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Counsels on Diet and Foods
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Camp Meeting Demonstrations—763
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The Need for Meat Substitute Pointed out in 1884—720
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Skillful Arrangement of Bounties, An Aid in Health Reform—
710
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Tact and Discernment Required in Work of Giving Instruction in
Meatless Cookery—816
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Poor Cooking a Cause of Disease
384. For want of knowledge and skill in regard to cooking, many a
wife and mother daily sets before her family ill-prepared food, which
is steadily and surely impairing the digestive organs, and making a
poor quality of blood; the result is, frequent attacks of inflammatory
disease, and sometimes death....
We can have a variety of good, wholesome food, cooked in a
healthful manner, so that it will be palatable to all. It is of vital
importance to know how to cook. Poor cooking produces disease
and bad tempers; the system becomes deranged, and heavenly things
cannot be discerned. There is more religion in good cooking than
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you have any idea of. When I have been away from home sometimes,
I have known that the bread upon the table, as well as most of the
other food, would hurt me; but I would be obliged to eat a little in
order to sustain life. It is a sin in the sight of Heaven to have such
food.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 156-158, 1890
Appropriate Epitaphs
385. Scanty, ill-cooked food depraves the blood by weakening the
blood-making organs. It deranges the system, and brings on disease,
with its accompaniment of irritable nerves and bad tempers. The vic-
tims of poor cookery are numbered by thousands and tens of thousands.
Over many graves might be written: “Died because of poor cooking;”
“Died of an abused stomach.”—
The Ministry of Healing, 302, 303,
1905
Souls Lost Because of Poor Cooking
It is sacred duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare health-
ful food. Many souls are lost as the result of poor cookery. It takes
thought and care to make good bread; but there is more religion in a