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Counsels on Diet and Foods
Diseased meat is not rare, but common. Every phase of disease is
brought into the human system through subsisting upon the flesh of
dead animals. The feebleness and weakness in consequence of a
change from a meat diet will soon be overcome, and physicians ought
to understand that they should not make the stimulus of meat eating
essential for health and strength. All who leave it alone intelligently,
after becoming accustomed to the change, will have health of sinews
and muscles.—
Letter 54, 1896
435. Doctor-----asked me if, under any circumstances, I would
advise the drinking of chicken broth, if one were sick and could not
take anything else into the stomach. I said, “There are persons dying
of consumption who, if they ask for chicken broth, should have it. But
I would be very careful.” The example should not injure a sanitarium
or make excuse for others to think their case required the same diet.
I asked Doctor-----if she had such a case in the sanitarium. She said,
“No; but I have a sister in the sanitarium at-----, who is very weak. She
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has weak sinking spells, but cooked chicken she can eat.” I said, “It
would be best to remove her from the sanitarium.... The light given
me is that if the sister you mention would brace up and cultivate her
taste for wholesome food, all these sinking spells would pass away.”
She has cultivated her imagination; the enemy has taken advantage
of her weakness of body; and her mind is not braced to bear up against
the hardships of everyday life. It is good, sanctified mind cure she
needs, an increase of faith, and active service for Christ. She needs
also the exercise of her muscles in outside practical labor. Physical
exercise will be to her one of the greatest blessings of her life. She
need not be an invalid, but a wholesome-minded, healthy woman,
prepared to act her part nobly and well.
All the treatment that may be given to this sister will be of little
advantage unless she acts her part. She needs to strengthen muscle
and nerve by physical labor. She need not be an invalid, but can do
good, earnest labor.—
Letter 231, 1905
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Recognition of Emergency Conditions—699, 700
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“Do Not Let It Appear”
436. I met the doctors and Brother-----, and talked with them
for about two hours, and I freed my soul. I told them that they had