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with rich gravies, and their appetite has become so perverted that they
cannot be satisfied with even meat, unless prepared in a manner most
injurious. The stomach is fevered, the digestive organs are taxed,
and yet the stomach labors hard to dispose of the load forced upon
it. After the stomach has performed its task, it becomes exhausted,
which causes faintness. Here many are deceived, and think that it is
the want of food which produces such feelings, and without giving the
stomach time to rest, they take more food, which for the time removes
the faintness. And the more the appetite is indulged, the more will be
its clamors for gratification.—
Spiritual Gifts 4a:129, 1864
562. Spices at first irritate the tender coating of the stomach, but
finally destroy the natural sensitiveness of this delicate membrane. The
blood becomes fevered, the animal propensities are aroused, while
the moral and intellectual powers are weakened, and become servants
to the baser passions. The mother should study to set a simple yet
nutritious diet before her family.—[
Christian Temperance and Bible
Hygiene, 47
]
Counsels on Health, 114, 1890
563. Persons who have indulged their appetite to eat freely of
meat, highly seasoned gravies, and various kinds of rich cakes and
preserves, cannot immediately relish a plain, wholesome, nutritious
diet. Their taste is so perverted they have not appetite for a wholesome
diet of fruits, plain bread, and vegetables. They need not expect to
relish at first food so different from that in which they have been
indulging.—
Spiritual Gifts 4a:130, 1864
564. With all the precious light that has continually been given to
us in the health publications, we cannot afford to live careless, heedless
lives, eating and drinking as we please, and indulging in the use of
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stimulants, narcotics, and condiments. Let us take into consideration
the fact that we have souls to save or to lose, and that it is of vital
consequence how we relate ourselves to the question of temperance. It
is of great importance that individually we act well our part, and have
an intelligent understanding of what we should eat and drink, and how
we should live to preserve health. All are being proved to see whether
we will accept the principles of health reform or follow a course of
self-indulgence.—
Manuscript 33, 1909
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Condiments—747
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