- Preface
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- Chapter 1—Breads
- Chapter 2—Butter
- Chapter 3—Cheese
- Chapter 4—Cider
- Chapter 5—Combinations
- Chapter 6—Cooking Schools
- Chapter 7—Diet in Different Countries
- Chapter 8—Diet and Morals
- Chapter 9—Diet During Pregnancy and Lactation
- Chapter 10—Diet and Spirituality
- Chapter 11—Eating Between Meals
- Chapter 12—Eggs
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- Chapter 14—Fasting
- Chapter 15—Feeding of Children
- Chapter 16—Flesh Foods
- Chapter 17—Foods as Remedies
- Chapter 18—Fruits
- Chapter 19—God's Remedies
- Chapter 20—Grains
- Chapter 21—Health Reform and the Third Angel's Message
- Chapter 22—Healthful Cookery
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- Chapter 24—How to Present the Principles of Health Reform
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- Chapter 26—Instruction to be Given on Health Topics
- Chapter 27—Mastication
- Chapter 28—Milk and Cream
- Chapter 29—Milk and Sugar
- Chapter 30—Number of Meals
- Chapter 31—Nuts and Nut Foods
- Chapter 32—Olives and Olive Oil
- Chapter 33—Original Diet
- Chapter 34—Physiology of Digestion
- Chapter 35—Pickles
- Chapter 36—Pie, Cake, Pastry and Puddings
- Chapter 37—Proper Diet
- Chapter 38a—Salt, Spices and Condiments
- Chapter 38b—Sanitarium Dietary
- Chapter 39—Simple Diet
- Chapter 40—Soda and Baking Powder
- Chapter 41—Sugar
- Chapter 42—Tea and Coffee
- Chapter 43—Water Drinking
- Chapter 44—Overeating and Control of Appetite
- Chapter 45—Improper Eating a Cause of Disease
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Chapter 27—Mastication
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 51-52
Masticate slowly, and allow the saliva to mingle with the foodTSDF 119.1
In order to secure healthy digestion, food should be eaten slowly. Those who wish to avoid dyspepsia, and those who realize their obligation to keep all their powers in a condition which will enable them to render the best service to God, will do well to remember this. If your time to eat is limited, do not bolt your food, but eat less, and masticate slowly. The benefit derived from food does not depend so much on the quantity eaten, as on its thorough digestion; nor the gratification of taste so much on the amount of food swallowed, as on the length of time it remains in the mouth.TSDF 119.2
The Ministry of Healing, 305
Food should be eaten slowly, and should be thoroughly masticated. This is necessary, in order that the saliva may be properly mixed with the food, and the digestive fluids be called into action.TSDF 119.3
Manuscript 3, 1897
Great care should be taken when the change is made from a flesh-meat to a vegetarian diet to supply the table with wisely prepared, well-cooked articles of food. So much porridge eating is a mistake. The dry food that requires mastication is far preferable. The health food preparations are a blessing in this respect. Good brown bread and rolls, prepared in a simple manner yet with painstaking effort will be healthful. Bread should never have the slightest taint of sourness. It should be cooked until it is most thoroughly done. Thus all softness and stickiness will be avoided.TSDF 119.4
For those who can use them, good vegetables, prepared in a healthful manner, are better than soft mushes or porridge. Fruits used with thoroughly cooked bread two or three days old will be more healthful than fresh bread. This, with slow and thorough mastication, will furnish all that the system requires.TSDF 119.5
The Review and Herald, May 8, 1883
To make rolls use soft water and milk, or a little cream; make a stiff dough and knead it as for crackers. Bake on the grate of the oven. These are sweet and delicious. They require thorough mastication, which is a benefit both to the teeth and the stomach. They make good blood, and impart strength.TSDF 119.6
The Review and Herald, July 29, 1884 No. 31 (Healthful Living, 90)
Food should not be washed down; no drink is needed with meals. Eat slowly, and allow the saliva to mingle with the food. The more liquid there is taken into the stomach with meals, the more difficult it is for the food to digest; for the liquid must be first absorbed.TSDF 119.7