Chapter 45—Improper Eating a Cause of Disease
How to Live, 49-50
The human family have brought upon themselves diseases of var-
ious forms by their own wrong habits. They have not studied how
to live healthfully, and their transgression of the laws of their being
has produced a deplorable state of things. The people have seldom
accredited their sufferings to the true cause—their own wrong course
of action. They have indulged in intemperance in eating, and made a
God of their appetite. In all their habits they have manifested a reck-
lessness in regard to health and life; and when, as the result, sickness
has come upon them they have made themselves believe that God was
the author of it, when their own wrong course of action has brought
the sure result.
The Facts of Faith 2:129-132
The first great evil was intemperance in eating and drinking. Men
and women have made themselves slaves to appetite. They are intem-
perate in labor. A great amount of hard labor is performed to obtain
food for their tables which greatly injure the already over-taxed system.
Women spend a great share of their time over a heated cook-stove,
preparing food, highly seasoned with spices to gratify the taste. As a
consequence, the children are neglected, and do not receive moral and
religious instruction. The over-worked mother neglects to cultivate a
sweetness of temper, which is the sunshine of the dwelling. Eternal
considerations become secondary. All the time has to be employed
in preparing these things for the appetite which ruin health, sour the
temper, and becloud the reasoning faculties.
The Facts of Faith 2:133-134
Indulging in eating too frequently, and in too large quantities, over-
taxes the digestive organs and produces a feverish state of the system.
The blood becomes impure, and then diseases of various kinds occur.
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