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Counsels on Diet and Foods
Conscientious physicians should be prepared to enlighten those
who are ignorant, and should with wisdom make out their prescrip-
tions, prohibiting those things in their diet which they know to be
erroneous. They should plainly state the things which they regard as
detrimental to the laws of health, and leave these suffering ones to
work conscientiously to do those things for themselves which they can
do, and thus place themselves in right relation to the laws of life and
health.—
Manuscript 22, 1887
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Duty of Physicians and Helpers to Educate Their Own Tastes—
720
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The Physician’s Responsibility to Educate by Pen and Voice in
Healthful Cookery—382
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Patients at Health Retreat to Be Educated away from a Flesh
Diet—720
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A Solemn Charge
775. When a physician sees that a patient is suffering from an
ailment caused by improper eating and drinking, yet neglects to tell
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him of this, and to point out the need of reform, he is doing a fellow
being an injury. Drunkards, maniacs, those who are given over to
licentiousness,—all appeal to the physician to declare clearly and
distinctly that suffering is the result of sin. We have received great
light on health reform. Why, then, are we not more decidedly in earnest
in striving to counteract the causes that produce disease? Seeing the
continual conflict with pain, laboring constantly to alleviate suffering,
how can our physicians hold their peace? Can they refrain from lifting
the voice in warning? Are they benevolent and merciful if they do not
teach strict temperance as a remedy for disease?—
Testimonies for the
Church 7:74, 75, 1902
Moral Courage Required by Diet Reformers
776. A great amount of good can be done by enlightening all to
whom we have access, as to the best means, not only of curing the sick,
but of preventing disease and suffering. The physician who endeavors
to enlighten his patients as to the nature and causes of their maladies
and to teach them how to avoid disease, may have uphill work; but if he
is a conscientious reformer, he will talk plainly of the ruinous effects