Nutrition

On the other hand, a wrong diet has a tendency to hinder mental and physical efficiency. It does more injury to the body and stops your mind from functioning properly. Take for an example a man who is intemperate in his eating habits — it is impossible for that man to be patient. It is prudent therefore to eat the right food at the right and regular times.

This food in itself was simple and fully nutritious. It is the deviation from this command that has in a great extent dragged the human family into innumerable woes.

In order to get the point right, we need again to re-examine God's original plan in man's diet. We need to dive deeper into the human structure and note the patterns in which God, having put in place, had marveled and said it was “very good!” Our present world, so filled with devils, drowning in appetite, swayed by human passions, the customs of society — is never a safe guide in matters of healthful living.

Care in Selection

Care should be taken in the selection of food. Our diet should be suited to: season, the climate in which we live, and the occupation which we pursue.

Some foods may be adapted to be used in one season or climate but wholly unfit to use in some other seasons or climate, as there also are some foods which may fit a man in sedentary labour as compared to a man in heavy manual labour.

In the similar light, He who created Adam had appointed him his food. He says, “I have given you every herb yielding seed... every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for food.” When sin entered our world, and Adam had proven unfit to continue staying in perfect Eden in his fallen corrupted nature, God, in His infinite wisdom, permitted him to partake of the herb of the field.

These foods, prepared in as simple and natural a manner as possible, are the most healthful and nourishing. They impart strength, a power of endurance, and a vigour of intellect that are not afforded by a more complex and stimulating diet. Thus, in order to maintain health, a sufficient supply of nourishing food is needed.

Nutritional Principles for Perfect Health

Erroneous eating and drinking leads to erroneous thinking and acting. In the daily living, all our enjoyment, all our suffering, can be surely traced, without failure, to the transgression of the natural law. Examine properly your habits of eating and drinking, study it more closely — cause to effect — you will only come to the acknowledgment that we never needed pills more than we needed to commit a reformative lifestyle. The will must need to be taught and exercised with persevering efforts, for one must turn aside from the wrong habits that have been strengthened by continuous past abuse.

For us to turn away the wave of degradation that has wretched the human frame, we need to strike the blow at the root issue in matters nutrition — TEMPERANCE. Hence the following principles are meant to lead us back to health, if decisively observed.