Teaching Health Principles
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how to prepare food in a simple, yet appetizing way. They are to be
shown that a nourishing diet can be provided without the use of flesh
foods....
Much tact and discretion should be employed in preparing nour-
ishing food to take the place of that which has formerly constituted the
diet of those who are learning to be health reformers. Faith in God,
earnestness of purpose, and a willingness to help one another, will be
required. A diet lacking in the proper elements of nutrition, brings
reproach upon the cause of health reform. We are mortal, and must
supply ourselves with food that will give proper nourishment to the
body.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:161, 1909
Cooking Classes in All Our Schools
817. In all our schools there should be those who are fitted to
teach cooking. Classes for instruction in this subject should be held.
Those who are receiving a training for service suffer a great loss when
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they do not gain a knowledge of how to prepare food so that it is both
wholesome and palatable.
The science of cooking is not a small matter. The skillful prepa-
ration of food is one of the most essential arts. It should be regarded
as among the most valuable of all the arts, because it is so closely
connected with the life. Both physical and mental strength depend to
a great degree upon the food we eat; therefore the one who prepares
the food occupies an important and elevated position.
Both young men and young women should be taught how to cook
economically, and to dispense with everything in the line of flesh food.
Let no encouragement be given to the preparation of dishes which
are composed in any degree of flesh food; for this is pointing to the
darkness and ignorance of Egypt, rather than to the purity of health
reform.
Women especially should learn how to cook. What part of the
education of a girl is so important as this? Whatever may be her
circumstances in life, here is knowledge that she may put to practical
use. It is a branch of education which has a most direct influence upon
health and happiness. There is practical religion in a loaf of good
bread.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 312, 313, 1913