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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Testimonies for the Church 7:257
At bountiful tables, men often eat much more than can be easily
digested. The overburdened stomach can not do its work properly. The
result is a disagreeable feeling of dullness in the brain, and the mind
does not act quickly. Disturbance is created by improper combinations
of food; fermentation sets in; the blood is contaminated and the brain
confused.
The habit of overeating, or of eating too many kinds of food at one
meal, frequently causes dyspepsia. Serious injury is thus done to the
delicate digestive organs. In vain the stomach protests, and appeals to
the brain to reason from cause to effect. The excessive amount of food
eaten, or the improper combination, does its injurious work. In vain do
disagreeable premonitions give warning. Suffering is the consequence.
Disease takes the place of health.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 25, 1897 (Healthful Living,
207.1)
Many are made sick by the indulgence of appetite.... So many
varieties are introduced into the stomach that fermentation is the result.
This condition brings on acute disease, and death frequently follows.
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896 (Healthful Living,
166.2)
The less that condiments and desserts are placed upon our tables,
the better it will be for all who partake of the food. All mixed and
complicated foods are injurious to the health of human beings. Dumb
animals would never eat such a mixture as is often placed in the
human stomach.... Rich and complicated mixtures of food are health
destroying.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 57
Some use milk and a large amount of sugar on mush, thinking
that they are carrying out health reform. But the sugar and the milk
combined are liable to cause fermentation in the stomach, and are thus
harmful.