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of health, your life will be cut short suddenly.—
Testimonies for the
Church 4:501, 502
.
758. 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
.
759. While fever is raging, food may irritate and excite the blood;
but as soon as the strength of the fever is broken, nourishment should
be given in a careful, judicious manner.—
Testimonies for the Church
2:384
.
Flesh Meats
760. Flesh meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices,
and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of
blood. The system is too heavily taxed in disposing of this kind of
food.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:368
.
761. The eating of flesh meats has made a poor quality of blood
and flesh. Your systems are in a state of inflammation, prepared to take
on disease. You are liable to acute attacks of disease, and to sudden
death, because you do not possess the strength of constitution to rally
and resist disease.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:61
.
762. When we feed on flesh, the juices of what we eat pass into the
circulation....Thus a feverish condition is created, because the animals
are diseased, and ... we plant the seeds of disease in our own tissue
and blood.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
.
Pork
763. Subsisting mostly on highly seasoned animal food produces
a feverish state of the system, especially if pork is used freely. The
blood becomes impure, the circulation is not equalized.—
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764. Pork, although one of the most common articles of diet, is one
of the most injurious. God did not prohibit the Hebrews from eating
swine’s flesh merely to show his authority, but because it was not a
proper article of food for man. It would fill the system with scrofula,
and especially in that warm climate produce leprosy and disease of
various kinds.... Swine’s flesh, above all other flesh meats, produces
a bad state of the blood.... It is impossible for the flesh of any living