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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
and sugar do. Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the working of the
living machine.
There was one case in Montcalm County, Michigan, 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
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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 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.
Our sisters often do not know how to cook. To such I would say:
I would go to the very best cook that could be found in the country,