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Rich Foods

I would recommend letting them go without for at least three days until they are hungry enough to enjoy good wholesome food. I would risk their starving. I have never placed on my table things which I did not allow my children to partake of. I would place before them just what I myself would eat. The children would eat of this food and never think of asking for things not on the table. We should not indulge the appetite of our children by placing before them these rich foods.--Manuscript, 3, 1888. {Te 158.2}

The Gospel of Christ is an educator. It teaches us not to pamper and indulge self and waste the means that should be employed to extend the triumphs of the cross of Christ. There are ministers now dead, whose lives would have been prolonged had they followed the example of Paul in uniting physical labour with the ministry of the Word. Many have yielded to the temptation to indulge appetite. When they should have eaten abstemiously, they were tempted to eat largely of rich foods, though they knew that what they were eating could not be assimilated by the system, but would only be an extra burden to their digestive organs. The unnecessary food taken into the system poisoned the blood, and produced evils that resulted in disease. {AUCR, December 1, 1899 par. 9}

The richness of food and complicated mixtures of food are health destroying.
     [RICH FOODS AND VARIETY OF DISHES NOT BEST FOR CAMP MEETING DIET--74]
     [COMBINATION OF SPICED MEAT, RICH CAKES AND PIES--673]
     [SEE SECTION XIX, "DESSERTS"] {CD 113.4}

We are built up from that which we eat. Shall we strengthen the animal passions by eating animal food? In the place of educating the taste to love this gross diet, it is high time that we were educating ourselves to subsist upon fruits, grains, and vegetables. . . . A variety of simple dishes, perfectly healthful and nourishing, may be provided, aside from meat. Hearty men must have plenty of vegetables, fruits, and grains.
     [FOR THE HELPERS' TABLE--444, 651]
     [TO TAKE THE PLACE OF FLESH MEAT--492, 649, 765, 795]
     [TO TAKE THE PLACE OF RICH FOODS--312]
     [NOT RELISHED BY THOSE ACCUSTOMED TO TRANSGRESSING NATURE'S LAWS--204, 563]
     [FLESH DIET VEGETABLES SECONDHAND--482] Letter 3, 1884 {CD 322.4}

If our appetites clamor for the flesh of dead animals, it is a necessity to fast and pray for the Lord to give His grace to deny fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
[FASTING BENEFICIAL IN CHANGING FROM A DIET OF FLESH MEAT AND RICH FOODS--312] Letter 73, 1896 {CD 400.3}

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