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Counsels on Diet and Foods
If we would work for the restoration of health, it is necessary to
restrain the appetite, to eat slowly, and only a limited variety at one
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time. This instruction needs to be repeated frequently. It is not in
harmony with the principles of health reform to have so many different
dishes at one meal. We must never forget that it is the religious part of
the work, the work of providing food for the soul, that is more essential
than anything else.—
Letter 271, 1905
The Mission of Hygienic Restaurants
416. It was presented to me that we should not rest satisfied because
we have a vegetarian restaurant in Brooklyn, but that others should be
established in other sections of the city. The people living in one part
of Greater New York do not know what is going on in other parts of
that great city. Men and women who eat at the restaurants established
in different places will become conscious of an improvement in health.
Their confidence once gained, they will be more ready to accept God’s
special message of truth.
Wherever medical missionary work is carried on in our large cities,
cooking schools should be held; and wherever a strong educational
missionary work is in progress, a hygienic restaurant of some sort
should be established, which shall give a practical illustration of the
proper selection and the healthful preparation of foods.—
Testimonies
for the Church 7:55, 1902
417. The Lord has a message for our cities, and this message we are
to proclaim in our camp meetings and by other public efforts, and also
through our publications. In addition to this, hygienic restaurants are
to be established in the cities, and by them the message of temperance
is to be proclaimed. Arrangements should be made to hold meetings
in connection with our restaurants. Whenever possible, let a room be
provided where the patrons can be invited to lectures on the science of
health and Christian temperance, where they can receive instruction on
the preparation of wholesome food and on other important subjects. In
these meetings there should be prayer and singing and talks, not only
on health and temperance topics, but also on other appropriate Bible
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subjects. As the people are taught how to preserve physical health,
many opportunities will be found to sow the seeds of the gospel of the
kingdom.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:115, 1902