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

quantities of sugar. I asked him why he did this. He
said that he had left off meat, and did not know
what would supply its place as well as sugar. His
food did not satisfy him, simply because his wife
did not know how to cook. Some of you send your
daughters, who have nearly grown to womanhood,
to school to learn the sciences before they know
how to cook, when this should be made of the first
importance. Here was a woman who did not know
how to cook; she had not learned how to prepare
healthful food. The wife and mother was deficient
in this important branch of education; and as the
result, poorly cooked food not being sufficient to
sustain the demands of the system, sugar was eaten
immoderately, which brought on a diseased
condition of the entire system. This man's life was
sacrificed unnecessarily to bad cooking. When I
went to see the sick man I tried to tell them as well
as I could how to manage, and soon he began
slowly to improve. But he imprudently exercised
his strength when not able, ate a small amount not
of the right quality, and was taken down again.
This time there was no help for him. His system
appeared to be a living mass of corruption. He died
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