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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
meat-eating is apparently similar to the complainings, lamentations,
and weeping of the children of Israel in the ears of the Lord.
Our sanitariums should never be conducted after the fashion of the
hotel. A meat diet changes the disposition and strengthens animalism.
We are composed of what we eat, and eating much flesh will diminish
intellectual activity. Students would accomplish much more in their
studies if they never tasted meat. When the animal part of the human
agent is strengthened by meat-eating, the intellectual powers diminish
proportionately. A religious life can be more successfully gained and
maintained if meat is discarded, for this diet stimulates into intense
activities lustful propensities, and enfeebles the moral and spiritual
nature. “The flesh warreth against the spirit, and the spirit against the
flesh.”
We greatly need to encourage and cultivate pure, chaste thoughts,
and to strengthen the moral powers rather than the lower and carnal
powers. God help us to break from our self-indulgent appetites. The
idea of eating dead flesh is abhorrent to me; the thought of one living
animal eating the flesh of another animal is shocking. There is no call
for it.
All your excuses made in regard to faintness is an argument why
you should eat no more meat.
Cancers, tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely caused
by meat-eating.
From the light God has given me, the prevalence of cancer and
tumors is largely due to gross living on dead flesh. I sincerely and
prayerfully hope that, as a physician, you will not forever be blind on
this subject, for blindness is mingled with a want of moral courage to
deny our appetite, to lift the cross, which means, to take up the very
duties which cut across the natural passions. Feeding on flesh, the
juices and fluids of what you eat pass into the circulation of your blood,
and, as we are composed of what we eat, we become animalized; thus
a feverish condition is created, because the animals are diseased, and
by partaking of their flesh, we plant the seeds of disease in our own
tissue and blood. Then when exposed to the changes in a malarious
atmosphere, these are more sensibly felt; also when we are exposed
to prevailing epidemics and contagious diseases the system is not in
condition to resist the disease.