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this link to pathlights is a natural remedie encyclopedia. Every home should have a copy of this book. Its information is important for anyone who whats to stay healthy and follow the laws of health prescribed by God.
http://www.pathlights.com/nr_encyclopedia/Index.htm
Here is some reading material that you will also find important in the process of staying healthy. These are the Health Laws as given to us by God.
THE LAWS OF HEALTHNatural Remedies:- Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in divine power - these are the true remedies. Every person should have a knowledge of nature's remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge. (1)
There are many ways of practicing the healing art, but there is only one way that Heaven approves. God's remedies are the simple agencies of nature that will not tax or debilitate the system through their powerful properties. Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate. Fresh air, exercise, pure water, and clean, sweet premises are within the reach of all with but little expense, but drugs are expensive, both in the outlay of means and in the effect produced upon the system. (2)
The Eight Laws of Health
1. Pure Air
2. Sunlight
3. Temperance
4. Rest
5. Diet
6. Water
7. Exercise
8. Trust in Divine Power
1. Pure Air
Your lungs, deprived of air, will be like a hungry person deprived of food. Indeed, we can live longer without food than without air, which is the food that God has provided for the lungs. Therefore do not regard it as an enemy, but as a precious blessing from God. (3)
Many have been taught from childhood that night air is positively injurious to health and therefore must be excluded from their rooms. To their own injury they close the windows and doors of their sleeping apartments to protect themselves from the night air which they say is so dangerous to health. In this they are deceived. In the cool of the evening it may be necessary to guard from chilliness by extra clothing, but they should give their lungs air. (4)
Many labour under the mistaken idea that if they have taken cold, they must carefully exclude the outside air and increase the temperature of their room until it is excessively hot. The system may be deranged, the pores closed by waste matter, and the internal organs suffering more or less inflammation, because the blood has been chilled back from the surface and thrown upon them. At this time, of all others, the lungs should not be deprived of pure, fresh air. If pure air is ever necessary, it is when any part of the system, as the lungs or stomach, is diseased. Judicious exercise would induce the blood to the surface, and thus relieve the internal organs. Brisk, yet not violent exercise in the open air, with cheerfulness of spirits, will promote the circulation, giving a healthful glow to the skin, and sending the blood, vitalised by the pure air, to the extremities. The diseased stomach will find relief by exercise. Physicians frequently advise invalids to visit foreign countries, to go to the springs, or to ride upon the ocean, in order to regain health; when, in nine cases out of ten, if they would eat temperately and engage in healthful exercise with a cheerful spirit, they would regain health and save time and money. Exercise, and a free and abundant use of the air and sunlight, - blessings which Heaven has freely bestowed upon all, - would give life and strength to the emaciated invalid. (5)
2. Sunlight
Invalids too often deprive themselves of sunlight. This is one of nature's most healing agents. It is a very simple, therefore not a fashionable remedy, to enjoy the rays of God's sunlight and beautify our homes with its presence. Fashion takes the greatest care to exclude the light of the sun from parlours and sleeping rooms by dropping curtains and closing shutters, as though its rays were ruinous to life and health. It is not God who has brought upon us the many woes to which mortals are heirs. Our own folly has led us to deprive ourselves of things that are precious, of blessings which God has provided and which, if properly used, are of inestimable value for the recovery of health. If you would have your homes sweet and inviting, make them bright with air and sunshine. Remove your heavy curtains, open the windows, throw back the blinds, and enjoy the rich sunlight, even if it be at the expense of the colours of your carpets. The precious sunlight may fade your carpets, but it will give a healthful colour to the cheeks of your children. If you have God's presence and possess earnest, loving hearts, a humble home made bright with air and sunlight, and cheerful with the welcome of unselfish hospitality, will be to your family, and to the weary traveller, a heaven below. (6)
3. Temperance
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."' 1 Corinthians 10:31
Those who eat and work intemperately and irrationally, talk and act irrationally. An intemperate man cannot be a patient man. It is not necessary to drink alcoholic liquors in order to be intemperate. The sin of intemperate eating, eating too frequently, too much, and of rich, unwholesome food, destroys the healthy action of the digestive organs, affects the brain, and perverts the judgment, preventing rational, calm, healthy thinking and acting. . . Therefore in order for the people of God to be in an acceptable state with Him, where they can glorify Him in their bodies and spirits which are His, they must with interest and zeal deny the gratification of their appetites, and exercise temperance in all things. (7)
