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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
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
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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
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.
Those who would be successful in proclaiming the principles of
health reform must make the word of God their guide and counselor.
Only as the teachers of health reform principles do this, can they stand
on vantage-ground. 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.