Health Deform
Has Adventist health reform actually degenerated into health deform? Do we still believe the instructions given to us by our prophet over 150 years ago?
Mind, Body, Spirit Connection
Physiological Connection
We are composed of what we eat. In order to make a good quality of blood, we must have the right kind of food, prepared in a right manner.
It is a
The Right Arm
As the right arm is connected with the body, so the health reform and medical missionary work is connected with the third angel’s message...
The indifference with which the health books have been treated by many is an offense to God. To separate the health work from the great body of the work, is not in his order.
Medical Missionaries
The science of cooking is not a small matter.… This art should be regarded as the most valuable of all the arts, because it is so closely connected with life. It should receive more attention; for in order to make good blood, the system requires good food. The foundation of that which keeps people in health is
Entering Wedge
When properly conducted, the health work is an entering wedge, which will make an opening for other truths to find entrance to the heart.
True Purpose of Health Message
Health Deform
Often health reform is made health deform by the unpalatable preparation of food. The lack of knowledge regarding healthful cookery must be remedied before health reform is a success.
Spiritual Focus
Dopamine Addiction
Those who permit themselves to become slaves to a morbid appetite, often
Many are addicted to the use of the filthy weed, tobacco, which perverts the appetite, and
More Victories
Although Christ gained a priceless victory in behalf of man in overcoming the temptations of Satan in the wilderness, this victory will not benefit man
Opportunities for Improvement
Flesh Foods
Those who subsist largely upon flesh-meats inflame the stomach thereby, the blood becomes torpid and impure, head-aches and indispositions follow. The system is filled with humors; fevers, scrofula and cancers are the consequences. Especially is this true of those who eat swine’s flesh. Yet so great is the tendency to ignore these evils, that few can be brought to realize the true effects of this sort of diet upon the human system.
When they have to travel far, they become surfeited and exhausted, and in that condition are killed for market. Their blood is highly inflamed, and those who eat of their meat eat poison.
Flesh was never the best food; but its use is now doubly objectionable, since disease in animals is so rapidly increasing.
And the more the appetite is indulged, the more will be its clamors for gratification. This faintness is generally the result of meat-eating, and eating frequently, and too much. The stomach becomes weary by being kept constantly at work, disposing of food not the most healthful. Having no time for rest, the digestive organs become enfeebled, hence the sense of “goneness,” and desire for frequent eating.
The stimulating diet and drink of this day are not conducive to the best state of health. Tea, coffee, and tobacco are all stimulating, and contain poisons. They are not only unnecessary, but harmful, and should be discarded if we would add to knowledge, temperance
Persons who have accustomed themselves to a rich, highly stimulating diet have an unnatural taste, and they cannot at once relish food that is plain and simple. It will take time for the taste to become natural and for the stomach to recover from the abuse it has suffered.
Often food that can be used with benefit by those engaged in hard physical labor is unsuitable for persons of sedentary pursuits or intense mental application.
In order to know what are the best foods, we must study God’s original plan for man’s diet. He who created man and who understands his needs appointed Adam his food.… Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables constitute the diet chosen for us by our Creator.
Fruits, grains, and vegetables, prepared in a simple way, free from spice and grease of all kinds, make, with milk or cream, the most healthful diet. They impart nourishment to the body and give a power of endurance and a vigor of intellect that are not produced by a stimulating diet.
The table is not a place where rebellion should be cultivated in the children by some unreasonable course pursued by the parents. The whole family should eat with gladness
Does It Still Matter
First Sin
The first great evil was intemperance in eating and drinking. Men and women have made themselves slaves to appetite.
Jesus Temptations
With Christ, as with the holy pair in Eden, appetite was the ground of the first great temptation. Just where the ruin began, the work of our redemption must begin. As by the indulgence of appetite Adam fell, so by the denial of appetite Christ must overcome.
