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Counsels on Diet and Foods
foods will be fruits and grains and nuts, but various roots will also be
used.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:125, 126, 1902
115. Again and again I have been shown that God is bringing His
people back to His original design, that is, not to subsist upon the flesh
of dead animals. He would have us teach people a better way....
If meat is discarded, if the taste is not educated in that direction,
if a liking for fruits and grains is encouraged, it will soon be as God
in the beginning designed it should be. No meat will be used by His
people.—
Letter 3, 1884
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Israel Brought Back to the Original Diet—644
]
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God’s Purpose in Restricting Israel’s Diet—641, 643, 644
]
Part 2—The Simple Diet
An Aid to Quick Perception
116. If ever there was a time when the diet should be of the most
simple kind, it is now.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:352, 1869
117. God wants men to cultivate force of character. Those who
are merely timeservers are not the ones who will receive a rich reward
by and by. He wants those who labor in His cause to be men of keen
feeling and quick perception. They should be temperate in eating; rich
and luxurious food should find no place upon their tables; and when
the brain is constantly taxed, and there is a lack of physical exercise,
they should eat sparingly, even of plain food. Daniel’s clearness of
mind and firmness of purpose, his strength of intellect in acquiring
knowledge, were due in a great degree to the plainness of his diet, in
connection with his life of prayer—
Testimonies for the Church 4:515,
516, 1880
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Simple Diet Chosen by Daniel—33, 34, 241, 242
]
118. My dear friends, instead of taking a course to baffle disease,
you are petting it and yielding to its power. You should avoid the use
of drugs, and carefully observe the laws of health. If you regard your
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life, you should eat plain food, prepared in the simplest manner, and
take more physical exercise. Each member of the family needs the
benefits of health reform. But drugging should be forever abandoned;
for while it does not cure any malady, it enfeebles the system, making
it more susceptible to disease.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:311,
1885