The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-05-31
Diet.

food which shortens life; and that
there will be a reformation (uow
due) upon the use of swine's flesh
From "Christian Temperance
and Bible HYGIENE" by Mrs. f. g.
White a noted evangelist and
temperance worker, / quote, "God
has furnished man with abundant
means for qualification of an un-
perverted appetite, He has spread
before him the products of the
earth, bountiful variety of food
that is palstab to the taste and
nutritious to the system. or these
our benevolent heavenly Father
says we may freely eat. Fruits,
grains, and vegetables, prepared in
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 power of endour-
ance and vigor of intellect that
are not produced by stimulating
diet.
"Those who use flesh. meats free
ly, do not always have an uncloud-
ed brain and an active intellect,
because the use of the flesh of ami
mails tends to cause grossness of
body, and to benumb the finer sem
sibilities of the mind. The liabil-
ity to disease is increased by flesh
eating. We do not hesitate to say
that meat is not essential to the
maintenance of health and
strength.
"Those who subsist largely upon
meat, cannot avoid sometimes eat
ing flesh which is more or less dis
eased. In many cases the process
of fitting animals for market pro.
duces an unhealthy condition, shut
away from light and pure air, in,
haling the atmosphere of filthy
stables, the entire body soon be-
comes contaminated with foul
matter; and when such flesh is re.
ceived into the human body, it cor
rupts the blood, and disease is pro-
duced. If the person already has
impure blood, this unhealthful con-
dition will be greatly aggravated.
But few can be made to believe
that it is the meat they have eaten
which has poisoned their blood and
caused their suffering. Many die
of diseases wholly due to meat-eat-
ing, when the real cause is scarce
ly suspected by themselves or
others. Some do not Immediately
feel its effects, but this is no evil
dence that it does not hurt them.
1t may be doing its work surely
upon the system, yet for the time
being the victim may realize Meth
ing it.
"Pork, although one of the most
common articles of diet, is one of
the most injurious. God did not
prohibit the Hebrews from eating
swine's flesh merely to show his
authority, but because it is not
proper article of food for man.
God never created the swine to
be eaten under any circumstances
1t is impossible for the flesh of any
living creature to be healthful
when filth is its natural element,
and when it feeds upon every de.
testable thing"
In discourse given oy DR.. j. III.
Kellog, Superintendent of the
Battle Creek Sanitarium Feb. 2l,
1899 he says: awe are coming
down to a time of absolute confus-
ion and destruction. Men are get
ting more and more subject to
disease all the time. There are
fewer o!d people than formerly.
The last fifty years the bottom
seems to have dropped out of the
constitution of the human race.
The Lord MADE man the toughest
animal on the face of the earth.
Even to-day you take man who
Is In good training, and there is
not another beast that can compete
with him. A man can travel
farther In six days than horse.
A well-trained man can tire out
two or three horses in the course of
\ week. Man, however, has great
ly deteriorated; hut no other ami
NAL would stand the abuse that he
endures, even now.
"How long could horse or
cow endure such treatment as hui
man beings give themselves A
man would not dare feed his. horse
what he himself eats, or his COW
either. He would not even feed
his dog the same. A woman eats
and feeds things to her child, that