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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
The Facts of Faith 2:130
Because it is the fashion, in harmony with morbid appetite, rich
cake, pies, and puddings, and every hurtful thing, are crowded into
the stomach. The table must be loaded down with a variety, or the
depraved appetite can not be satisfied. In the morning, these slaves
to appetite often have impure breath, and a furred tongue. They do
not enjoy health, and wonder why they suffer with pains, headaches,
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and various ills.... Persons who have indulged their appetite to eat
freely of meat, highly seasoned gravies, and various kinds of rich
cakes and preserves, can not immediately relish a plain, wholesome,
nutritious diet. Their taste is so perverted they have no appetite for a
wholesome diet of fruits, plain bread, and vegetables. They need not
expect to relish at first food so different from that in which they have
been indulging. If they can not at first enjoy plain food, they should
fast until they can. That fast will prove to them of greater benefit than
medicine, for the abused stomach will find the rest which it has long
needed, and real hunger can be satisfied with a plain diet. It will take
time for the taste to recover from the abuses it has received, and to gain
its natural tone. But perseverance in a self-denying course of eating
and drinking will soon make plain, wholesome food palatable, and it
will be eaten with greater satisfaction than the epicure enjoys over his
rich dainties.
Testimonies for the Church 2:367
It is important that the food should be prepared with care, that the
appetite, when not perverted, can relish it. Because we from principle
discard the use of meat, butter, mince pies, spices, lard, and that which
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 2:400
Flesh-meats, and rich cakes and pies prepared with spices of any
kind, are not the most healthful and nourishing diet.
Testimonies for the Church 2:487
No butter or flesh-meats of any kind come on my table. Cake is
seldom found there.