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Chap.
19 - Desserts
Part I--Sugar
MS
93, 1901
525. Sugar is not good for the stomach.
It causes fermentation, and this clouds the brain and brings peevishness into
the disposition. {CD 327.1}
(1905)
M.H. 302
526. Far too much sugar is ordinarily
used in food. Cakes, sweet puddings, pastries, jellies, jams, are active
causes of indigestion. Especially harmful are the custards and puddings in
which milk, eggs, and sugar are the chief
ingredients. The free use of milk and sugar taken together should be
avoided.
[SEE MILK AND SUGAR--533, 536]
[USE ONLY A LITTLE IN FRUIT
CANNING--476]
[A LITTLE SUGAR PERMISSIBLE--550] {CD
327.2}
(1870) 2T 369, 370 527.
Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the working of the living machine. {CD
327.3}
There was one case in Montcalm County,
Michigan, to which I will refer. The individual was a noble man. He stood six
feet, and was of fine appearance. I was called to visit him in his sickness.
I had previously conversed with him in regard to his manner of living.
"I do not like the looks of your eyes," said I. He was eating large
quantities of sugar. I asked him why he did this. He said that he had left
off meat, and did not know what would supply its place as well as sugar. His
food did not satisfy him, simply because his wife did not know how to cook.
{CD 327.4}
Some of you send your daughters, who
have nearly grown to womanhood, to school to learn the sciences before they
know how to cook, when this should be made of the first importance. Here was
a woman who did not know how to cook; she had not learned how to prepare
healthful food. The wife and mother was deficient in this important branch of
education; and as the result, poorly cooked food not being
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sufficient
to sustain the demands of the system, sugar was eaten immoderately, which
brought on a diseased condition of the entire system. This man's life was
sacrificed unnecessarily to bad cooking. {CD 327.5}
When I went to see the sick man, I tired
to tell them as well as I could how to manage, and soon he began slowly to
improve. But he imprudently exercised his strength when not able, ate a small
amount not of the right quality, and was taken down again. This time there
was no help for him. His system appeared to be a living mass of corruption.
He died a victim to poor cooking. He tried to make sugar supply the place of
good cooking, and it only made matters worse. {CD 328.1}
I frequently sit down to the tables of
the brethren and sisters, and see that they use a great amount of milk and
sugar. These clog the system, irritate the digestive organs, and affect the
brain. Anything that hinders the active motion of the living machinery,
affects the brain very directly. And from the light given me, sugar, when
largely used, is more injurious than meat. These changes should be made
cautiously, and the subject should be treated in a manner not calculated to
disgust and prejudice those whom we would teach and help.
[SWEET BREADS AND CRACKERS--410, 507,
508] {CD 328.2}
R. & H.,
Jan. 7, 1902
528. We should not be prevailed upon to
take anything into the mouth that will bring the body into an unhealthy
condition, no matter how much we like it. Why?--Because we are God's
property. You have a crown to win, a heaven to gain, and a hell to shun. Then
for Christ's sake, I ask you, Will you have the light shine before you in
clear and distinct rays, and then turn away from it and say, "I love
this, and I love that'? God calls upon every one of you to begin to plan, to
cooperate with God in His great care and love, to elevate, ennoble, and
sanctify the whole soul, body, and spirit, that we may be workers together
with God. . . . {CD 328.3}
It is better to let sweet things alone.
Let alone those sweet dessert dishes that are placed on the table. You do not
need them. You want a clear mind to think after God's order.
[SEE PART III-PIE, CAKE, PASTRY, AND
PUDDINGS]
[CANDY NOT TO BE GIVEN INFANTS--346]
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{CD
328.4}
Sale of Knickknacks on the Campground
Letter 25a, 1889
529. Years ago I had a testimony of
reproof for the managers in our camp meetings bringing upon the ground and
selling to our people cheese and other hurtful things, and presenting candies
for sale when I was laboring to instruct the young and old to put the money
they had expended for candy in the missionary box and thus teach their
children self-denial. {CD 329.1}
MS
87, 1908
530. Light has been given me in regard
to the foods provided at our camp meetings. Foods are sometimes brought onto
the campground which are not in keeping with the principles of health reform.
