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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Those who are changing from three meals a day, to two, will at first
be troubled more or less with faintness, especially about the time they
have been in the habit of eating their third meal. But if they persevere
for a short time this faintness will disappear.
The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work all
done, that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body.
The work of digestion should not be carried on through any period
of the sleeping hours. After the stomach, which has been overtaxed,
has performed its task, it becomes exhausted, which causes faintness.
Here many are deceived, and think that it is the want of food which
produces such feelings, and without giving the stomach time to rest,
they take more food, which for the time removes the faintness. And
the more the appetite is indulged, the more will be its clamors for
gratification. This faintness is generally the result of meat-eating,
and eating frequently, and too much. The stomach becomes weary by
being kept constantly at work, disposing of food not the most healthful.
Having no time for rest, the digestive organs become enfeebled, hence
the sense of “goneness,” and desire for frequent eating. The remedy
such require, is to eat less frequently and less liberally, and be satisfied
with plain, simple food, eating twice, or, at most, three times a day. The
stomach must have its regular periods for labor and rest, hence eating
irregularly and between meals, is a most pernicious violation of the
laws of health. With regular habits, and proper food, the stomach will
gradually recover. See also
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene,
50-51
The Facts of Faith 2:153-154
I have thought for years that I was dependent upon a meat diet for
strength. I have eaten three meals a day until within a few months. It
has been very difficult for me to go from one meal to another without
suffering from faintness at the stomach, and dizziness of the head.
Eating would remove these feelings. I seldom allowed myself to eat
anything between my regular meals, and have made it a practice to
often retire without supper. But I have suffered greatly for want of
food from breakfast to dinner, and have frequently fainted. Eating
meat removed for the time these faint feelings. I therefore decided that
meat was indispensable in my case.