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educate your stomach to bear a more solid diet.—
Testimonies for the
Church 3:74
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413. Dry food that requires mastication is far preferable to por-
ridges. The health food preparations are a blessing in this respect....
For those who can use them, good vegetables, prepared in a healthful
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manner, are better than soft mushes and porridge. Fruits, used with
thoroughly cooked bread two or three days old, which is more health-
ful than fresh bread, slowly and thoroughly masticated, will furnish
all that the system requires.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11,
1897
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Very Hot Foods
414. Very hot food ought not to be taken into the stomach. Soups,
puddings, and other articles of the kind, are often eaten too hot, and
as a consequence the stomach is debilitated. Let them become partly
cooled before they are eaten.—
The Review and Herald, July 29, 1884
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Cold Food
415. 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
becomes of the same temperature as the stomach before the work of
digestion can be carried on.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:603
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Rich Diet
416. 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Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
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417. At too many tables, when the stomach has received all that it
requires to carry on the work of nourishing the system, another course,
consisting of pies, puddings, and highly flavored sauces, is placed
upon the table.... Many, though they have already eaten enough, will
overstep the bounds, and eat the tempting dessert, which, however,
proves anything but good to them.... If the extras which are provided
for dessert were dispensed with altogether, it would be a blessing.—
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896
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418. Many understand how to make different kinds of cakes, but
cake is not the best food to be placed upon the table. Sweet cakes,