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Counsels on Diet and Foods
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Harmful Effects of Too Great Variety of Food and Wrong Combi-
nations 141, 225, 226, 227, 264, 387, 546, 551, 722
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Combination of Many Foods in Our Restaurants—415
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Care in Food Combination for the Sick—441, 467
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E. G. White careful in her food combinations—Appendix 1:19,
23, 25
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Fruits and Vegetables
188. There should not be a great variety at any one meal, for this
encourages overeating, and causes indigestion.
It is not well to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal. If
the digestion is feeble, the use of both will often cause distress, and
inability to put forth mental effort. It is better to have the fruit at one
meal, and the vegetables at another.
The meals should be varied. The same dishes, prepared in the
same way, should not appear on the table meal after meal and day after
day. The meals are eaten with greater relish, and the system is better
nourished, when the food is varied.—
The Ministry of Healing, 299,
300, 1905
Rich Desserts and Vegetables
189. Puddings, custards, sweet cake, and vegetables, all served at
the same meal, will cause a disturbance in the stomach.—
Letter 142,
1900
190. You need to keep in your house the very best kind of help for
the work of preparing your food. In the night seasons, it seemed that
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Elder-----was taken sick, and an experienced physician said to you,
“I took notice of your diet. You eat too great a variety at one meal.
Fruit and vegetables taken at one meal produce acidity of the stomach;
then impurity of the blood results, and the mind is not clear because
the digestion is imperfect.” You should understand that every organ of
the body is to be treated with respect. In the matter of diet, you must
reason from cause to effect.—
Letter 312, 1908
Sugar and Milk
191. Far too much sugar is ordinarily used in food. Cakes, sweet
puddings, pastries, jellies, jams, are active causes of indigestion. Espe-