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Counsels on Diet and Foods
Combination of Foods
176. Knowledge in regard to proper food combinations is of great
worth, and is to be received as wisdom from God.—
Letter 213, 1902
177. Do not have too great a variety at a meal; three or four dishes
are a plenty. At the next meal you can have a change. The cook should
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tax her inventive powers to vary the dishes she prepares for the table,
and the stomach should not be compelled to take the same kinds of
food meal after meal.—
The Review and Herald, July 29, 1884
178. There should not be many kinds at any one meal, but all meals
should not be composed of the same kinds of food without variation.
Food should be prepared with simplicity, yet with a nicety which will
invite the appetite.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:63, 1868
179. It would be much better to eat only two or three different kinds
of food at a meal than to load the stomach with many varieties.—
Letter
73a, 1896
180. Many are made sick by the indulgence of their appetite.... So
many varieties are introduced into the stomach that fermentation is the
result. This condition brings on acute disease, and death frequently
follows.—
Manuscript 86, 1897
181. The variety of food at one meal causes unpleasantness, and
destroys the good which each article, if taken alone, would do the
system. This practice causes constant suffering, and often death.—
Letter 54, 1896
182. If your work is sedentary, take exercise every day, and at each
meal eat only two or three kinds of simple food, taking no more of
these than will satisfy the demands of hunger.—
Letter 73a, 1896
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183. Disturbance is created by improper combinations of food;
fermentation sets in; the blood is contaminated and the brain confused.
The habit of overeating, or of eating too many kinds of food at one
meal, frequently causes dyspepsia. Serious injury is thus done to the
delicate digestive organs. In vain the stomach protests, and appeals to
the brain to reason from cause to effect. The excessive amount of food
eaten, or the improper combination, does its injurious work. In vain do
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disagreeable premonitions give warning. Suffering is the consequence.
Disease takes the place of health.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:257,
1902