Chapter 5—Combinations
Letter B 135, 1902
Let those who advocate health reform strive earnestly to make it
all that they claim it is. Let them discard everything detrimental to
health. Use simple, wholesome food. Fruit is excellent, and saves
much cooking. Discard rich pastries, cakes, desserts, and the other
dishes prepared to tempt the appetite. Eat fewer kinds of food at one
meal, and eat with thanksgiving.
Testimonies for the Church 7:133-134
In the use of foods, we should exercise good, sound common sense.
When we find that a certain food does not agree with us, we need not
write letters of inquiry to learn the cause of the disturbance. Change
the diet; use less of some foods; try other preparations. Soon we shall
know the effect that certain combinations have on us. As intelligent
human beings, let us individually study the principles, and use our
experience and judgment in deciding what foods are best for us.
Review and Herald, July 29, 1884 (Healthful Living, 82.2)
Do not have too great a variety at a meal; three or four dishes are a
plenty. At the next meal you can have a change. The cook should tax
her inventive powers to vary the dishes she prepares for the table, and
the stomach should not be compelled to take the same kinds of food
meal after meal.
Manuscript 93, 1901
Many eat too rapidly. Others eat at one meal food which does not
agree. If men and women would only remember how greatly they
afflict the soul when they afflict the stomach, and how deeply Christ
is dishonored when the stomach is abused, they would be brave and
self-denying, giving the stomach opportunity to recover its healthy
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