Their Use a Cause of Faintness VC

561. There is a class who profess to believe the truth, who do not use tobacco, snuff, tea, or coffee, yet they are guilty of gratifying the appetite in a different manner. They crave highly seasoned meats, with rich gravies, and their appetite has become so perverted that they cannot be satisfied with even meat, unless prepared in a manner most injurious. The stomach is fevered, the digestive organs are taxed, and yet the stomach labors hard to dispose of the load forced upon it. After the stomach has performed its task, it becomes exhausted, which causes faintness. Here many are deceived, and think that it is the want of food which produces such feelings, and without giving the stomach time to rest, they take more food, which for the time removes the faintness. And the more the appetite is indulged, the more will be its clamors for gratification.—Spiritual Gifts 4a:129, 1864 (CD 341.1) MC VC

562. 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. The mother should study to set a simple yet nutritious diet before her family.—[Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 47] Counsels on Health, 114, 1890 (CD 341.2) MC VC

563. 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 not 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.—Spiritual Gifts 4a:130, 1864 (CD 341.3) MC VC

564. With all the precious light that has continually been given to us in the health publications, we cannot afford to live careless, heedless lives, eating and drinking as we please, and indulging in the use of stimulants, narcotics, and condiments. Let us take into consideration the fact that we have souls to save or to lose, and that it is of vital consequence how we relate ourselves to the question of temperance. It is of great importance that individually we act well our part, and have an intelligent understanding of what we should eat and drink, and how we should live to preserve health. All are being proved to see whether we will accept the principles of health reform or follow a course of self-indulgence.—Manuscript 33, 1909 (CD 341.4) MC VC

[Temperance Reformers Should Awaken to Evils from Use of Condiments—747]
[Though Mince Pies, Spices, etc., Are Discarded, the Food Should Be Prepared with Care—389]
[Time Wasted Preparing Foods Seasoned with Spices, Which Ruin Health, Sour the Temper, and Becloud the Reason—234]
[Spices and Condiments Allowed to Children—348, 351, 354, 360]
[Highly Seasoned Food Encourages Overeating and Produces Feverish Conditions—351]
[Free Use of Pickles and Condiments by a Nervous, Irritable Child—574]
[Cannot Be Converted into Good Blood—576]
[Refusal of Dainty Dishes and Rich Condiments, etc., Proves Workers to Be Practical Health Reformers—227]
[Animal Passions Excited by Spiced Foods—348]
[Foods Taken to Camp Meeting Should Be Free from All Spices and Grease—124]
[Spices not used in the White home-Appendix 1:4]
[Spiced Foods and Condiments Excite Nerves and Enfeeble Intellect—356]
[The Blessing of a Diet Free from Spices—119]
[Simple Foods, without Spices, Are Best—487]
[Those Craving Condiments to Be Enlightened—779] (CD 342) MC VC

565. The use of soda or baking powder in breadmaking is harmful and unnecessary. Soda causes inflammation of the stomach, and often poisons the entire system. Many housewives think that they cannot make good bread without soda, but this is an error. If they would take the trouble to learn better methods, their bread would be more wholesome, and, to a natural taste, it would be more palatable.—The Ministry of Healing, 300, 301, 1905 (CD 342.1) MC VC