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and that the practice of eating largely of meat is contracting diseases
of all kinds,—cancers, tumors, scrofula, tuberculosis, and numbers
of other like afflictions. If man will subsist on the food that God has
so abundantly provided without having it first pass into the animal
organism and become sinew and muscle, and then take it second-hand
by eating of the corpse, his health would be much better insured.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 25, 1897 (Healtful Living, 74
Many are made sick by the indulgence of their appetite. They eat
what suits their perverted taste, thus weakening the digestive organs,
and injuring their power to assimilate the food that is to sustain life
Thus the delicate machinery is worn out by the suicidal practices of
those who ought to know better. Sin indeed lies at the door. The door
is the mouth.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healtful Living, 181
Catarrhal difficulties, kidney disease, headache, and heart troubles
are the result of immoderate eating.
The Ministry of Healing, 146
There is great need of instruction in regard to dietetic reform.
Wrong habits of eating and the use of unhealthful food are in no small
degree responsible for the intemperance and crime and wretchedness
that curse the world.
The Ministry of Healing, 227
Many persons bring disease upon themselves by their self-
indulgence. They have not lived in accordance with natural law or the
principles of strict purity. Others have disregarded the laws of health
in their habits of eating and drinking, dressing, or working.
The Ministry of Healing, 234-235
Disease never comes without a cause. The way is prepared, and
disease invited, by disregard of the laws of health. Many suffer in
consequence of the transgression of their parents. While they are not
responsible for what their parents have done, it is nevertheless their