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Section 12—The Prevention of Disease and Its Cure by Rational Methods
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all drugs and live simply, without using tea, coffee, liquor, or spices,
which irritate the stomach and leave it weak, unable to digest even
simple food without stimulation. The Lord is willing to let His light
shine forth in clear, distinct rays to all who are weak and feeble.
Vegetables, fruits, and grains should compose our diet. Not an
ounce of flesh-meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh is
unnatural. We are to return to God’s original purpose in the creation
of man.—
Manuscript 115, 1903.
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What We Can Do for Ourselves
In regard to that which we can do for ourselves: There is a
point that requires careful, thoughtful consideration. I must become
acquainted with myself. I must be a learner always as to how to take
care of this building, the body God has given me, that I may preserve
it in the very best condition of health. I must eat those things which
will be for my very best good physically, and I must take special care
to have my clothing such as will conduce to a healthful circulation
of the blood. I must not deprive myself of exercise and air. I must
get all the sunlight that it is possible for me to obtain. I must have
wisdom to be a faithful guardian of my body.
I should do a very unwise thing to enter a cool room when in
a perspiration; I should show myself an unwise steward to allow
myself to sit in a draft and thus expose myself so as to take cold.
I should be unwise to sit with cold feet and limbs and thus drive
back the blood from the extremities to the brain or internal organs.
I should always protect my feet in damp weather. I should eat
regularly of the most healthful food which will make the best quality
of blood, and I should not work intemperately if it is in my power to
avoid doing so. And when I violate the laws God has established in
my being, I am to repent and reform, and place myself in the most
favorable condition under the doctors God has provided—pure air,
pure water, and the healing, precious sunlight.
Presumption and Indolence
If we neglect to do that which is within the reach of nearly
every family, and ask the Lord to relieve pain when we are too