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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
entered upon with great success. I tell you this because I know that
you are in positive danger. Food should be prepared in such a way that
it will be nourishing. It should not be robbed of that which the system
needs....
I use some salt, and always have, because from the light given
me by God, this article, in the place of being deleterious, is actually
essential for the blood. The why’s and wherefore’s of this I know not,
but I give you the instruction as it is given me.
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.
The Facts of Faith 2:129
There is a class who profess to believe the truth, who do not use
tobacco, snuff, tea, or coffee, yet they are guilty of gratifying the
appetite in a different manner. They crave highly-seasoned meats,
with rich gravies, and their appetite has become so perverted that they
can not be satisfied with even meat, unless prepared in a manner most
injurious. The stomach is fevered, the digestive organs are taxed, and
yet the stomach labors hard to dispose of the load forced upon it. After
the stomach 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
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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.
The Facts of Faith 2:131-132
The first great evil was intemperance in eating and drinking. Men
and women have made themselves slaves to appetite. They are intem-
perate in labor. A great amount of hard labor is preformed to obtain
food for their tables which greatly injure the already overtaxed system.
Women spend a great share of their time over a heated cook-stove,