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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Unless you give much attention to this matter, your patronage will
decrease instead of increasing. There is danger of going to extremes
in diet reform.
Last night I was in my sleep talking with Dr.-----. I said to him:
You must still exercise care in regard to extremes in diet. You must
not go to the extremes either in your own case or in regard to the food
provided for the helpers and patients at the sanitarium. The patients
pay a good price for their board, and they should have liberal fare.
Some may come to the sanitarium in a condition demanding stern
denial of appetite and the simplest fare, but as their health improves,
they should be liberally supplied with nourishing food.
You may be surprised at my writing this, but last night I was
instructed that a change in the diet would make a great difference in
your patronage. A more liberal diet is needed.
Testimonies for the Church 7:95
We are not building sanitariums for hotels. Receive into our san-
itariums only those who desire to conform to right principles, those
who will accept the foods that we can conscientiously place before
them. Should we allow patients to have intoxicating liquor in their
rooms, or should we serve them with meat, we could not give them
the help they should receive in coming to our sanitariums. We must
let it be known that from principle we exclude such articles from our
sanitariums and our hygienic restaurants. Do we not desire to see our
fellow-beings freed from disease and infirmity, and in the enjoyment
of health and strength? Then let us be as true to principle as the needle
to the pole.
Letter K 100, 1903
Obtain the best help in the cooking that you can. If food is prepared
in such a way that it is a tax on the digestive organs, be sure that
investigation is needed. Food can be prepared in such a way as to be
both wholesome and palatable.