Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

ut their morals are corrupted, because diseased
blood flows through their veins.
I have a suggestion to make to those who have
moral courage and self-control enough to try it. If
your work is sedentary, take exercise every day,
and at each meal eat only two or three kinds of
simple food, taking no more of these than will
satisfy the demands of hunger. Make up your mind
that this is all the food you will give your stomach.
For some days perseveringly carry out your
determination to eat less than you have in the past.
See how this will work. Strong, hearty men, who
are engaged in active physical labor, can eat food
which those of sedentary habits can not eat without
injury to their health. Those engaged in active
physical labor are not compelled to be so careful as
to the quantity or quality of their food. But even
this class of people could have better health by
practicing earnest self-control in eating and
drinking. But one's stomach cannot be made the
rule for measuring the diet of every one else.
It is the positive duty of physicians to educate,
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