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sick. The table of a sanitarium cannot be set exactly the same as the
table of a restaurant. It makes a great difference whether the food is to
be placed before healthy men, who can digest almost anything in the
line of food, or before invalids.
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There is danger of providing too limited a diet for people who have
come directly from a diet so abundant as to encourage gluttony. The
fare should be liberal. But at the same time, it should be simple. I
know that food can be prepared simply, and yet be so palatable as to
be enjoyed even by those who have been accustomed to a richer fare.
Let fruit be placed on the table in abundance. I am glad that you
are able to provide for the sanitarium table, fruit fresh from your own
orchards. This is indeed a great advantage.—
Letter 171, 1903
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Not Every One Can Use Vegetables—516
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The Education of the Sanitarium Table
442. In the preparation of the food, the golden rays of light are to
be kept shining, teaching those who sit at the table how to live. This
education is also to be given to those who visit the Health Retreat, that
they may carry from it reformatory principles.—
Letter 71, 1896
443. The preparation of food for sanitarium patients needs close
and careful attention. Some of the patients come from homes in which
the tables are daily loaded with rich food, and every effort should be
made to set before them food that is both appetizing and wholesome.—
Letter 73, 1905
To Recommend Health Reform
The Lord would have the institution with which you are connected
one of the most satisfying and enjoyable places in the world. I want
you to show special care in providing for the patients a diet that will not
endanger health, and at the same time will recommend our principles
of health reform. This can be done, and being done, it will make
a favorable impression on the minds of the patients. It will be an
education to them, showing them the advantage of hygienic living
above their own way of living. And when they leave the institution,
they will carry with them a report that will influence others to go there.
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