Fats
277
610. I cannot see the need of butter where there is abundance of
fruit and of sterilized cream.—[
Letter 331, 1904
]
Medical Ministry,
269
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For context see 588
]
611. We place no butter upon our table. Our vegetables are gener-
ally cooked with milk or cream and made very palatable.... We think
a moderate amount of milk from a healthy cow not objectionable.—
Letter 5, 1870
[358]
[
Milk and cream used in the White home—Appendix 1:4, 13, 14,
16, 22
]
[
Use of Milk and Cream in the Preparation of Food—517, 518,
522
]
[
Recommended for Camp Meeting Diet—491
]
The Strictest Diet Not Best
612. We are to be brought into connection with the masses. Should
health reform be taught them in its most extreme form, harm would
be done. We ask them to leave off eating meat and drinking tea and
coffee. That is well. But some say that milk also should be given up.
This is a subject that needs to be carefully handled. There are poor
families whose diet consists of bread and milk, and, if they can get it,
a little fruit. All flesh food should be discarded, but vegetables should
be made palatable with a little milk or cream or something equivalent.
The poor say, when health reform is presented to them, “What shall
we eat? We cannot afford to buy the nut foods.” As I preach the gospel
to the poor, I am instructed to tell them to eat that food which is most
nourishing. I cannot say to them, “You must not eat eggs or milk
or cream. You must use no butter in the preparation of food.” The
gospel must be preached to the poor, and the time has not yet come to
prescribe the strictest diet.
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the
articles of diet we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs, but
my message is that you must not bring yourself to a time of trouble
beforehand, and thus afflict yourself with death. Wait till the Lord
prepares the way before you....
I assure you that your ideas in regard to diet for the sick are not
advisable. The change is too great. While I would discard flesh meat