4. Rest
Proper periods of sleep and rest and an abundance of physical exercise are essential to health of body and mind. To rob nature of her hours for rest and recuperation by allowing one man to do the work of four, or of three, or even of two, will result in irreparable loss. (8)
Sleep, nature's sweet restorer, invigorates the weary body, and prepares it for the next day's duties. (9)
Give the weary brain a rest. Unreasonable hours are destructive to the physical, the mental, and the moral powers. If the brain were given proper periods of rest, the thoughts would be clear and sharp, and business would be expedited. (10)
5. Diet
The Lord intends to bring his people back to live upon simple fruits, vegetables, and grains. . . . God provided fruit in its natural state for our first parents. (11) People cannot all eat the same things. Some articles of food that are wholesome and palatable to one person may be hurtful to another. So it is impossible to make an unvarying rule by which to regulate every one's dietetic habits. (12)
In the study of hygiene, students should be taught the nutrient value of different foods. The effect of a concentrated and stimulating diet, also of foods deficient in the elements of nutrition, should be made plain. Tea and coffee, fine-flour bread, pickles, coarse vegetables, candies, condiments, and pastries fail of supplying proper nutriment. Many a student has broken down as the result of using such foods. Many a puny child, incapable of vigorous effort of mind or body, is the victim of an impoverished diet. Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables, in proper combination, contain all the elements of nutrition; and when properly prepared, they constitute the diet that best promotes both physical and mental strength. (13)
There is need to consider not only the properties of the food but its adaptation to the eater. Often food that can be eaten freely by persons engaged in physical labour must be avoided by those whose work is chiefly mental. Attention should be given also to the proper combination of foods. By brain workers and others of sedentary pursuits, but few kinds should be taken at a meal. (14)
6. Water
Pure water to drink and fresh air to breathe invigorate the vital organs, purify the blood, and help nature in her task of overcoming the bad conditions of the system. (15)
In health and in sickness, pure water is one of heaven's choicest blessings. Its proper use promotes health. It is the beverage which God provided to quench the thirst of animals and man. Drunk freely, it helps to supply the necessities of the system and assists nature to resist disease. The external application of water is one of the easiest and most satisfactory ways of regulating the circulation of the blood. A cold or cool bath is an excellent tonic. Warm baths open the pores and thus aid in the elimination of impurities. Both warm and neutral bath soothe the nerves and equalise the circulation. (16)
Food should not be washed down; no drink is needed with meals. Eat slowly, and allow the saliva to mingle with the food. The more liquid there is taken into the stomach with the meals, the more difficult it is for the food to digest; for the liquid must be first absorbed. . . . Hot drinks are debilitating; and besides, those who indulge in their use become slaves to the habit. . . . Do not eat largely of salt; give up bottled pickles; keep fiery spiced food out of your stomach; eat fruit with your meals, and the irritation which calls for so much drink will cease to exist. But if anything is needed to quench thirst, pure water, drunk some little time before or after a meal, is all that nature requires. . . . Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues. (17)
7. Exercise
Those who do not use their limbs every day will realise a weakness when they do attempt to exercise. The veins and muscles are not in a condition to perform their work and keep all the living machinery in healthful action, each organ in the system doing its part. The limbs will strengthen with use. Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled. By active exercise in the open air every day, the liver, kidneys, and lungs also will be strengthened to perform their work. Bring to your aid the power of the will, which will resist cold and will give energy to the nervous system. In a short time you will so realise the benefit of exercise and pure air that you would not live without these blessings. (18)
8. Trust in Divine Power
We can serve God better in the vigour of health than in the palsy of disease; therefore we should cooperate with God in the care of our bodies. Love for God is essential for life and health. Faith in God is essential for health. In order to have perfect health, our hearts must be filled with love and hope and joy in the Lord. (19)
HEALTH LAWS
Ellen G. White - Author
Prepared by DALE Y. PASCO, M.D., FPCS
“Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” Revelation 14:12
“For the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.” Revelation 19:10
“Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in divine power.—these are the true remedies.” MH 127
(NEW START).* coined by Weimar Institute in California. Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunlight, Temperance, Air, Rest, and Trust in God.
