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Counsels on Diet and Foods
673. Flesh meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices,
and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.
The system is too heavily taxed in disposing of this kind of food. The
mince pies and the pickles, which should never find a place in any
human stomach, will give a miserable quality of blood. And a poor
quality of food, cooked in an improper manner, and insufficient in
quantity, cannot make good blood. Flesh meats and rich food, and an
impoverished diet, will produce the same results.—
Testimonies for
the Church 2:368, 1870
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From the light God has given me, the prevalence of cancer and
tumors is largely due to gross living on dead flesh.—Extracts from
Unpublished Testimonies in Regard to Flesh Foods, 7, 1896.
674. Cancers, tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely
caused by meat eating.
Cancer, Tuberculosis, Tumors
675. The meat diet is the serious question. Shall human beings
live on the flesh of dead animals? The answer, from the light that
God has given is, No, decidedly No. Health reform institutions should
educate on this question. Physicians who claim to understand the
human organism ought not to encourage their patients to subsist on the
flesh of dead animals. They should point out the increase of disease
in the animal kingdom. The testimony of examiners is that very few
animals are free from disease, and that the practice of eating largely of
meat is contracting diseases of all kinds,—cancers, tumors, scrofula,
tuberculosis, and numbers of other like affections.—
Manuscript 3,
1897
676. Those who use flesh foods little know what they are eating.
Often if they could see the animals when living and know the quality
of the meat they eat, they would turn from it with loathing. People
are continually eating flesh that is filled with tuberculosis and can-
cerous germs. Tuberculosis, cancer, and other fatal diseases are thus
communicated.—
The Ministry of Healing, 313, 1905
677. The tables of many professed Christian women are daily
set with a variety of dishes which irritate the stomach and produce a
feverish condition of the system. Flesh meats constitute the principle
article of food upon the tables of some families, until their blood