- 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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Answer
It was at the house of Brother A. Hilliard, at Otsego, Mich., June 6, 1863, that the great subject of Health Reform was open before me in vision. I did not visit Dansville till August, 1864, fourteen months after I had the view. I did not read any works upon health until I had written Spiritual Gifts, Vols. 3 and 4, Appeal to Mothers, and had sketched out most of my six articles in the six numbers of “How to Live.” I did not know that such a paper existed as the Laws of Life, published at Dansville, N. Y. I had not heard of the several works upon health, written by Dr. J. C. Jackson, and other publications at Dansville, at the time I had the view named above. I did not know that such works existed until September, 1863, when in Boston, Mass., my husband saw them advertised in a periodical called the Voice of the Prophets, published by Elder J. V. Himes. My husband ordered the works from Dansville and received them at Topsham, Maine. His business gave him no time to peruse them, and as I determined not to read them until I had written out my views, the books remained in their wrappers. As I introduced the subject of health to friends where I labored in Michigan, New England, and in the state of New York, and spoke against drugs and flesh-meats, and in favor of water, pure air, and a proper diet, the reply was often made, “You speak very nearly the opinions taught in the Laws of Life, and other publications, by Drs. Trall, Jackson, and others. Have you read that paper and those works?” My reply was that I had not, neither should I read them till I had fully written out my views, lest it should be said that I had received my light upon the subject of health from physicians, and not from the Lord. And after I had written my six articles for “How to Live,” I then searched the various works on Hygiene and was surprised to find them so nearly in harmony with what the Lord had revealed to me. And to show this harmony, and to set before my brethren and sisters the subject as brought out by able writers, I determined to publish “How to Live,” in which I largely extracted from the works referred to.TSDF 8.10