“There should be more earnest efforts made to enlighten the people upon the great subject of health reform. Tracts of four, eight, twelve, sixteen, and more pages containing pointed well written articles of this great question should be scattered like the leaves of autumn.” Counsels on Diet and Foods, pp 461-2
“Nature’s process of healing and upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient it seems slow. The surrender of hurtful indulgences requires sacrifice. But in the end it will be found that nature, untrammeled, does her work wisely and well. Those who persevere in obedience to her laws will reap the reward in health of body and health of mind.” MH 127
PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION
“At least five or six hours should intervene between the meals.” CDF 173
“After the regular meal is eaten the stomach should be allowed to rest for five hours. Not a particle of food should be introduced into the stomach till the next meal.” CDF 179 (MS 1, 1876)
“Regularity in eating is of vital importance. There should be specified time for each meal. At this time, let every one eat what the system requires, and then take nothing more until the next meal’. CDF 179 (MH 303-4) 1905
“In no case should the meals be irregular. If dinner is eaten an hour or two before the usual time, the stomach is unprepared for the new burden ; for it has not yet disposed of the food eaten at the previous meal and has not vital force for the new work. Thus the system is overtaxed.
Neither should the meals be delayed one or two hours, to suit circumstances, or in order that a certain amount of work may be accomplished. The stomach calls for food the time it is accustomed to receive it. If the time is delayed, the vitality of the system decreases, and finally reaches low an ebb that the appetite is entirely gone. If food is then taken, the stomach is unable to properly care for it. The food cannot be converted into good blood.” CDF179
2. “At breakfast time the stomach is in a better condition to take care of more food that at the second or third meal of the day.” IBID Eat a Substantial Breakfast
3.“For persons of sedentary habits, late suppers are particularly harmful. With them the disturbance created is often the beginning of disease and ends in death.” IBID
“Many indulge in the pernicious habit of eating just before sleeping hours.” CDF 174
“If the third meal be eaten at all in should be light, and several hours before going to bed.”
CDF 174
4. “Another serious evil is eating at improper times, as after a violent or excessive exercise, when one is exhausted or heated.
Immediately after eating there is a strong draft upon the nervous energies and when mind or body is heavily taxed just before or just after eating digestion is hindered.”
MH 306 (1905) CDF 109
Digestion is aided by moderate exercise
5. When one is excited, anxious, or hurried, it is better not to eat not until rest or relief is found. IBID
6.”Eat slowly. At mealtime cast off care and anxious thought; do not feel hurried, but eat slowly and with cheerfulness, and with your heart filled with gratitude to God for all His blessings.” IBID
“ The stomach is closely related to the brain’; and when the stomach is disease, the nerve power is called from the brain to the aid the weakened digestive organs. When these demands are too frequent, the brain becomes congested. When the stomach is constantly taxed, and there is a lack of physical exercise, even plain food should be eaten sparingly.
7. Many make a mistake in drinking cold water with their meals. Taken with meals, water diminishes the flow of the salivary glands; and the colder the water, the greater the injury to the stomach. Ice water or ice lemonade, drunk with meals will arrest digestion until the system has imparted sufficient warmth to the stomach to enable it to take up its work again. Hot drinks are debilitating; and besides and those who indulge in their use are slaves to the habit.”
Food should not be washed down; no drink is needed with meals. Eat slowly and allow the saliva to mingle with the food.” CDF 420 R & H July 29 1884
The more liquid there is taken into the stomach with meals, the more difficult it is for the food to digest; for the liquid must first be absorbed.” IBID
8. But if anything is needed to quench thirst, pure water drunk some little time before or after the meal, is all that nature requires. IBID
Never take tea, coffee, beer, wine or any spiritous liquors. Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues. IBID
9. Physical Effects of Overeating. “What influence does overeating have upon the stomach? It becomes debilitated, the digestive organs are weakened, and the disease, with all its trains of evils, it brought on as the result.” CDF 101(2 T 364) 1870
10. “It would be much better to eat only two or three different kinds of food at a meal than to load the stomach with many varieties.” CDF 110(Letter 73a, 1896)
“The variety of food at one meal causes unpleasantness, and destroys the good which each article if taken alone, would do the system. This practice causes constant suffering, and often death.” Letter 54 1895 (CDF 110)
“Disturbance is created by improper combination of food; FERMENTATION sets; the blood is contaminated and the brain confused.
