Diet
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Spices
422. Spices at first irritate the tender coating of the stomach, but
finally destroy the natural sensitiveness of this delicate membrane. The
blood becomes fevered, the animal propensities are aroused, while the
moral and intellectual powers are weakened, and become servants to
the baser passions.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 47
.
423. Persons who have indulged their appetite to eat freely of meat,
highly seasoned gravies, and various kinds of rich cakes and preserves,
cannot immediately relish a plain, wholesome, nutritious diet. Their
taste is so perverted they have no appetite for a wholesome diet of
fruits, plain bread, and vegetables. They need not expect to relish at
first food so different from that in which they have been indulging.
If they cannot at first enjoy plain food, they should fast until they
can. That fast will prove to them of greater benefit than medicine,
for the abused stomach will find the rest which it has long needed,
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and real hunger can be satisfied with a plain diet. It will take time
for the taste to recover from the abuses it has received, and to gain its
natural tone. But perseverance in a self-denying course of eating and
drinking will soon make plain, wholesome food palatable, and it will
be eaten with greater satisfaction than the epicure enjoys over his rich
dainties.—
Spiritual Gifts Volume 4a, 130
.
Cheese
424. The effect of cheese is deleterious.—
Christian Temperance
and Bible Hygiene, 47
.
425. Cheese should never be introduced into the stomach.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:68
.
Grease, fats, etc
426. Meat is served reeking with fat, because it suits the perverted
taste. Both the blood and the fat of animals is consumed as a luxury.
But the Lord has given special directions that these should not be
eaten. Why?—Because their use would make a diseased current of
blood in the human system. Disregard of the Lord’s special direc-
tions has brought many diseases upon human beings.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, March, 1896
.