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away, feeling clear in the sight of Heaven, and not having remorse of
conscience.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:374
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402. There is evil in overeating of even healthful food.... If we
overeat, the brain power is taxed to take care of a large quantity of
food that the system does not demand, the mind is clouded, and the
perceptions enfeebled.—
Unpublished Testimonies, April 6, 1896
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403. When the brain is constantly taxed, and there is a lack of
physical exercise, they should eat sparingly, even of plain food.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:515
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404. They closely apply their minds to books, and eat the allowance
of a laboring man. Under such habits some grow corpulent, because
the system is clogged. Others become lean, feeble, and weak, because
their vital powers are exhausted in throwing off the excess of food; the
liver becomes burdened, and unable to throw off the impurities in the
blood, and sickness is the result.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:490
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405. Overeating, even of the simplest food, benumbs the sensitive
nerves of the brain, and weakens its vitality. Overeating has a worse
effect upon the system than overworking; the energies of the soul are
more effectually prostrated by intemperate eating than by intemperate
working. The digestive organs should never be burdened with the
quantity or quality of food which it will tax the system to appropriate.
All that is taken into the stomach, above what the system can use
to convert into good blood, clogs the machinery; for it cannot be
made into either flesh or blood, and its presence burdens the liver,
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and produces a morbid condition of the system.—
Testimonies for the
Church 2:412
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406. Overeating is intemperance just as surely as is liquor
drinking.—
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896
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407. And what influence does overeating have upon the stomach?—
It becomes debilitated, the digestive organs are weakened, and disease,
with all its train of evils, is brought on as the result. If persons were
diseased before, they thus increase the difficulties upon them, and
lessen their vitality every day they live. They call their vital powers
into unnecessary action to take care of the food that they place in their
stomachs. What a terrible condition is this to be in!—
Testimonies for
the Church 2:364
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408. Eating merely to please the appetite is a transgression of
nature’s laws; often this intemperance is felt at once in the form of