“The habits of overeating, or of eating too many kinds of food at one meal, frequently causes DYSPEPSIA. Serious injury is thus done to the delicate digestive organs. In vain the stomach protests, and appeals to the brain to reason from CAUSE TO EFFECT. The excessive amount of food eaten, or the improper combination, does its injurious work. In vain do disagreeable premonitions give warning. Suffering is the consequence. Disease takes the place of health.” 7 T 257 (1902) CDF 110, 111
11. “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 mental effort. It is better to have the fruit at one meal, and vegetables at another.
The meals should be varied. The same dishes, prepared in the same way, should not appear on the table meal after meal, day after day. The meals are eaten with greater relish, and the system is better nourished, when the food is varied.” CDF 112 (MH 299,300) 1905
MEAT
“Cancers, tumors, and all inflammatory disease are largely caused by meat eating….The prevalence of cancer and tumors is largely due to gross living on dead flesh.” CDF 388
“Not an ounce of flesh meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh is unnatural. We are to return to God’s original purpose in the creation of man.” CDF 380
“Meat is not essential for health or strength, else the Lord made a mistake when He provided food for Adam and Eve before the fall.” CDF 395
Pork
“The tissues of the swine swarm with parasites. Of the swine, God said, ‘It is unclean unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.’ Swine are scavengers, and this is the only use they were intended to serve. Never, under any circumstances, was their flesh to be eaten by human beings.” CDF 392 (MH 313, 324) 1905
“Swine’s flesh above all other flesh meats, produces a bad state of the blood. Those who eat freely of pork can but be diseased….
But it is not the physical health alone which is injured by pork eating. The mind is affected, and the finer sensibilities are blunted by the use of this gross article of food…. The flesh of the swine is composed of what they eat. If human beings eat their flesh, their blood and the their flesh will be corrupted by impurities conveyed to them through the swine.
The eating of pork has produced scrofula, leprosy, and cancerous humors. Pork eating is still causing the most intense suffering to the human race.
Fish
“In many places fish become so contaminated by the filth on which they feed as to be a cause of disease. This is especially the case where the fish come in contact with the sewage of large cities. The fish that are fed on the contents of the drains may pass into distant waters, and may be caught where the water is pure and fresh. Thus when used as food they bring disease and death on those who do not suspect the danger.” CDF 394
MILK AND EGGS
“Let the diet reform be progressive. Let the people be taught how to prepare food without the use of milk or butter. Tell them the time will soon come when there will be no safety in using eggs, milk, cream, or butter because disease in animals is increasing in proportion to the increase in wickedness among men. The time* is near, when because of the iniquity of the fallen race, the whole animal creation will groan under the disease that curse our earth.” CDF 349 (7 T 135) 1902
SUGAR
“Sugar is not good for the stomach. It causes fermentation, and this clouds the brain and brings peevishness into the disposition.” CDF 327 1901
“Far too much sugar is ordinarily used in food. Cakes sweet puddings, pastries, jellies, jams, are active causes of indigestion. Especially harmful are the custards and puddings in which milk, eggs, sugar are the chief ingredients. The free use of milk and sugar taken together be avoided.” MH 302 (1905)
“Sugar* clogs the system it hinders the working of the living machines.” 2 T 369, 370 (CDF 327) 1870
*Loma Linda University, CA, USA- Judy Reser- 10 tsps of white sugar depress the activity of the neutrophils by 50%, which is equivalent to 1 can of softdrink and persisted for 5 hours. 30 tsp. of sugar depress neutrophil activity by 100%
SPICES AND CONDIMENTS
“Condiments so frequently used by those of the world, are ruinous to digestion.” CDF 339 (Letter 142, 1900)
“Condiments are injurious in their nature. Mustard, pepper, spices, pickles, and other things of like character, irritate the stomach and make the blood feverish and impure. The inflamed condition of the drunkard stomach is often pictured as illustrating the effect of alcoholic liquors. A similarly inflamed condition is produced by the use of irritating condiments.” CDF 339 (MY 325) 1905
“Spices at first irritate the tender coating of the stomach, and finally destroy natural sensitiveness of this delicate membrane. The blood becomes fevered the animal propensities are aroused, while the moral and intellectual powers were weakened, and become servants to the baser passions.”
CDF 341 (CH 114) 1890
BAKING POWDER
“The use of soda or baking powder in bread making is harmful and often unnecessary. Soda causes inflammation of the stomach, and often poisons the entire system.” MH 300, 301 (CDF 343) 1905
“Hot biscuits raised with soda or baking powder should never appear upon our tables. Such compounds are unfit to enter the stomach. Hot raised bread of any kind is difficult of digestion.”
