Reform Should Be Progressive

The diet reform should be progressive. As disease in animals increases, the use of milk and eggs will become more and more unsafe. An effort should be made to supply their place with other things that are healthful and inexpensive. The people everywhere should be taught how to cook without milk and eggs, so far as possible, and yet have their food wholesome and palatable.MHH 179.3

The practice of eating only two meals a day is generally found to be beneficial to health, yet under some circumstances persons may require a third meal. But, if taken at all, this should be very light, and of food most easily digested. “Crackers”—the English biscuit—or zwieback, plus fruit or a non-caffeinated drink made from grain, are the foods best suited for the evening meal.MHH 179.4

Some continually fear that their food, however simple and healthful, may hurt them. To these let me say, Do not think that your food will injure you. Do not think about it at all. Eat according to your best judgment, and when you have asked the Lord to bless the food for the strengthening of your body, believe that He hears your prayer. Then relax and be at rest.MHH 179.5

Principle requires us to discard those things that irritate the stomach and impair health, but we should remember that an impoverished diet produces poverty of the blood. Cases of disease most difficult to cure result from this cause. The system is not sufficiently nourished, and chronic indigestion and general debility are the result. Those who use such a diet are not always compelled by poverty to do so, but they choose it through ignorance or negligence, or to carry out their erroneous ideas of reform.MHH 180.1