was one case in Montcalm County, Michigan, to which I
will refer. The individual was a noble man. He stood six feet, and
was of fine appearance. I was called to visit him in his sickness. I had
previously conversed with him in regard to his manner of living. “I do
not like the looks of your eyes,” said I. He was eating large quantities
of sugar. I asked him why he did this. He said that he had left off meat,
and did not know what would supply its place as well as sugar. His
food did not satisfy him, simply because his wife did not know how to
cook.
Some of you send your daughters, who have nearly grown to
womanhood, to school to learn the sciences before they know how
to cook, when this should be made of the first importance. Here was
a woman who did not know how to cook; she had not learned how
to prepare healthful food. The wife and mother was deficient in this
important branch of education; and as the result, poorly cooked food
not being sufficient to sustain the demands of the system, sugar was
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eaten immoderately, which brought on a diseased condition of the
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