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Counsels on Diet and Foods
Sugar in Ellen G. White’s Diet
531. Everything is plain yet wholesome because it is not merely
thrown together in a haphazard manner. We have no sugar on our
table. Our sauce which is our dependence is apples, baked or stewed,
sweetened as is required before being put upon the table.—
Letter 5,
1870
532. We have always used a little milk and some sugar. This we
have never denounced, either in our writings or in our preaching. We
believe cattle will become so much diseased that these things will yet
be discarded, but the time has not yet come for sugar and milk to be
wholly abolished from our tables.—
Letter 1, 1873
Part 2—Milk and Sugar
533. Now in regard to milk and sugar: I know of persons who
have become frightened at the health reform, and said they would
have nothing to do with it, because it has spoken against a free use of
these things. Changes should be made with great care; and we should
move cautiously and wisely. We want to take that course which will
recommend itself to the intelligent men and women of the land. Large
quantities of milk and sugar eaten together are injurious. They impart
impurities to the system. Animals from which milk is obtained are
not always healthy. They may be diseased. A cow may be apparently
well in the morning and die before night. Then she was diseased in
the morning, and her milk was diseased, but you did not know it. The
animal creation is diseased. Flesh meats are diseased. Could we know
that animals were in perfect health, I would recommend that people eat
flesh meats sooner than large quantities of milk and sugar. It would not
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do the injury that milk and sugar do. Sugar clogs the system. It hinders
the working of the living machine.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:368,
369, 1870
534. I frequently sit down to the tables of the brethren and sisters,
and see that they use a great amount of milk and sugar. These clog the
system, irritate the digestive organs, and affect the brain.—
Testimonies
for the Church 2:370, 1870
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535. Some use milk and a large amount of sugar on mush, think-
ing that they are carrying out health reform. But the sugar and milk