A Harmful Combination
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Testimonies for the Church 2:368-370
(1869).]
In regard to milk and sugar: I know of persons who have become
frightened at the health reform and said they would have nothing to
do with it, because it has spoken against a free use of these things.
Changes should be made with great care, and we should move cau-
tiously and wisely. We want to take that course which will recommend
itself to the intelligent men and women of the land. Large quantities
of milk and sugar eaten together are injurious. They impart impurities
to the system.... 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....
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 brought on a diseased condition of the
entire system....
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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.
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