Proper Diet
309
It is not well to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal. If
the digestion is feeble, the use of both will often cause distress, and
inability to put forth mental effort. It is better to have the fruit at one
meal, and the vegetables at another.
The meals should be varied. The same dishes, prepared in the
same way, should not appear on the table meal after meal and day after
day. The meals are eaten with greater relish, and the system is better
nourished, when the food is varied.
The Ministry of Healing, 316
It is a mistake to suppose that muscular strength depends on the
use of animal food. The needs of the system can be better supplied,
and more vigorous health can be enjoyed, without its use. The grains,
with fruits, nuts, and vegetables, contain all the nutritive properties
necessary to make good blood. These elements are not so well or so
fully supplied by a flesh diet. Had the use of flesh been essential to
health and strength, animal food should have been included in the diet
appointed man in the beginning.
Letter B 135, 1902
Some of our people conscientiously abstain from eating improper
food, and at the same time neglect to eat the food that would supply the
elements necessary for the proper sustenance of the body. Let us never
bear testimony against health reform by failing to use wholesome,
palatable food in place of the harmful articles of diet that we have
discarded. Much tact and discretion should be employed in preparing
nourishing food to take the place of that which has constituted the
diet of many families. This effort requires faith in God, earnestness of
purpose, and a willingness to help one another. A diet lacking in the
proper elements of nutrition brings reproach upon the cause of health
reform. We are mortal, and must supply ourselves with food that will
give proper sustenance to the body.
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