A Solemn Appeal - Ellen G. White

Great care should be manifested by parents in
providing them the most healthful articles of food
for themselves and for their children. And in no
case should they place before their children food
which their reason teaches them is not conducive to
health, but which would fever the system, and
derange the digestive organs. Parents do not study
from cause to effect in regard to their children, as
in the case of their dumb animals, and do not
reason that to overwork, to eat after violent
exercise, and when much exhausted, and heated,
will injure the health of human beings, as well as
the health of dumb animals, and will lay the
foundation for a broken constitution in man, as
well as in beasts.
The father in many cases exercises more reason
respecting, and manifests more care for, his cattle
when with young, than he manifests for his wife,
when in a similar condition. The mother, in many
cases previous to the birth of her children, is
permitted to toil early and late, heating her blood,
while preparing various unhealthful dishes of food
to suit the perverted taste of the family, and of
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