Chapter 29—Milk and Sugar
Testimonies for the Church 2:368-369
Now in regard to milk and sugar: I know of persons who have
become frightened at the health reform, and said they would have
nothing to do with it, because it has spoken against a free use of
these things. Changes should be made with great care; and we should
move cautiously and wisely. We want to take that course which will
recommend itself to the intelligent men and women of the land. Large
quantities of milk and sugar eaten together are injurious. They impart
impurities to the system. Animals from which milk is obtained are
not always healthy. They may be diseased. A cow may be apparently
well in the morning, and die before night. Then she was diseased in
the morning, and her milk was diseased, but you did not know it. The
animal creation is diseased. Flesh-meats are diseased. Could we know
that animals were in perfect health, I would recommend that people
eat flesh-meats sooner than large quantities of milk and sugar. It would
not do the injury that milk and sugar do. Sugar clogs the system. It
hinders the working of the living machine.
Testimonies for the Church 2:370
I frequently sit down to the tables of the brethren and sisters, and
see that they use a great amount of milk and sugar. These clog the
system, irritate the digestive organs, and affect the brain. Anything
that hinders the active motion of the living machinery, affects the brain
very directly. And from the light given me, sugar, when largely used,
is more injurious than meat. These changes should be made cautiously,
and the subject should be treated in a manner not calculated to disgust
and prejudice those whom we would teach and help.
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