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Healthful Living
If your time to eat is limited, do not bolt your food, but eat less, and
eat slowly.—
The Review and Herald, July 29, 1884
.
397. Do not be hurried, but eat slowly and with cheerfulness,
your heart filled with gratitude to God for all his blessings.—
Gospel
Workers, 174
.
398. Eat slowly, and allow the saliva to mingle with the food. The
more liquid there is taken into the stomach with the meals, the more
difficult it is for the food to digest.... The benefit you derive from your
food does not depend so much on the quantity eaten, as on its thorough
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digestion, nor the gratification of the taste so much on the amount of
food swallowed as on the length of time it remains in the mouth.—
The
Review and Herald, July 29, 1884
.
Overeating
399. If more food is eaten than can be digested and appropriated,
a decaying mass accumulates in the stomach, causing an offensive
breath, and a bad taste in the mouth. The vital powers are exhausted
in an effort to throw off the excess, and the brain is robbed of nerve
force.—
Special Testimonies On Education, 32
.
400. Nearly all the members of the human family eat more than
the system requires.... Even so-called health reform needs reforming
on this point.... If more food, even of a simple quality, is placed in
the stomach than the living machinery requires, this surplus becomes
a burden, the system makes a desperate effort to dispose of it, and
this extra work causes a weakly feeling. Some who are continually
overeating call this all-gone feeling hunger, but it is caused by the
overworked condition of the abused digestive organs.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, August 30, 1896
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401. Some of you feel as though you would like to have somebody
tell you how much to eat. This is not the way it should be. We are to
act from a moral and religious standpoint.. We are to be temperate
in all things, because an incorruptible crown, a heavenly treasure, is
before us. And now I wish to say to my brethren and sisters, I would
have moral courage to take my position and govern myself. You eat
too much, and then you are sorry, and so you keep thinking upon what
you eat and drink. Just eat that which is for the best, and go right
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