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There is a way of combining and preparing food that will make it
both wholesome and nourishing. Those in charge of the cooking in
our sanitariums should understand how to do this. The matter should
be treated from a Bible standpoint. There is such a thing as robbing
the body of nutrition. The preparation of the food in the best manner
possible is to become a science.—
Letter 127, 1904
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Further Statements Regarding Extremes in Sanitarium Diet—324,
331
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Influence of Short Rations or Unpalatable Food
430. They must have ... the best quality of all sorts of healthful
food. Those who have been in the habit of indulging the appetite with
every luxury, if they come to the retreat and find at their first meal a
meager diet, the impression is made at once on their minds that the
reports which they have heard concerning the Adventists living so poor
and starving themselves to death, is true. One meal of short rations
will do more to the discredit of the institution than all the influences in
other directions that can be made to counteract it. If we ever expect
to meet the people where they are and bring them up to a sensible
health reform diet, we must not begin by setting before them a radical
diet. There must be placed upon the table nicely cooked dishes, and
an abundance of good, palatable food, else those who think so much
of what they eat will think they will surely starve to death. We want to
have good dishes nicely prepared.—
Letter 61, 1886
Flesh Foods Not a Part of the Sanitarium Dietary
431. I have received instruction in regard to the use of flesh meat
in our sanitariums. Flesh meat should be excluded from the diet, and
its place should be supplied by wholesome, palatable food, prepared
in such a way as to be appetizing.—
Letter 37, 1904
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432. Brother and Sister-----, I wish to present for your considera-
tion a few points that have been revealed to me since first there arose
the difficulties connected with the question of discarding flesh meat
from the tables of our medical institutions....
I have been plainly instructed by the Lord that flesh meat should
not be placed before the patients in our sanitarium dining rooms. Light
was given me that the patients could have flesh meat, if, after hearing