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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
into good blood. This has laid a heavy tax on the liver, for the reason
that the digestive organs are deranged. You both have diseased livers.
The health reform would be a great benefit to you both, if you would
strictly carry it out. This you have failed to do. Your appetites are
morbid, and because you do not relish a plain, simple diet, composed
of unbolted wheat flour, vegetables and fruits prepared without spices
or grease, you are continually transgressing the laws which God has
established in your system. While you do this, you must suffer the
penalty; for to every transgression is affixed a penalty. Yet you wonder
at your continued poor health
There is no treatment which can relieve you of your present difficul-
ties while you eat and drink as you do. You can do that for yourselves
which the most experienced physician can never do. Regulate your
diet. In order to gratify the taste, you frequently place a severe tax
upon your digestive organs by receiving into the stomach food which
is not the most healthful, and at times in immoderate quantities. This
wearies the stomach, and unfits it for the reception of even the most
healthful food. You keep your stomachs constantly debilitated, be-
cause of your wrong habits of eating. Your food is made too rich. It
is not prepared in a simple, natural manner, but is totally unfitted for
the stomach when you have prepared it to suit your taste. Nature is
burdened, and endeavors to resist your efforts to cripple her. Chills and
fevers are the result of those attempts to rid herself of the burden you
lay upon her. You have to suffer the penalty of nature’s violated laws.
God has established laws in your system which you can not violate
without suffering the punishment. You have consulted taste without
reference to health. You have made some changes, but have merely
taken the first steps in reform diet. God requires of us temperance in
all things. “Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do
all to the glory of God.”
Of all the families I am acquainted with, none need the benefit
of the health reform more than yours. You groan under pains and
prostrations which you can not account for, and you try to submit
with as good a grace as you can, thinking affliction is your lot, and
Providence has thus ordained it. If you could have your eyes opened,
and could see the steps taken in your lifetime to walk right into your
present condition of poor health, you would be astonished at your
blindness in not seeing the real state of the case before. You have