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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 Injure Health Reform
Some of our people, while conscientiously abstaining from eating
improper foods, neglect to supply themselves with the elements neces-
sary 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 that are well cared for and suitably fed. Eggs contain properties
that 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