Divine Principles for a Healthful and Balanced Diet

The most healthful diet for humans consists of fruits, grains, and vegetables prepared in a simple, nutritious way, free from spices and grease, and supplemented with milk or creamCD 92.1+1. These dietary laws are just as divine in origin and importance as the Ten Commandments, and violating them leads to physical, mental, and moral degeneracyCCh 215.5+1. It is essential to avoid the two extremes of a meager, "poverty-stricken" diet and the gluttonous overindulgence of even wholesome foodCD 131.4+2. True health reform involves a gradual, intelligent change toward the original diet given to man, which includes fruits, grains, nuts, and various rootsTSDF 99.5+1.

We should be encouraged that the Lord in His love has sent this light to protect our health and vigor of intellectCD 314.2+1. By following these principles, we cooperate with the Creator in maintaining the wonderful machinery of the human bodyCCh 215.5.

...taste and nutritious to the system. Of these our benevolent heavenly Father says we may freely eat. Fruits, grains, and vegetables, prepared in a simple way, free from spice and grease of all kinds, make, with milk or cream, the most healthful diet. They impart nourishment to the body, and give a power of endurance and a vigor of intellect that a...— CD 92.1 (1938)

211. It is possible to eat immoderately, even of wholesome food. It does not follow that because one has discarded the use of hurtful articles of diet, he can eat just as much as he pleases. Overeating, no matter what the quality of the food, clogs the living machine, and thus hinders it in its work.—[Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 51] Counsels on He...— CD 131.4 (1938)

...s human machinery in healthful action if the human agent will obey His laws and cooperate with God. Every law governing the human machinery is to be considered just as truly divine in origin, in character, and in importance as the word of God. Every careless, inattentive action, any abuse ...— CCh 215.5 (1991)

...erstraining of small points, have been a great injury to the cause of hygiene. There may be such an effort at economy in the preparation of food, that, instead of a healthful diet, it becomes a poverty-stricken diet. What is the result?—Poverty of the blood. I have seen several cases of disease most difficul...— CD 197.1 (1938)

...health reform is that they have not learned how to cook so that proper food, simply prepared, would supply the place of the diet to which they have been accustomed.—Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 119— HL 77.4 (1897)

...g these restaurants in many cities, that we may teach the people the value of a health reform diet. No meat, tea, or coffee are served in our restaurants. The fare is wholesome and nourishing, and is made up of grains, vegetables, nuts, and fruits. We endeavor to demonstrate to those who come the advantage of a diet of this kind over a flesh die...— 8MR 397.2 (1990)

...t, after all the light that has been given in this place, many of you eat between meals! You should never let a morsel pass your lips between your regular meals. Eat what you ought, but eat it at one meal, and then wait until the next. I eat enough to satisfy ...— TSDF 38.1 (1926)

...influence in health reform unless in some things you become more liberal to yourself and to others. The time will come when milk can not be used as freely as it is now used; but the present time is not the time to discard it. And eggs contain properties which are remedial agencies in counteracting poisons. And while warnin...— TSDF 49.3 (1926)

The body is to be brought into subjection. The higher powers of the being are to rule. The passions are to be controlled by the will, which is itself to be under the control of God. The kingly power of reason, sanctified by divine grace, is to bear sway in our lives— TSDF 89.4 (1926)

It is not well to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal. If the digestion is feeble, the use of both will often cause distress, and inability to put forth ...— TSDF 132.8 (1926)

The self-denial, humility, and temperance required of the righteous, whom God especially leads and blesses, is to be presented to the people in contrast to the extravagant, health-destroying habit...— CD 71.3 (1938)

...hould criticize others because their practice is not, in all things, in harmony with his own. It is impossible to make an unvarying rule to regulate every one's habits, and no one should think himself a criterion for all. Not all can eat the same things. Foods that are palatable and wholesome to one person may be dista...— CD 198.3 (1938)