Chapter 38b—Sanatarium Dietary
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Manuscript 93, 1901
The cook in a sanitarium should be a thorough health reformer. A
man is not converted unless his appetite and diet correspond with his
profession of faith.
The cook in a sanitarium should be a well trained medical mission-
ary. He should be a capable person, able to experiment for himself. He
should not confine himself to recipes. The Lord loves us, and He does
not want us to do ourselves harm by following unhealthful recipes.
At every sanitarium there will be some who will complain about
the food, saying that it does not suit them. They need to be educated
in regard to the evils of unhealthful diet. How can the brain be clear
while the stomach is suffering?
Letter K 37, 1901
There should be in our sanitarium a cook who thoroughly under-
stands the work, one who has good judgment, who can experiment,
who will not introduce into the food those things which should be
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avoided. It is well to leave sugar out of the crackers that are made.
Some enjoy best the sweetest crackers, but these are an injury to the
digestive organs. Butter should not be placed on the table; for if it is
some will use it too freely, and it will obstruct digestion.
Letter I 127, 1904
The danger of going to extremes in diet must be guarded against
in the sanitarium. We can not expect worldlings to accept at once that
which our people have been years in learning. Even now there are many
of our ministers who do not practice health reform, notwithstanding
the light they have had. We can not expect those who do not realize the
need of abstemiousness in diet, who have had no practical experience
on this subject, to take at once the wide step between self-indulgence
in eating and the most strenuous diet in health reform.
Those who come to the sanitarium must be provided with whole-
some food, prepared in the most palatable way consistent with right
principles. We can not expect them to live just as we live. The change
would be too great. And there are very few throughout our ranks who
live so abstemiously as Dr.-----has thought it wise to live. Changes