{CD 329.2}
If we are to walk in the light God has
given us, we must educate our people, old and young, to dispense with these
foods that are eaten merely for the indulgence of appetite. Our children
should be taught to deny themselves of such unnecessary things as candies,
gum, ice cream, and other knickknacks, that they may put the money saved by
their self-denial into the self-denial box, of which there should be one in
every home. By this means large and small sums would be saved for the cause
of God. {CD 329.3}
Not a few of our people need instruction
in regard to the principles of health reform. There are various confections that
have been invented by manufacturers of health foods, and recommended as
perfectly harmless; but I have a different testimony to bear concerning them.
They are not truly healthful, and their use should not be encouraged. We need
to keep more strictly to a simple diet of fruits, nuts, grains, and
vegetables. {CD 329.4}
Let not foods or confectionery be
brought upon our campground that will counterwork the light given our people
on health reform. Let us not gloss over the temptation to indulge appetite,
by saying that the money received from the sale of such things is to be used
to meet the expenses of a good work. All such temptation to self-indulgence
should be firmly resisted. Let us not persuade ourselves to
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do
that which is unprofitable to the individual under the pretext that good will
come of it. Let us individually learn what it means to be self-denying, yet
healthful, active missionaries. {CD 329.5}
Sugar in Ellen G. White's Diet
Letter 5, 1870
531. Everything is plain yet wholesome
because it is not merely thrown together in a haphazard manner. We have no
sugar on our table. Our sauce which is our dependence is apples, baked or
stewed, sweetened as is required before being put upon the table. {CD 330.1}
Letter 1, 1873
532. We have always used a little milk
and some sugar. This we have never denounced, either in our writings or in
our preaching. We believe cattle will become so much diseased that these
things will yet be discarded, but the time has not yet come for sugar and
milk to be wholly abolished from our tables. {CD 330.2}
Part II--Milk and Sugar
(1870) 2T 368, 369
533. Now in regard to milk and sugar: I
know of persons who have become frightened at the health reform, and said
they would have nothing to do with it, because it has spoken against a free
use of these things. Changes should be made with great care; and we should
move cautiously and wisely. We want to take that course which will recommend
itself to the intelligent men and women of the land. Large quantities of milk
and sugar eaten together are injurious. They impart impurities to the system.
Animals from which milk is obtained are not always healthy. They may be
diseased. A cow may be apparently well in the morning and die before night.
Then she was diseased in the morning, and her milk was diseased, but you did
not know it. The animal creation is diseased. Flesh meats are diseased. Could
we know that animals were in perfect health, I would recommend that people
eat flesh meats sooner than large quantities of milk and sugar. It would
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not
do the injury that milk and sugar do. Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the
working of the living machine. {CD 330.3}
(1870) 2T 370
534. I frequently sit down to the tables
of the brethren and sisters, and see that they use a great amounts of milk
and sugar. These clog the system, irritate the digestive organs, and affect
the brain.
[FOR CONTEXT SEE 527] {CD 331.1}
[C.T.B.H. 57]
(1890) C.H. 154
535. Some use milk and a large amount of
sugar on mush, thinking that they are carrying out health reform. But the
sugar and milk combined are liable to cause fermentation in the stomach, and
are thus harmful. {CD 331.2}
(1905) M.H. 302
536. Especially harmful are the custards
and puddings in which milk, eggs, and sugar are the chief ingredients. The free use of milk and sugar taken together
should be avoided.
