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Healthful Living
Bathing
700. Bathing helps the bowels, stomach, and liver, giving energy
and new life to each. It also promotes digestion, and instead of the
system’s being weakened, it is strengthened.—
Testimonies for the
Church 3:70, 71
.
Mental Influence
701. The less the attention is called to the stomach after a meal,
the better. If you are in constant fear that your food will hurt you, it
most assuredly will. Forget self, and think of something cheerful.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:530
.
702. At meal-time cast off all care and taxing thought. Do not be
hurried, but eat slowly and with cheerfulness, your heart filled with
gratitude to God for all his blessings.—
Gospel Workers, 174
.
703. You eat too much, and then you are sorry, and so you keep
thinking upon what you eat and drink. Just eat that which is for the
best, and go right away, feeling clear in the sight of Heaven and not
having remorse of conscience.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:374
.
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