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Counsels on Diet and Foods
the intellect. The blood-making organs cannot convert such things
into good blood. The grease cooked in the food renders it difficult
of digestion.—[
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 46, 47
]
Counsels on Health, 114, 1890
597. We do not think fried potatoes are healthful, for there is
more or less grease or butter used in preparing them. Good baked
or boiled potatoes, served with cream and a sprinkling of salt, are
the most healthful. The remnants of Irish and sweet potatoes are
prepared with a little cream and salt and rebaked, and not fried; they
are excellent.—
Letter 322, 1905
598. Let all who sit down at your table see upon it well-cooked,
hygienic, palatable food. Be very careful in regard to your eating and
drinking, Brother-----, so that you will not continue to have a diseased
body. Eat regularly, and eat only food that is free from grease.—
Letter
297, 1904
599. A plain diet, free from spices and flesh meats and grease of
all kinds, would prove a blessing to you, and would save your wife a
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great amount of suffering, grief, and despondency.—
Testimonies for
the Church 2:45, 1868
600. 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.—
Testimonies for the
Church 2:352, 1869
[
Lard not used in White home—Appendix 1:4
]
[
Camp Meeting Food to Be Simple and Free from Grease—124
]
[
Greasy mixtures Not used in the White home—Appendix 1:21
]
Part 3—Milk and Cream
Part of a Nourishing, Palatable Diet
601. God has furnished man with abundant means for the gratifica-
tion of an unperverted appetite. He has spread before him the products
of the earth,—a bountiful variety of food that is palatable to the taste,
and nutritious to the system. Of these our benevolent heavenly Father
says we may freely eat. Fruits, grains, and vegetables, prepared in a
simple way, free from spice and grease of all kinds, make, with milk
or cream, the most healthful diet. They impart nourishment to the
body, and give a power of endurance and a vigor of intellect that are