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Counsels on Diet and Foods
tea, coffee, flesh meats, butter, spices, rich cakes, mince pies, a large
amount of salt, and all exciting substances used as articles of food.
If we come to persons who have not been enlightened in regard
to health reform, and present our strongest positions at first, there is
danger of their becoming discouraged as they see how much they have
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to give up, so that they will make no effort to reform. We must lead
the people along patiently and gradually, remembering the hole of the
pit whence we were digged.
Part 3—Cooking Schools
A Work of Utmost Importance
804. Wherever medical missionary work is carried on in our large
cities, cooking schools should be held; and wherever a strong ed-
ucational missionary work is in progress, a hygienic restaurant of
some sort should be established, which shall give a practical illustra-
tion of the proper selection and the healthful preparation of foods.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:55, 1902
805. Cooking schools are to be held. The people are to be taught
how to prepare wholesome food. They are to be shown the need
of discarding unhealthful foods. But we should never advocate a
starvation diet. It is possible to have a wholesome, nutritious diet
without the use of tea, coffee, and flesh food. The work of teaching
the people how to prepare a dietary that is at once wholesome and
appetizing, is of the utmost importance.—
Testimonies for the Church
9:112, 1909
806. Some, after adopting a vegetarian diet, return to the use of
flesh meat. This is foolish, indeed, and reveals a lack of knowledge of
how to provide proper food in the place of meat.
Cooking schools, conducted by wise instructors, are to be held in
America and in other lands. Everything that we can do should be done
to show the people the value of the reform diet.—
Testimonies for the
Church 7:126, 1902
807. The diet reform should be progressive. As disease in animals
increases, the use of milk and eggs will become more and more unsafe.
An effort should be made to supply their place with other things that
are healthful and inexpensive. The people everywhere should be taught
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how to cook without milk and eggs so far as possible, and yet have