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Healthful Living
Improper Clothing
773. Parents who dress their children with their extremities naked,
or nearly so, are sacrificing the life and health of their children to
fashion. If these parts are not so warm as the body, the circulation is
not equalized.... The blood is driven to the head, causing headache or
nosebleed; or there is a sense of fulness about the chest; producing
cough or palpitation of the heart, on account of too much blood in
that locality; or the stomach has too much blood, causing indigestion...
The blood is chilled back from its natural course, and thrown upon the
internal organs, breaking up the circulation and producing disease.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:531
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774. Look at the tight-fitting waists of the dresses of these children.
It is impossible for their lungs to have full action. The heart and liver
cannot do their work, thus compressed.....Look at their limbs, unclad
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except by the slight covering of cotton stockings .... The air chills the
limbs, the life current is driven back from its natural course, and the
limbs are robbed of their proportion of blood. The blood, which should
be induced to the extremities by their being properly clad, is thrown
back upon the internal organs. There is too much blood in the head.
The lungs are congested or the liver is burdened; by interrupting the
circulation of the blood, the entire system is deranged.—
The Health
Reformer, November 1, 1870
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775. The artificial hair and pads covering the base of the brain heat
and excite the spinal nerves centering in the brain. The head should
ever be kept cool. The heat caused by these artificial coverings induces
the blood to the brain. The action of the blood upon the lower or animal
organs of the brain, causes unnatural activity, tends to recklessness in
morals, and the mind and heart are in danger of being corrupted.—
The
Health Reformer, October 1, 1871
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Lack of Cleanliness
776. The impurities of the body, if not allowed to escape, are taken
back into the blood, and forced upon the internal organs.—
How to
Live, 60
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