Chapter 22—Proteins
Part 1—Nuts and Nut Foods
Part of an Adequate Diet
617. Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables constitute the diet chosen
for us by our Creator. These foods, prepared in as simple and natural a
manner as possible, are the most healthful and nourishing. They impart
a strength, a power of endurance, and a vigor of intellect, that are not
afforded by a more complex and stimulating diet.—
The Ministry of
Healing, 296, 1905
618. In grains, fruit, vegetables, and nuts are to be found all the
food elements that we need. If we will come to the Lord in simplicity
of mind, He will teach us how to prepare wholesome food free from
the taint of flesh meat.—
Manuscript 27, 1906
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In the Adequate Diet—483
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In the Diet Provided by God—404
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Sanitarium Patients to Be Taught to Use—767
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Nut Foods to Be Carefully Prepared and Inexpensive
619. God has given us an ample variety of healthful foods, and
each person should choose from it the things that experience and sound
judgment prove to be best suited to his own necessities.
Nature’s abundant supply of fruits, nuts, and grains is ample, and
year by year the products of all lands are more generally distributed to
all, by the increased facilities for transportation....
Nuts and nut foods are coming largely into use to take the place
of flesh meats. With nuts may be combined grains, fruits, and some
roots, to make foods that are healthful and nourishing. Care should
be taken, however, not to use too large a proportion of nuts. Those
who realize ill—
The Ministry of Healing, 297, 298, 1905
effects from
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the use of nut foods may find the difficulty removed by attending to
this precaution. [
Grains, Nuts, Vegetables, and Fruit as Substitutes for
Flesh Food—492
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