Chapter 41—Sugar
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 57
Some use milk and a large amount of sugar on mush, thinking that
they are carrying out health reform. But the sugar and milk combined
are liable to cause fermentation in the stomach, and are thus harmful.
The free use of sugar in any form tends to clog the system, and is not
unfrequently a cause of disease.
Testimonies for the Church 2:369-370
Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the working of the living ma-
chine.
There was one case in Montcalm County, Mich., to which I will
refer. The individual was a noble man. He stood six feet, and was
of fine appearance. I was called to visit him in his sickness. I had
previously conversed with him in regard to his manner of living. “I do
not like the looks of your eyes,” said I. He was eating large quantities
of sugar. I asked him why he did this. He said that he had left off meat,
and did not know what would supply its place as well as sugar. His
food did not satisfy him, simply because his wife did not know how
to cook. Some of you send your daughters, who have nearly grown
to womanhood, to school to learn the sciences before they know how
to cook, when this should be made of the first importance. Here was
a woman who did not know how to cook; she had not learned how
to prepare healthful food. The wife and mother was deficient in this
important branch of education; and as the result, poorly-cooked food
not being sufficient to sustain the demands of the system, sugar was
eaten immoderately, which brought on a diseased condition of the
entire system. This man’s life was sacrificed unnecessarily to bad
cooking. When I went to see the sick man, I tried to tell them as
well as I could how to manage, and soon he began slowly to improve.
But he imprudently exercised his strength when not able, ate a small
amount not of the right quality, and was taken down again. This time
there was no help for him. His system appeared to be a living mass of
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