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Counsels on Diet and Foods
have been supplied in abundance. As visitors ask questions in regard
to the absence of meat, the reason is plainly stated, that flesh is not the
most healthful food.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:112, 1900
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Sale of Candies, Ice Cream, and Other Knickknacks on the
Campground—529, 530
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In Our Sanitariums
766. The light given me was that a sanitarium should be estab-
lished, and that in it drug medication should be discarded, and simple,
rational methods of treatment employed for the healing of disease. In
this institution people were to be taught how to dress, breathe, and eat
properly,—how to prevent sickness by proper habits of living.—
Letter
79, 1905
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767. Our sanitariums are to be the means of enlightening those
who come to them for treatment. The patients are to be shown how
they can live upon a diet of grains, fruits, nuts, and other products
of the soil. I have been instructed that lectures should be regularly
given in our sanitariums on health topics. People are to be taught to
discard those articles of food that weaken the health and strength of
the beings for whom Christ gave His life. The injurious effects of tea
and coffee are to be shown. The patients are to be taught how they can
dispense with those articles of diet that injure the digestive organs....
Let the patients be shown the necessity of practicing the principles of
health reform, if they would regain their health. Let the sick be shown
how to get well by being temperate in eating and by taking regular
exercise in the open air.... By the work of our sanitariums, suffering
is to be relieved and health restored. People are to be taught how, by
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carefulness in eating and drinking, they may keep well.... Abstinence
from flesh meat will benefit those who abstain. The diet question is
a subject of living interest.... Our sanitariums are established for a
special purpose, to teach people that we do not live to eat, but that we
eat to live.—
Letter 233, 1905
Educate Patients in Home Nursing
768. Keep the patients out of doors as much as possible, and give
them cheering, happy talks in the parlor, with simple reading and Bible