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Food to Be Wholesome and Palatable, October 17
Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what
does not satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your
soul delight itself in abundance.
Isaiah 55:2
, NKJV.
Some of our people, while conscientiously abstaining from eating improper
foods, neglect to supply themselves with the elements necessary for the sustenance
of the body. Those who take an extreme 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. I use some salt, and always
have, because salt, instead of being deleterious, is actually essential for the blood.
Vegetables should be made palatable with a little milk or cream, or something
equivalent.
While warnings have been given regarding the dangers of disease through butter,
and the evil of the free use of eggs by small children, yet we should not consider it
a violation of principle to use eggs from hens which are well cared for and suitably
fed. Eggs contain properties which are remedial agencies in counteracting certain
poisons.
Some, in abstaining from milk, eggs, and butter, have failed to supply the system
with proper nourishment, and as a consequence have become weak and unable to
work. Thus health reform is brought into disrepute. The work that we have tried to
build up solidly is confused with strange things that God has not required, and the
energies of the church are crippled. But God will interfere to prevent the results of
these too strenuous ideas. The gospel is to harmonize the sinful race. It is to bring
the rich and poor together at the feet of Jesus.
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the articles of diet
we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs; but it is not necessary to bring
upon ourselves perplexity by premature and extreme restrictions. Wait until the
circumstances demand it, and the Lord prepares the way for it....
Let us never bear a testimony against health reform by failing to use wholesome,
palatable food in place of the harmful articles of diet that we have discarded. Do not
in any way encourage an appetite for stimulants. Eat only plain, simple, wholesome
food, and thank God constantly for the principles of health reform. In all things be
true and upright, and you will gain precious victories.—
The Review and Herald,
March 3, 1910
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