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Counsels on Health
Great care should be exercised by those who prepare recipes for
our health journals. Some of the specially prepared foods now being
made can be improved, and our plans regarding their use will have to
be modified. Some have used the nut preparations too freely. Many
have written to me, “I cannot use the nut foods; what shall I use in
place of meat?” One night I seemed to be standing before a company
of people, telling them that nuts are used too freely in their preparation
of foods, that the system cannot take care of them when used as in
some of the recipes given, and that, if used more sparingly, the results
would be more satisfactory.
The Value of Fresh Fruits
The Lord desires those living in countries where fresh fruit can
be obtained during a large part of the year, to awake to the blessing
they have in this fruit. The more we depend upon the fresh fruit just
as it is plucked from the tree, the greater will be the blessing. Some,
after adopting a vegetarian diet, return to the use of flesh meat. This
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is foolish indeed, and reveals a lack of knowledge of how to provide
proper food in the place of meat.
Cooking schools, conducted by wise instructors, are to be held in
America and in other lands. Everything that we can do should be done
to show the people the value of the reform diet.
There is danger that our restaurants will be conducted in such a
way that our helpers will work very hard day after day and week after
week, and yet not be able to point to any good accomplished. This
matter needs careful consideration. We have no right to bind our young
people up in a work that yields no fruit to the glory of God.
There is danger that the restaurant work, though regarded as a
wonderfully successful way of doing good, will be so conducted that it
will promote merely the physical well-being of those whom it serves.
A work may apparently bear the features of supreme excellence, but
it is not good in God’s sight unless it is performed with an earnest
desire to do His will and fulfill His purpose. If God is not recognized
as the author and end of our actions, they are weighed in the balances
of the sanctuary, and found wanting.—
Testimonies for the Church
7:120
(1902).