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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
The Health Reformer, June 1, 1878(Healthful Living, 86)
Gluttonous feasts, and food taken into the stomach at untimely
seasons, leave an influence upon every fiber of the system.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healthful Living, 167)
Nearly all the members of the human family eat more than the
system requires. This excess decays and becomes a putrid mass.... If
more food, even of a simple quality, is placed in the stomach than the
living machinery requires, this surplus becomes a burden. The system
makes desperate efforts to dispose of it, and this extra work causes
a tired feeling. Some who are continually eating call this “all gone”
feeling hunger, but it is caused by the overworked condition of the
abused digestive organs.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healthful Living, 89)
Often this intemperance is felt at once in the form of headache
and indigestion and colic. A load has been placed upon the stomach
that it can not care for, and a feeling of oppression comes. The head
is confused, the stomach is in rebellion. But these results do not
always follow overeating. In some cases the stomach is paralyzed. No
sensation of pain is felt, but the digestive organs lose their vital force.
The foundation of the human machinery is gradually undermined, and
life is rendered very unpleasant.
Unpublished Testimonies, April 6, 1896 (Healthful Living, 88)
There is evil in overeating of even healthful food.... If we overeat,
the brain power is taxed to take care of a large quantity of food that
the system does not demand, the mind is clouded, and the perceptions
enfeebled.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healthful Living, 27)
If appetite, which should be strictly guarded and controlled, is
indulged to the injury of the body, the penalty of transgression will
surely result.