Health Note - Keeping it Simple with Common Sense

"Our bodies are built up from the food we eat. 

---Those foods should be chosen that best supply the elements

needed for building up the body. 

---In this choice, appetite is not a safe guide. 

---Through wrong habits of eating, the appetite has become perverted. Often it demands food that impairs health and causes weakness instead of strength. 

---We cannot safely be guided by the customs of society. 

The disease and suffering that everywhere prevail are largely due to popular errors in regard to diet.

---In order to know what are the best foods, we must study God's original plan for man's diet. He who created man and who understands his needs appointed Adam his food. "Behold," He said, "I have given you every herb yielding seed, . . . and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food." Genesis 1:29, A.R.V. 

Upon leaving Eden to gain his livelihood by tilling the earth under the curse of sin, man received permission to eat also "the herb of the field." Genesis 3:18. 

Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables constitute the diet chosen for us by our Creator. 

---These foods, prepared in as simple and natural a manner as
possible, are the most healthful and nourishing. 

---The meals should be varied. The same dishes, prepared in the same way, should not appear on the table meal after meal and day after day. 

---The meals are eaten with greater relish, and the system is better nourished, when the food is varied." E.G.W.