[ICE CREAM--530, 540]
[CAKE EATEN WITH MILK OR CREAM--552] {CD
331.3}
Part III--Pie, Cake, Pastry, Puddings
[SPEC. TEST. ON EDUCATION, OCTOBER,
1893] F.E. 227
537. The desserts which take so much
time to prepare, are, many of them, detrimental to health. {CD 331.4}
A Temptation to Overindulgence
Letter 73a, 1896
538. At too many tables, when the stomach
has received all that it requires to properly carry on its work of nourishing
the system, another course, consisting of pies, puddings, and highly flavored
sauces, is placed upon the table. . . . Many, though they have already eaten
enough, will overstep the bounds, and eat the tempting dessert, which,
however, proves anything but good for them. . . . If the extras which are
provided for dessert were dispensed with altogether, it would be a blessing.
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{CD
331.5}
(1864) Sp.
Gifts IV, 130
539. Because it is the fashion, in
harmony with morbid appetite, rich cake, pies, and puddings, and every
hurtful thing, are crowded into the stomach. The table must be loaded down
with a variety, or the depraved appetite cannot be satisfied. In the morning,
these slaves to appetite often have impure breath, and a furred tongue. They
do not enjoy health, and wonder why they suffer with pains, headaches, and
various ills. {CD 332.1}
(1865) H. to L.,
ch. 1, p. 53
540. The human family have indulged an
increasing desire for rich food, until it has become a fashion to crowd all
the delicacies possible into the stomach. Especially at parties of pleasure
is the appetite indulged with but little restraint. Rich dinners and late
suppers are partaken of, consisting of highly seasoned meats with rich
gravies, rich cakes, pies, ice cream, etc. {CD 332.2}
(1865) H. to L.,
ch. 1, p. 54
541. Because it is fashion, many who are
poor and dependent upon their daily labor, will be to the expense of
preparing different kinds of rich cakes, preserves, pies, and a variety of
fashionable food for visitors, which only injure those who partake of them;
when, at the same time, they need the amount thus expended, to purchase
clothing for themselves and children. This time occupied in cooking food to
gratify the taste at the expense of the stomach, should be devoted to the
moral and religious instruction of their children.
[FOR CONTEXT SEE 128]
[RICH FOODS CREATE DESIRE FOR
STIMULANTS--203] {CD 332.3}
Not a Part of a Healthful, Nourishing
Diet
Y.I., May 31, 1894
542. Many understand how to make
different kinds of cakes, but cake is not the best food to be placed upon the
table. Sweet cakes, sweet puddings, and custards will disorder the digestive
organs; and why should we tempt those who surround the table by placing such
articles before them?
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{CD
332.4}
(1870) 2T 400
543. Flesh meats and rich cakes and pies
prepared with spices of any kind, are not the most healthful and nourishing
diet. {CD 333.1}
Letter 91, 1898
544. The desserts that are taken in the
form of custards are liable to do more harm than good. Fruit, if it can be
obtained, is the best article of food. {CD 333.2}
(1905) M.H. 302
545. Far too much sugar is ordinarily
used in food. Cakes, sweet puddings, pastries, jellies, jams, are active
causes of indigestion. Especially harmful are the custards and puddings in
which milk, eggs, and sugar are the chief ingredients. The free use of milk
and sugar taken together should be avoided. {CD 333.3}
Letter 135, 1902
546. Let those who advocate health
reform strive earnestly to make it all that they claim it is. Let them
discard everything detrimental to health. Use simple, wholesome food. Fruit
is excellent, and saves much cooking. Discard rich pastries, cakes, desserts,
and other dishes prepared to tempt the appetite. Eat fewer kinds of food at
one meal, and eat with thanksgiving. {CD 333.4}
Simple Desserts Not Forbidden
Letter 17, 1895
547. Plain, simple pie may serve as
dessert, but when one eats two or three pieces merely to gratify an
inordinate appetite, he unfits himself for the service of God. Some, after
partaking largely of other food, will take dessert, not because they need it,
but because it tastes good. If they are asked to take a second piece, the temptation
is too great to be resisted, and two or three pieces of pie are added to the
load placed upon the already overworked stomach. He who will do this has
never educated himself to practice self-denial. The victim of appetite is so
wedded to his own way that he cannot see the injury he is doing to himself.
