Chapter 41—Diet and Mind
Brain Must Be Healthy—The brain is the organ and instrument
of the mind, and controls the whole body. In order for the other parts
of the system to be healthy the brain must be healthy. And in order for
the brain to be healthy the blood must be pure. If by correct habits of
eating and drinking the blood is kept pure, the brain will be properly
nourished.—SpT Series B, No. 15, p 18, Apr 13, 1900. (
Counsels on
Health, 586, 587
.)
The Brain Supplied With Life and Strength—The human or-
ganism is a wonderful piece of machinery, but it can be abused The
transformation of food into good blood is a wonderful process, and all
human beings should be intelligent upon this subject....
Each organ of the body gathers its nutrition to keep its different
parts in action. The brain must be supplied with its share, the bone
with its portion. The great Master Builder is at work every moment,
supplying every muscle and tissue, from the brain to the ends of the
fingers and toes, with life and strength.—Lt 17, 1895.
Results of Flaunting Nature’s Laws—God has granted to this
people great light, yet we are not placed beyond the reach of temp-
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tation An invalid—apparently very conscientious, yet bigoted and
self-sufficient—freely avows his contempt for the laws of health and
life, which divine mercy has led us as a people to accept. His food
must be prepared in a manner to satisfy his morbid cravings. Rather
than sit at a table where wholesome food is provided, he will patronize
restaurants, because he can there indulge appetite without restraint. A
fluent advocate of temperance, he disregards its foundation principles.
He wants relief but refuses to obtain it at the price of self-denial.
That man is worshiping at the shrine of perverted appetite. He
is an idolater. The powers which, sanctified and ennobled, might
be employed to honor God, are weakened and rendered of little ser-
vice. An irritable temper, a confused brain, and unstrung nerves are
among the results of his disregard of nature’s laws. He is inefficient,
unreliable.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:196, 197
(1882).
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