Sugar
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corruption. He died a victim to poor cooking. He tried to make sugar
supply the place of good cooking, and it only made matters worse.
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.
The Ministry of Healing, 302
Far too much sugar is ordinarily used in foods. Cakes, sweet
puddings, pastries, jellies, jams, are active causes of indigestion. Espe-
cially harmful are the custards and puddings in which milk, eggs, and
sugar are the chief ingredients. The free use of milk and sugar taken
together should be avoided.
Manuscript 93, 1901
Sugar is not good for the stomach. It causes fermentation, and this
clouds the brain and brings peevishness into the disposition.
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Testimonies for the Church 6:327
The indifference with which the health books have been treated by
many is an offense to God. To separate the health work from the great
body of the work is not in His order. Present truth lies in the work of
health reform as verily as in other features of gospel work. No one
branch when separated from others can be a perfect whole.
The gospel of health has able advocates, but their work has been
made very hard because so many ministers, presidents of conferences,
and others in positions of influence, have failed to give the question of
health reform its proper attention. They have not recognized it in its
relation to the work of the message as the right arm of the body. While
very little respect has been shown to this department by many of the
people, and by some of the ministers, the Lord has shown His regard