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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Letter K 79, 1905
The Lord has opened this matter before me. The perverted habits of
the world and the declension of religion have brought in indulgences
of appetite and wrong habits of eating and drinking. The world is
given over to self-indulgence and extravagance. Our sanitariums are
established to educate people in regard to right habits of living....
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The light given me was that a sanitarium should be established,
and that in it drug medication should be discarded, and simple, rational
methods of treatment employed for the healing of disease. In this
institution people were to be taught how to dress, breathe, and eat
properly—how to prevent sickness by proper habits of living.
Letter B 5, 1904
Let those who are sick do all in their power, by correct practise
in eating, drinking, and dressing, and by taking judicious exercise,
to secure the recovery of health. Let the patients who come to our
sanitariums be taught to co-operate with God in seeking health. “Ye
are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.” God made nerve and
muscle in order that they might be used. It is the inaction of the human
machinery that brings suffering and disease.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 160
Physicians often advise invalids to visit foreign countries, to go
to some mineral spring, or to traverse the ocean, in order to regain
health; when, in nine cases out of ten, if they would eat temperately,
and engage in healthful exercise with a cheerful spirit, they would
regain health and save time and money. Exercise, and a free, abundant
use of the air and sunlight—blessings which heaven has bestowed
upon all—would in many cases give life and strength to the emaciated
invalid.
How to Live, 3:61
Many are living in violation of the laws of health, and are ignorant
of the relation their habits of eating, drinking and working, sustain to
their health. They will not arouse to their true condition, until nature
protests against the abuses she is suffering, by aches and pains in the
system. If, even then, the sufferers would only commence the work