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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
The Ministry of Healing, 308
Where wrong habits of diet have been indulged, there should be
no delay in reform. When dyspepsia has resulted from abuse of the
stomach, efforts should be made carefully to preserve the remaining
strength of the vital forces, by removing every over-taxing burden.
The stomach may never entirely recover health after long abuse; but a
proper course of diet will save further debility, and many will recover
more or less fully. It is not easy to prescribe rules that will meet every
case; but with attention to right principles in eating, great reforms may
be made, and the cook need not be continually toiling to tempt the
appetite.
Abstemiousness in diet is rewarded with mental and moral vigor;
it also aids in the control of the passions.
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