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{CD
333.5}
(1870) 2T 383, 384
548. Then, when she needed extra
clothing and extra food, and that of a simple yet nutritious quality, it was
not allowed her. Her system craved material to convert into blood; but he
would not provide it. A moderate amount of milk and sugar, a little salt,
white bread raised with yeast for a change, graham flour prepared in a
variety of ways by other hands than her, plain cake with raisins, rice
pudding with raisins, prunes, and figs, occasionally, and many other dishes I
might mention, would have answered the demand of appetite. {CD 334.1}
Letter 127, 1904
549. The food placed before the patients
should be such as to make a favorable impression on them. Eggs can be
prepared in a variety of ways. Lemon pie should not be forbidden.
[LEMON PIE USED BY E. G. WHITE--APPENDIX
1:22] {CD 334.2}
Letter 53, 1898
550. The dessert should be placed on the
table and served with the rest of the food; for often, after the stomach has
been given all it should have, the dessert is brought on, and is just that
much too much. {CD 334.3}
For Clear Minds and Strong Bodies
Letter 10, 1891
551. I wish we were all health
reformers. I am opposed to the use of pastries. These mixtures are
unhealthful; no one can have good digestive powers and a clear brain who will
eat largely of sweet cookies and cream cake and all kinds of pies, and partake
of a great variety of food at one meal. When we do this, and then take cold,
the whole system is so clogged and enfeebled that it has no power of
resistance, no strength to combat disease. I would prefer a meat diet to the
sweet cakes and pastries so generally used. {CD 334.4}
Letter 142, 1900
552. Let health reformers remember that
they may do harm by publishing recipes which do not recommend health reform.
Great care is to be shown in furnishing recipes for
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custards
and pastry. If for dessert sweet cake is eaten with milk or cream,
fermentation will be created in the stomach, and then the weak points of the
human organism will tell the story. The brain will be affected by the
disturbance in the stomach. This may be easily cured if people will study
from cause to effect, cutting out of their diet that which injures the
digestive organs and causes pain in the head. By unwise eating, men and women
are unfitted for the work they might do without injury to themselves if they
would eat simply. {CD 334.5}
(1871) 2T 602
553. I am convinced that none need to
make themselves sick preparing for camp meeting, if they observe the laws of
health in their cooking. If they make no cake or pies, but cook simple graham
bread, and depend on fruit, canned or dried, they need not get sick in
preparing for the meeting, and they need not be sick while at the meeting.
{CD 335.1}
R. &
H., Jan. 7, 1902
554. It is better to let sweet things
alone. Let alone those sweet dessert dishes that are placed on the table. You
do not need them. You want a clear mind to think after God's order. We should
now come into line with health reform principles.
[CAKES, PIES, ICES, SERVED AT RICH
DINNERS AND LATE SUPPERS --233]
[PREPARATIONS FOR FASHIONABLE
GATHERINGS--128]
[EDUCATING THE APPETITE TO ACCEPT A
PLAIN DIET--245]
[FASTING A HELP IN OVERCOMING PERVERTED
APPETITE--312]
[THOUGH MINCE PIES, SPICES, ETC., ARE
DISCARDED, FOOD SHOULD BE PREPARED WITH CARE--389]
[CAKES OR PIES NOT TO BE INCLUDED IN
PREPARATIONS FOR CAMP MEETING--57, 74]
[RICH FOOD AND DESSERTS NOT SERVED IN
WHITE HOME--APPENDIX 1:4, 13]
[THE LESS CONDIMENTS AND DESSERTS, THE
BETTER--193]
[RICH DESSERTS SERVED WITH
VEGETABLES--722]
[RICH PASTRY DERANGES THE STOMACH AND
EXCITES THE NERVES --356]
[DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF DESSERTS IN DIET
OF CHILDREN--288, 350, 355, 360]
[RICH FOOD NOT BEST FOR SEDENTARY
WORKERS--225]
[MAKING A COVENANT WITH GOD TO
DISCONTINUE THE USE OF RICH FOODS--41] {CD 335.2}
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