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Section 15—Diet and Health
Important Principles
Seventh-day Adventists are handling momentous truths. On
the subject of temperance they should be in advance of all other
people. The question of how to preserve the health is one of primary
importance. When we study this question in the fear of God we
shall learn that it is best, both for our physical health and for our
spiritual advancement, to observe simplicity in diet. Let us patiently
study this question. We need knowledge and judgment in order to
move wisely in this matter. Nature’s laws are not to be resisted, but
obeyed.
Only when we are intelligent in regard to the principles of health
reform can we be fully aroused to see the evils resulting from an im-
proper diet. Those who, after seeing their mistakes, have courage to
change their habits, will find that the reformatory process requires a
struggle and much perseverance. But when correct tastes are formed,
they will realize that the use of food which they have formerly re-
garded as harmless was slowly but surely laying the foundation for
dyspepsia and other diseases.
Provide Nourishing Food
Some of our people conscientiously abstain from eating improper
food, and at the same time neglect to eat food that would supply
the elements necessary for the proper sustenance of the body. Let
us never bear a testimony against health reform by failing to use
wholesome, palatable food in place of the harmful articles of diet that
we have discarded. Much tact and discretion should be employed
in preparing nourishing food to take the place of that which has
constituted the diet of many families. This effort requires faith in
God, earnestness of purpose, and a willingness to help one another.
A diet lacking in the proper elements of nutrition brings reproach
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