Sacred Duty: Sharing Healthful Recipes and Rejecting Patents

Education for Health: We are called to "educate, educate, educate" the people on how to obtain and prepare life-sustaining food that does not bring diseaseKC 144.4+2.

Divine Guidance: The Lord is ready to give skill, tact, and understanding to those who experiment with the fruits, grains, and vegetables of the earth to create healthful dishesHFM 24.3+1.

A Missionary Act: Imparting knowledge about healthful living is a form of ministry and should be shared as readily as Bible instructionDA 822.3+2.

Replacing Meat: As flesh foods are discarded, it is essential to share recipes for dishes that are palatably prepared and nicely served so that the transition is not a "starvation diet"13MR 39.2+2.

Simplicity and Wholesomeness: Only recipes for the plainest, simplest, and most wholesome food should be placed in our journals or cookbooks7MR 55.2+1.

Pruning Unhealthful Content: Our cookbooks and journals should be pruned of complex, rich, or unhealthful recipes that do not recommend true health reformKC 144.4+2.

Avoiding "Health Deform": We must be careful not to present "tasteless" or "insipid" dishes as the standard, as the body needs proper nourishment to perform its workCCh 237.3+2.

No Flesh Meat: Recipes should not encourage the preparation of any dishes containing flesh meat, as this points back to the ignorance of EgyptTSDF 18.6+2.

Caution with Stimulants and Richness: Recipes using large proportions of nuts or spices should be modified, as they can be too rich for the system to properly assimilateCD 364.2+2.

Personal Experimentation: Rather than following a certain recipe without variation, we should use our own judgment and "common sense" to decide what is best for our specific needsCD 93.2+1.

Adapting to Success: If a recipe as written does not agree with the stomach, we are encouraged to experiment and change it until we find a combination that is both wholesome and palatableCD 93.2+1.

Sharing with Kindness: When we find success in our own homes or families, we should be eager to communicate these "mysteries of the heart" in Christlike sympathy and loveSTJ 77.4+1.

A Gift to be Shared: Instruction regarding simple, healthful food preparations should be given freely to those who desire to live healthfully, and especially to the poorCH 476.1.

Divine Ownership: Knowledge of how to prepare wholesome food is not a personal possession; it is God's property and should be imparted to others as readily as Bible instruction21MR 286.3+2.

Avoiding Financial Speculation: The health food work is the property of God and must not be turned into a financial speculation for personal gainHFM 58.3.

Missionary Objectives: We are to be more concerned with the advancement of health reform than with the business interests or sales of health food factoriesKC 144.2+1.

Home Preparation: Families should be taught how to make their own health foods rather than being dependent on buying expensive, commercially prepared products15MR 320.1+1.

Sharing Recipes: When individuals write to our institutions because they cannot afford commercial health foods, they should be sent recipes so they can prepare these simple foods themselvesGCDB March 1, 1897, page 189.3.

Universal Accessibility: As God gave manna to the children of Israel, He will give skill and wisdom to people in all parts of the world to use the productions of their own countries to prepare healthful foodHFM 58.3+1.

A Cooperative Effort: Every man's work should be done with reference to his fellow laborers, maintaining an unselfish spirit in all lines of God's vineyard4MR 419.3+1.

Following Christ’s Example: We are to use the methods that Christ used to disseminate light, leaving no means untried to forward the plan of salvationLUH November 17, 1909, par. 3.

A Warning Against Selfishness: If we manage the cause of God according to our own strength or for our own profit, we cannot expect much; we must hide self in Christ so our methods are wrought in God15MR 2.2.