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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
become weak and unable to work. Thus health reform is brought into
disrepute. The work that we have tried to build up solidly is confused
with strange things that God has not required, and the energies of the
church are crippled. But God will interfere to prevent the results of
these too strenuous ideas. The gospel is to harmonize the sinful race.
It is to bring the rich and poor together at the feet of Jesus.
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the
articles of diet we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs; but it
is not necessary to bring upon ourselves perplexity by premature and
extreme restrictions. Wait until the circumstances demand it, and the
Lord prepares the way for it.
The Ministry of Healing, 320-321
Those who live in new countries or in poverty-stricken districts
where fruits and nuts are scarce, should not be urged to exclude milk
and eggs from their dietary. It is true that persons in full flesh and in
whom animal passions are strong need to avoid the use of stimulating
foods. Especially in families of children who are given to sensual
habits, eggs should not be used. But in the case of persons whose
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blood-making organs are feeble,—especially if other foods to supply
the needed elements can not be obtained,—milk and eggs should not
be wholly discarded. Great care should be taken, however, to obtain
milk from healthy cows and eggs from healthy fowls, that are well fed
and well cared for; and the eggs should be so cooked as to be most
easily digested.
The diet reform should be progressive. As disease in animals
increases, the use of milk and eggs will become more and more unsafe.
An effort should be made to supply their place with other things that
are healthful and inexpensive. The people everywhere should be taught
how to cook without milk and eggs, so far as possible, and yet have
their food wholesome and palatable.