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

efforts to dispose of it, and then there is a sense of
languor, which is interpreted to mean hunger; and
without allowing the digestive organs time to rest
from their severe labor, to recruit their energies,
another immoderate amount is taken into the
stomach, to set the weary machinery again in
motion. The system receives less nourishment from
too great a quantity of food, even of the right
quality, than from a moderate quantity taken at
regular periods.
My brother, your brain is benumbed. A man
who disposes of the quantity of food that you do
should be a laboring man. Exercise is important to
digestion and to a healthy condition of body and
mind. You need physical exercise. You move and
act as if you were wooden, as though you had no
elasticity. Healthy, active exercise is what you
need. This will invigorate the mind. Neither study
nor violent exercise should be engaged in
immediately after a full meal; this would be a
violation of the laws of the system. Immediately
after eating there is a strong draft upon the nervous
energy. The brain force is called into active
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