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Healthful Living
261. And the dyspeptic—what has made him dyspeptic is taking
this course. Instead of observing regularity, he has let appetite control
him, and has eaten between meals.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:374
.
262. They closely apply their minds to books, and eat the allowance
of laboring men.... The liver becomes burdened, and unable to throw
off the impurities of the blood, and sickness is the result.—
Testimonies
for the Church 3:490
.
263. Scanty, impoverished, ill-cooked food is constantly depraving
the blood, by weakening the bloodmaking organs.—
Testimonies for
the Church 1:682
.
264. The free use of sugar in any form tends to clog the system,
and is not unfrequently a cause of disease.—
Christian Temperance
and Bible Hygiene, 57
.
265. A great amount of milk and sugar ... clog the system, irritate
the digestive organs, and affect the brain.—
Testimonies for the Church
2:370
.
Flesh Foods
266. The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat
eating.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:64
.
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267. 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
.
268. When we feed on flesh, the juices of what we eat pass into the
circulation. A feverish condition is created, because the animals are
diseased, and by partaking of their flesh, we plant the seeds of disease
in our own tissue and blood. Then, when exposed to the changes in
a malarious atmosphere, to prevailing epidemics and contagious dis-
eases, these are more sensibly felt, for the system is not in a condition
to resist disease.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
.
269. Flesh meats constitute the principal article of food upon
the tables of some families, until their blood is filled with cancerous
and scrofulous humors. Their bodies are composed of what they eat.
But when suffering and disease come upon them, it is considered an
affliction of Providence.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:563
.