28
Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
action. While sitting at the table we may do medical missionary work
by eating and drinking to the glory of God.
Unpublished Testimonies, October 29, 1894 (Healthful Living,
82.6)
I advise the people to give up sweet puddings or custards made
with eggs and milk and sugar, and to eat the best home-made bread,
both graham and white, with dried or green fruits, and let that be the
only course for one meal; then let the next meal be of nicely prepared
vegetables.
[17]
The Youth’s Instructor, May 31, 1894 (Healthful Living, 83.1)
If we would preserve the best health, we should avoid eating veg-
etables and fruit at the same meal. If the stomach is feeble, there will
be distress, and the brain will be confused, and unable to put forth
mental effort. Have fruit at one meal and vegetables at the next.
Testimonies for the Church 2:63
There should not be many kinds at any one meal, but all meals
should not be composed of the same kinds of food without variation.
Food should be prepared with simplicity, yet with nicety which will
invite the appetite.
Gospel Workers, 174
Another cause of ill health and of inefficiency in labor, is indi-
gestion. It is impossible for the brain to do its best work when the
digestive powers are abused. Many eat hurriedly of various kinds of
food, which set up a war in the stomach, and thus confuse the brain.
Manuscript 3, 1897
It is not well to take a great variety of foods at one meal. When
fruit and bread, together with a variety of other foods that do not agree
are crowded into the stomach at one meal, what can we expect but that
a disturbance will be created?