- 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 28—Milk and Cream
Letter 45, 1903
I eat but two meals a day, and still follow the light given me thirty-five years ago. I use no meat. As for myself, I have settled the butter question. I do not use it. This question should easily be settled in every place where the purest article can not be obtained. We have two good milch cows, a Jersey and a Holstein. We use cream, and all are satisfied with this.TSDF 119.8
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 47
God has furnished man with abundant means for the gratification of an unperverted appetite. He has spread before him the products of the earth,—a bountiful variety of food that is palatable to the taste, and nutritious to the system. Of these our benevolent heavenly Father says we may freely eat. 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.TSDF 119.9
Testimonies for the Church 9:162
Food should be prepared in such a way that it will be appetizing as well as nourishing. It should not be robbed of that which the system needs. I use some salt, and always have, because salt, instead of being deleterious, is actually essential for the blood. Vegetables should be made palatable with a little milk or cream, or something equivalentTSDF 119.10
Some, in abstaining from milk, eggs, and butter, have failed to supply the system with proper nourishment, and as a consequence have become weak and unable to work. Thus health reform is brought into disrepute. The work that we have tried to build up solidly is confused with strange things that God has not required, and the energies of the church are crippled. But God will interfere to prevent the results of these too strenuous ideas. The gospel is to harmonize the sinful race. It is to bring the rich and poor together at the feet of Jesus.TSDF 119.11
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the articles of diet we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs; but it is not necessary to bring upon ourselves perplexity by premature and extreme restrictions. Wait until the circumstances demand it, and the Lord prepares the way for it.TSDF 120.1
Testimonies for the Church 7:135
Milk, eggs, and butter should not be classed with flesh-meat. In some cases the use of eggs is beneficial. The time has not come to say that the use of milk and eggs should be wholly discarded. There are poor families whose diet consists largely of bread and milk. They have little fruit, and can not afford to purchase the nut foods. In teaching health reform, as in all other gospel work, we are to meet the people where they are. Until we can teach them how to prepare health-reform foods that are palatable, nourishing, and yet inexpensive, we are not at liberty to present the most advanced propositions regarding health-reform diet.TSDF 120.2
Let the diet reform be progressive. Let the people be taught how to prepare food without the use of milk or butter. Tell them that the time will soon come when there will be no safety in using eggs, milk, cream, or butter, because disease in animals is increasing in proportion to the increase of wickedness among men. The time is near when, because of the iniquity of the fallen race, the whole animal creation will groan under the diseases that curse our earth.TSDF 120.3
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healthful Living, 79)
Meat eating is doing its work, for the meat is diseased. We may not long be able to use even milk.TSDF 120.4
Letter 135, 1902
The time has not yet come when I can say that the use of milk and of eggs should be wholly discontinued. Milk and eggs should not be classed with flesh-meats. In some ailments the use of eggs is very beneficial.TSDF 120.5
Testimonies for the Church 2:369
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.TSDF 120.6
The Ministry of Healing, 302
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.TSDF 120.7
If milk is used, it should be thoroughly sterilized; with this precaution, there is less danger of contracting disease from its use.TSDF 120.8
Letter 37, 1901
We are to be brought into connection with the masses. Should health reform be taught them in its most extreme form, harm would be done. We ask them to leave off eating meat and drinking tea and coffee. That is well. But some say that milk also should be given up. This is a subject that needs to be carefully handled. There are poor families whose diet consists of bread and milk, and, if they can get it, a little fruit. All flesh-food should be discarded, but vegetables should be made palatable with a little milk or cream or something equivalent. The poor say, when health reform is presented to them, “What shall we eat? We can not afford to buy the nut foods.” As I preach the gospel to the poor, I am instructed to tell them to eat that food which is most nourishing. I can not say to them, “You must not eat eggs or milk or cream. You must use no butter in the preparation of food.” The gospel must be preached to the poor, and the time has not yet come to prescribe the strictest diet.TSDF 120.9
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the articles of diet we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs; but my message is that you must not bring yourself to a time of trouble beforehand, and thus afflict yourself with death. Wait till the Lord prepares the way before you.TSDF 120.10
I assure you that your ideas in regard to diet for the sick are not advisable. The change is too great. While I would discard flesh-meat as injurious, something less objectionable may be used, and this is found in eggs. Do not remove milk from the table or forbid it being used in the cooking of food. The milk used should be procured from healthy cows, and should be sterilized.TSDF 120.11
The time will come when milk can not be used as freely as it is now used; but the present is not the time to discard itTSDF 120.12
But I wish to say that when the time comes that it is no longer safe to use milk, cream, butter, and eggs, God will reveal this. No extremes in health reform are to be advocated. The question of using milk and butter and eggs will work out its own problem. At present we have no burden on this line. Let your moderation be known unto all men.TSDF 120.13