Healthful Cookery
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irritates the stomach and destroys health, the idea should never be
given that it is of but little consequence what we eat.
Testimonies for the Church 2:63
We advise you to change your habits of living; but while you do this
we caution you to move understandingly. I am acquainted with families
who have changed from a meat diet to one that is impoverished. Their
food is so poorly prepared that the stomach loathes it, and such have
told me that the health reform did not agree with them; that they were
decreasing in physical strength. Here is one reason why some have
not been successful in their efforts to simplify their food. They have a
poverty-stricken diet. Food is prepared without painstaking and there
is a continual sameness. There should not be many kinds at any one
meal, but all meals should not be composed of the same kinds of food
without variation. Food should be prepared with simplicity, yet with
a nicety which will invite the appetite. You should keep grease out
of your food. It defiles any preparation of food you may make. Eat
largely of fruits and vegetables.
Manuscript 93, 1901
Physicians should watch unto prayer, realizing that they stand in a
position of great responsibility. They should prescribe for their patients
the food best suited for them. This food should be prepared by one
who realizes that he occupies a most important position, insomuch as
good food is required to make good blood.
Letter K 100, 1903
Obtain the best help in the cooking that you can. If food is prepared
in such a way that it is a tax on the digestive organs, be sure that
investigation is needed. Food can be prepared in such a way as to be
both wholesome and palatable.
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 292;
To cook well, to place wholesome food upon the table in an inviting
manner, requires intelligence and experience. The one who prepares
the food that is to be placed in the stomach, to be converted into blood