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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
upon the children of disobedience. What crimes, what sins, what
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iniquitous practices, are being revealed on every hand! As a peo-
ple we are to exercise great care in guarding our children against
depraved associates.
Teaching Health Principles
Greater efforts should be put forth to educate the people in the
principles of health reform. Cooking schools should be established,
and house-to-house instruction should be given in the art of cooking
wholesome food. Old and young should learn how to cook more
simply. Wherever the truth is presented, the people are to be taught
how to prepare food in a simple, yet appetizing way. They are to
be shown that a nourishing diet can be provided without the use of
flesh foods.
Teach the people that it is better to know how to keep well than
how to cure disease. Our physicians should be wise educators,
warning all against self-indulgence and showing that abstinence
from the things that God has prohibited is the only way to prevent
ruin of body and mind.
Much tact and discretion should be employed in preparing nour-
ishing food to take the place of that which has formerly constituted
the diet of those who are learning to be health reformers. Faith in
God, earnestness of purpose, and a willingness to help one another
will be required. A diet lacking in the proper elements of nutrition
brings reproach upon the cause of health reform. We are mortal and
must supply ourselves with food that will give proper nourishment
to the body.
Extremes in Diet
Some of our people, while conscientiously abstaining from eat-
ing improper foods, neglect to supply themselves with the elements
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necessary for the sustenance of the body. Those who take an ex-
treme view of health reform are in danger of preparing tasteless
dishes, making them so insipid that they are not satisfying. Food
should be prepared in such a way that it will be appetizing as well as
nourishing. It should not be robbed of that which the system needs.