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Flesh Meats and Stimulants
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of your eldest son is only evil over them. Correct your table. A
depraved, stimulating diet is strengthening the animal passions of
your children. Of all the families I am acquainted with, yours most
needs to dispense with flesh meats and grease, and learn to cook
hygienically.
Sister H is a woman whose blood is corrupt. Her system is full
of scrofulous humors from the eating of flesh meats. The use of
swine’s flesh in your family has imparted a bad quality of blood.
Sister H needs to confine herself strictly to a diet of grains, fruits,
and vegetables, cooked without flesh or grease of any kind. It will
take quite a length of time of strictly healthful diet to place you in
better conditions of health, where you will be rightly related to life.
It is impossible for those who make free use of flesh meats to have
an unclouded brain and an active intellect.
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We advise you to change your habits of living; but while you
do this we caution you to move understandingly. I am acquainted
with families who have changed from a meat diet to one that is
impoverished. Their food is so poorly prepared that the stomach
loathes it; and such have told me that the health reform did not agree
with them, that they were decreasing in physical strength. Here
is one reason why some have not been successful in their efforts
to simplify their food. They have a poverty-stricken diet. Food is
prepared without painstaking, and there is a continual sameness.
There should not be many kinds at any one meal, but all meals
should not be composed of the same kinds of food without variation.
Food should be prepared with simplicity, yet with a nicety which
will invite the appetite. You should keep grease out of your food. It
defiles any preparation of food you may make. Eat largely of fruits
and vegetables.
After they have reduced their physical strength by a reduced
quantity and a poor quality of food, some conclude that their former
way of living is the best. The system must be nourished. Yet we
do not hesitate to say that flesh meat is not necessary for health or
strength. If used it is because a depraved appetite craves it. Its use
excites the animal propensities to increased activity and strengthens
the animal passions. When the animal propensities are increased,
the intellectual and moral powers are decreased. The use of the flesh