Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

full inspirations of air, which would electrify the
blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and
which alone can keep it pure and give tone and
vigor to every part of the living machinery.
You, my dear brother and sister, can have a
much better condition of health than you now
enjoy, and can avoid very many ill turns, if you
will simply exercise temperance in all things—
temperance in labor, temperance in eating and
drinking. Hot drinks are debilitating to the
stomach. Cheese should never be introduced into
the stomach. Fine-flour bread cannot impart to the
system the nourishment that you will find in the
unbolted wheat bread. The common use of bolted
wheat bread cannot keep the system in a healthy
condition. You both have inactive livers. The use
of fine flour aggravates the difficulties under which
you are laboring.
There is no treatment which can relieve you of
your present difficulties while you eat and drink as
you do. You can do that for yourselves which the
most experienced physician can never do. Regulate
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