Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

preservation and vigorous exercise of all the
functions of the body.
Strictly temperate habits, combined with
exercise of the muscles as well as of the mind, will
preserve both mental and physical vigor and give
power of endurance to those engaged in the
ministry, to editors, and to all others whose habits
are sedentary. As a people, with all our profession
of health reform, we eat too much. Indulgence of
appetite is the greatest cause of physical and
mental debility, and lies at the foundation of
feebleness, which is apparent everywhere.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:487 (1875).
Restrict the Varieties of Food.—We must
care for the digestive organs and not force upon
them a great variety of food. He who gorges
himself with many kinds of food at a meal is doing
himself injury. It is more important that we eat that
which will agree with us than that we taste of every
dish that may be placed before us. There is no door
in our stomach by which we can look in and see
what is going on; so we must use our mind, and
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