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Temperance
unstimulating in its effects, can endure more labor in the course of
months and years than the meat eater or the liquor drinker. They who
work in the open air will feel less injury from the use of flesh-meats
than those of sedentary habits, for sun and air are great helps to
digestion, and do much to counteract the effect of wrong habits of
eating and drinking.
The Effects of Stimulants
—All stimulants hurry the human ma-
chinery too fast, and although, for the time, activity and vigor may
seem to be increased, in proportion to the irritating influence em-
ployed, there must be a reaction; a debility will follow corresponding
in degree to the unnatural excitement that has been produced.
When this debility is felt, something to stimulate and tone up
the system is again used to give immediate relief from disagreeable
languor. Nature is gradually educated to rely upon this oft-repeated
remedy, until her powers are enfeebled by being often aroused to
unnatural action. All persons should become acquainted with the
laws of their being. It should be an important subject of study, how
to live, how to regulate labor, and how to eat and drink in reference
to health.
The more simply and naturally we live the better shall we be
able to resist epidemic and disease. If our habits are good and the
system is not weakened by unnatural action, Nature will furnish all
the stimulus that we require....
Appetite an Unsafe Guide
—The rule which some recommend,
is to eat whenever there is a sense of hunger, and to eat until satisfied.
This course will lead to disease and numerous evils. Appetite at the
present day is not generally natural, therefore is not a correct index
to the wants of the system. It has been pampered and misdirected
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until it has become morbid and can no longer be a safe guide. Nature
has been abused, her efforts crippled by wrong habits and indulgence
in sinful luxuries, until taste and appetite are alike perverted.
It is unnatural to have a craving for flesh meats. It was not thus
in the beginning. The appetite for meat has been made and educated
by man. Our Creator has furnished us, in vegetables, grains, and
fruits, all the elements of nutrition necessary to health and strength.
Flesh meats composed no part of the food of Adam and Eve before
their fall. If fruits, vegetables, and grains are not sufficient to meet