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Counsels on Diet and Foods
excited, anxious, or in a hurry, would do well not to eat until they have
found rest or relief; for the vital powers, already severely taxed, cannot
supply the necessary digestive fluids.—[
Christian Temperance and
Bible Hygiene, 51, 52
]
Counsels on Health, 120, 1890
169. Food should be eaten slowly, and should be thoroughly masti-
cated. This is necessary, in order that the saliva may be properly mixed
with the food, and the digestive fluids be called into action.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 305, 1905
A Lesson to Be Repeated
170. If we would work for the restoration of health, it is necessary
to restrain the appetite, to eat slowly, and only a limited variety at one
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meal. This instruction needs to be repeated frequently. It is not in
harmony with the principles of health reform to have so many different
dishes at one meal.—
Letter 27, 1905
171. Great care should be taken when the change is made from a
flesh meat to a vegetarian diet to supply the table with wisely prepared,
well-cooked articles of food. So much porridge eating is a mistake.
The dry food that requires mastication is far preferable. The health
food preparations are a blessing in this respect. Good brown bread and
rolls, prepared in a simple manner yet with painstaking effort, will be
healthful. Bread should never have the slightest taint of sourness. It
should be cooked until it is most thoroughly done. Thus all softness
and stickiness will be avoided.
For those who can use them, good vegetables, prepared in a health-
ful manner, are better than soft mushes or porridge. Fruits used with
thoroughly cooked bread two or three days old will be more health-
ful than fresh bread. This, with slow and thorough mastication, will
furnish all that the system requires.—
Manuscript 3, 1897
172. To make rolls, use soft water and milk, or a little cream;
make a stiff dough, and knead it as for crackers. Bake on the grate
of the oven. These are sweet and delicious. They require thorough
mastication, which is a benefit both to the teeth and to the stomach.
They make good blood, and impart strength.—
The Review and Herald,
May 8, 1883