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270. Rich and complicated mixtures of food are health destroying.
Highly seasoned meats and rich pastry are wearing out the digestive
organs of children.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
.
271. Simple grains, fruits, and vegetables have all the nutrient
properties necessary to make good blood. This a flesh diet cannot
do.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
.
Stimulants
272. It is these hurtful stimulants that are surely undermining the
constitution and preparing the system for acute diseases, by impairing
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nature’s fine machinery, and battering down her fortifications erected
against disease and premature decay.—
Testimonies for the Church
1:548
.
273. A tendency to disease of various kinds, as dropsy, liver
complaint, trembling nerves, and a determination of the blood to the
head, results from a habitual use of sour cider. By its use, many bring
upon themselves permanent disease. Some die of consumption, or fall
under the power of apoplexy from this cause alone. Some suffer from
dyspepsia. Every vital function refuses to act, and the physicians tell
them that they have liver complaint.—
The Review and Herald, March
25, 1884
.
Improper Clothing
274. The fashionable style of woman’s dress is one of the greatest
causes of all these terrible diseases.—
The Health Reformer, April 1,
1872
.
275. More die as the result of following fashion than from all other
causes.—
The Health Reformer, November 1, 1870
.
276. Women especially are the victims of various maladies which
might be lessened, if not entirely prevented, by right habits of life.
Half their sufferings may be attributed to their manner of dress, and
the insane desire to conform to the fashions of the world.—
The Health
Reformer, February 1, 1877
.
277. In order to follow the fashions, mothers dress their children
with limbs nearly naked; and 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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