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Healthful Living
becomes depressed and gloomy, while the whole system is enervated.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:702, 703
.
A Disturbed Mind
192. Doubt, perplexity, and excessive grief often sap the vital
forces and induce nervous diseases of a most debilitating and distress-
ing character.—
The Review and Herald, October 16, 1883
.
Errors in Diet
193. Unhealthful habits of eating are injuring thousands and tens
of thousands. Food should be thoroughly cooked, neatly prepared, and
appetizing.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
.
Cold Food
194. I do not approve of eating much cold food, for the reason that
the vitality must be drawn from the system to warm the food until it
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becomes of the same temperature as the stomach, before the work of
digestion can be carried on.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:603
.
195. They eat improperly, and this calls their nervous energies to
the stomach, and they have no vitality to expend in other directions.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:365
.
Children
196. Children are permitted to indulge their tastes freely, to eat
at all hours.... The digestive organs, like a mill which is continually
kept running, become enfeebled, vital force is called from the brain
to aid the stomach in its overwork, and thus the mental powers are
weakened. The unnatural stimulation and wear of the vital forces
make the children nervous, impatient of restraint, self-willed, and
irritable.—
The Health Reformer, May 1, 1877
.
Students
197. They closely apply their minds to books, and eat the allowance
of the laboring man. Under such habits some grow corpulent, because
the system is clogged. Others become lean, feeble, and weak, because