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action, and enfeebling the intellect. Parents do not realize that they are
sowing the seed which will bring forth disease and death.
Testimonies for the Church 4:502
Your children should not be allowed to eat candies, fruit, nuts, or
anything in the line of food, between their meals. Two meals a day
are better for them than three. If the parents set the example, and
move from principle, the children will soon fall into line. Irregularities
in eating destroy the healthy tone of the digestive organs, and when
your children come to the table, they do not relish wholesome food;
their appetites crave that which is the most hurtful for them. Many
times your children have suffered from fever and ague brought on
by improper eating, when their parents were accountable for their
sickness. It is the duty of parents to see that their children form habits
conducive to health, thereby saving much distress.
Testimonies for the Church 3:401
If professed Christians would use less of their wealth in adorning
the body and in beautifying their own houses, and would consume
less in extravagant, health-destroying luxuries upon their tables, they
could place much larger sums in the treasury of God. They would thus
imitate their Redeemer, who left heaven, His riches, and His glory,
and for our sakes became poor, that we might have eternal riches.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 57
Narrow ideas, an overstraining of small points, have been a great
injury to the cause of hygiene. There may be such an effort at economy
in the preparation of food, that, instead of a healthful diet, it becomes a
poverty-stricken diet. What is the result?—Poverty of the blood. I have
seen several cases of disease most difficult to cure, which were due
to impoverished diet. The persons thus afflicted were not compelled
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by poverty to adopt a meager diet, but did so in order to follow out
their own erroneous ideas of what constitutes health reform. Day after
day, meal after meal, the same articles of food were prepared without
variation, until dyspepsia and general debility resulted.