Adherence to a Simple Diet
If ever there was a time when the diet should be of the most simple
kind, it is now. Meat should not be placed before our children. Its
influence is to excite and strengthen the lower passions and has a
tendency to deaden the moral powers. Grains and fruits prepared free
from grease, and in as natural a condition as possible, should be the
food for the tables of all who claim to be preparing for translation to
heaven. The less feverish the diet, the more easily can the passions be
controlled. Gratification of taste should not be consulted irrespective
of physical, intellectual, or moral health.
Indulgence of the baser passions will lead very many to shut their
eyes to the light; for they fear that they will see sins which they are
unwilling to forsake. All may see if they will. If they choose darkness
rather than light, their criminality will be none the less. Why do not
men and women read and become intelligent upon these things, which
so decidedly affect their physical, intellectual, and moral strength?—
Testimonies for the Church 2:352
(1869).
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