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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
to nourish the system, occupies a most important and elevated position.
The position of copyist, dressmaker, or music teacher can not equal in
importance that of the cook.
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896 (Healthful Living, 81)
Food should be thoroughly cooked, nicely prepared, and appetiz-
ing.
The Youth’s Instructor, May 31, 1894 (Healthful Living, 77)
We need persons who will educate themselves to cook healthfully.
Many know how to cook meats and vegetables in different forms, yet
do not understand how to prepare simple and appetizing dishes.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 46-47
Many a mother sets a table that is a snare to her family. Flesh-
meats, butter, cheese, rich pastry, spiced foods, and condiments are
freely partaken of by both old and young. These things do their work
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in deranging the stomach, exciting the nerves, and enfeebling the
intellect. The blood-making organs can not convert such things into
good blood. The grease cooked in the food renders it difficult of
digestion.
Testimonies for the Church 2:485
There has not been in this family the right management in regard
to diet; there has been irregularity. There should have been a specified
time for each meal, and the food should have been prepared in a simple
form, and free from grease; but pains should have been taken to have it
nutritious, healthful, and inviting. In this family, as also in many others,
a special parade has been made for visitors; many dishes prepared and
frequently made too rich, so that those seated at the table would be
tempted to eat to excess. Then in the absence of company there was
a great reaction, a falling off in the preparations brought on the table.
The diet was spare, and lacked nourishment. It was considered not so
much matter “just for ourselves.” The meals were frequently picked
up, and the regular time for eating not regarded. Every member of
the family was injured by such management. It is a sin for any of our