Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

educate, educate, by pen and voice, all who have
the responsibility of preparing food for the table.
Teach them to bind about their ambitious desires to
place before their family and before visitors a
variety of tempting dishes. It would be much better
to eat only two or three different kinds of food at
each meal, than to overload the stomach with many
varieties.
There are many kinds of intemperance in this
world. Overeating is intemperance just as surely as
liquor-drinking. Intemperate eating mars the
system, producing a morbid appetite, which
enslaves men and women. The stomach must have
careful attention. It must not be kept in continual
operation. Give this much used and much abused
organ some peace and quiet and rest. After it has
done its work for one meal, do not crowd more
work upon it before it has had a chance to rest, and
before a sufficient quantity of gastric juice is
provided. Five hours at least should be given
between each meal, and always bear in mind that if
you would give it a trial, you would find that two
meals would be better than three.
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