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into the stomach. The table must be loaded down with variety or the
depraved appetite cannot be satisfied. In the morning, these slaves to
appetite often have impure breath and a furred tongue. They do not
enjoy health, and wonder why they suffer with pains, headaches, and
various ills. The cause has brought the sure result.—
How to Live, 57
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683. If we would preserve the best health, we should avoid eating
vegetables and fruit at the same meal. If the stomach is feeble, there
will be distress, the brain will be confused, and unable to put forth
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mental effort. Have fruit at one meal and vegetables at the next.—
The
Youth’s Instructor, May 31, 1894
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684. I frequently sit down to the tables of the brethren and sisters
and see that they use a great amount of milk and sugar. These clog the
system, irritate the digestive organs, and affect the brain. Anything
that hinders the active motion of the living machinery, affects the brain
very directly. And from the light given me, sugar, when largely used,
is more injurious than meat.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:370
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Overeating
685. Nearly all the members of the human family eat more than
the system requires. This excess decays, and becomes a putrid mass....
If more food, even of a simple quality, is placed in the stomach than
the living machinery requires, this surplus becomes a burden. The
system makes desperate efforts to dispose of it, and this extra work
causes a tired feeling. Some who are continually eating call this “all
gone” feeling hunger, but it is caused by the overworked condition of
the abused digestive organs.—
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30,
1896
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686. They (ministers, students, etc.) closely apply their minds to
books, and eat the allowance of a laboring man. Under such habits,
some grow corpulent, because the system is clogged. Others become
lean, feeble, and weak, because their vital powers are exhausted in
throwing off the excess of food; the liver becomes burdened, and
unable to throw off the impurities in the blood, and sickness is the
result.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:490
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687. Often this intemperance is felt at once in the form of headache
and indigestion and colic. A load has been placed upon the stomach
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that it cannot care for, and a feeling of oppression comes. The head