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Section 15—Diet and Health
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for the market, and people eat freely of this poisonous food. Such a
diet contaminates the blood and stimulates the lower passions.
Many parents act as if they were bereft of reason. They are in a
state of lethargy, palsied by the indulgence of perverted appetite and
debasing passion. Our ministers, who know the truth, should arouse
the people from the paralyzed condition and lead them to put away
those things that create an appetite for flesh-meat. If they neglect
to reform, they will lose spiritual power, and become more and
more debased by sinful indulgence. Habits that disgust the heavenly
universe, habits that degrade human beings lower than the beasts,
are practiced in many homes. Let all those who know the truth, say,
“Flee fleshly lusts, that war against the soul.”
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Examples in Rightdoing
Let not any of our ministers set an evil example in the eating
of flesh-meat. Let them and their families live up to the light of
health reform. Let not our ministers animalize their own nature and
the nature of their children. Children whose desires have not been
restrained are tempted not only to indulge in the common habits of
intemperance, but to give loose rein to their lower passions and to
disregard purity and virtue. These are led on by Satan not only to
corrupt their own bodies, but to whisper their evil communications to
others. If parents are blinded by sin they will often fail of discerning
these things.—
Manuscript 33, 1902.
Making Dyspeptics
We shall soon reach a time when we must understand the mean-
ing of a simple diet. The time is not far hence when we shall be
obliged to adopt a diet very different from our present diet....
We need to study the art of preparing in a simple manner the
fruits, grains, and vegetables. We do not need these complex combi-
nations that are provided. As the matter now stands we are in danger
of making dyspeptics.—
Manuscript 150, 1905.