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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 44
An increasing desire for rich food has been indulged, until it has
become the fashion to crowd all the delicacies possible into the stom-
ach. Especially at parties of pleasure is the appetite indulged with but
little restraint. Rich dinners and late suppers are served, consisting of
highly seasoned meats, with rich sauces, cakes, pies, ices, tea, coffee,
etc. No wonder that, with such a diet, people have sallow complexions,
and suffer untold agonies from dyspepsia.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 47-48
Those who use flesh-meats freely, do not always have an unclouded
brain and an active intellect, because the use of the flesh of animals
tends to cause a grossness of body, and to benumb the finer sensibilities
of the mind. The liability to disease is increased by flesh-eating. We
do not hesitate to say that meat is not essential to the maintenance of
health and strength.
Those who subsist largely upon meat, can not avoid sometimes
eating flesh which is more or less diseased. In many cases the process
of fitting animals for market produces an unhealthy condition. Shut
away from light and pure air, inhaling the atmosphere of filthy stables,
the entire body soon becomes contaminated with foul matter; and
when such flesh is received into the human body, it corrupts the blood,
and disease is produced. If the person already has impure blood, this
unhealthful condition will be greatly aggravated. But few can be made
to believe that it is the meat they have eaten which has poisoned their
blood and caused their suffering. Many die of diseases wholly due to
meat-eating, when the real cause is scarcely suspected by themselves
or others. Some do not immediately feel its effects, but this is no
evidence that it does not hurt them. It may be doing its work surely
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upon the system, yet for the time being the victim may realize nothing
of it.
T. Regarding the Use of Flesh Foods (Eight page tract)
Cancers, tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely caused
by meat-eating.
From the light God has given me, the prevalence of cancer and
tumors is largely due to gross living on dead flesh. I sincerely and