RH May 8, 1883 (CDF 343)
CHEESE
“Cheese should never be introduced into the stomach.” 2 T 68 (CDF 368) 1868
BUTTER
“Butter is less harmful when eaten on cold bread but when used in cooking; but, as a rule, it is better to dispense with it altogether. Cheese is still more objectionable; it is wholly unfit for food.”
MH 3302 (CDF 368) 1905
“Many a mother sets a table that is a snare to her family. Flesh meats, butter, cheese, rich pastry, spiced foods, and condiments are freely partaken of by both old and young. These things do their work in deranging the stomach, exciting the nerves, and enfeebling the intellect. The blood-making organs cannot convert such things into good blood. The grease cooked in the food renders it difficult of digestion. The effect of cheese is deleterious.” CTBH 46, 47, (CH 114, CDF 368) 1890
LARD AND GREASE
“Grains and fruits prepared free from grease, and in as natural a condition as possible should be the food for the tables of all who claim to be preparing for translation to heaven.” 2 T 352 (CDF 355) 1869
“You should keep grease out of your food. It defiles any preparation of food you may make.”
“A plain diet, free from spices, and flesh meats, and grease of all kinds, would prove a blessing to you….” 2 T 45, 46 (CDF 83) 1868
“The grease cooked in the food renders it difficult of digestion.” CH 114 (CTBH 1890, CDF 369)
SALT
“Do not eat largely of salt, avoid the use of pickles and spiced foods, eat an abundance of fruit, and the irritation that calls for so much drink at mealtime will largely disappear.” CDF 344 (MH 305) 1905
PICKLES AND VINEGAR
“The minced pies and the pickles, which never find a place in any human stomach, will give a miserable quality of blood.” CDF 345 (2 T 368) 1870
“The blood making organs cannot convert spices, minced pies, pickles, and diseased flesh meats into good blood.” CDF 345 (2 T 383 1870)
“The salads are prepared with oil and vinegar, fermentation takes place in the stomach, and the food does not digest, but decays or putrefies; as a consequence, the blood is not nourished, but becomes filled with impurities, and liver and kidney difficulties appear.” CDF 345 (Letter 9, 1887)
OLIVES
“Olives may be so prepared as to be eaten with good results with every meal. The advantages sought by the use of butter may be obtained by the eating of properly prepared olives. The oil in olives relieves constipation, and for consumptives, and for those who have inflamed, irritated stomachs, it is better than any drug. As a food it is better than any oil coming secondhand from animals.” CDF 345 (7 T 134) 1902
POTATOES
“We do not think fried potatoes are healthful, for there is more or less grease or butter used in preparing them. Good baked or boiled potatoes served with cream and a sprinkling of salt are the most healthful. The remnants of Irish and sweet potatoes are prepared with a little cream and salt and rebaked, and not fried; they are excellent.” CDF 323 (Letter 322, 1905)
BEANS
“Another very simple yet wholesome dish, is beans boiled or baked. Dilute a portion of them with water, add milk or cream.* and make a broth.” CDF 323 (2 T 603) 1871
*milk and cream substitute- nondairy milk coming from soya, almonds or cashew nuts.
BREAD The Staff of Life
“Bread should be thoroughly baked, inside and out. The health of the stomach demands that it be light and dry. Bread is the real staff of life, and therefore every cook should excel in making it.” CDF 315 (MS 34, 1899)
Zwieback
“Zwieback, or twice-baked bread, is one of the most easily digested and most palatable of foods. Let ordinary raised breads be cut in slices and dried in a warm oven till the last trace of moisture disappears. Then let it be browned slightly all the way through. In a dry place this bread can be kept much longer than ordinary bread, and if reheated before using, it will be as fresh as when new.” CDF 317
Old Bread Preferable To Fresh
“Bread which is two or three days old is more healthful than new bread. Bread dried in the oven is one of the most wholesome articles of diet.” CDF 317 (Letter 142, 1900)
Grains in Bread May Be Varied
“All wheat flour is not the best for a continuous diet. A mixture of wheat, oatmeal, and rye would be more nutritious than wheat with the nutrifying properties separated from it.” CDF 321
Sweet Breads
“Sweet breads and cookies we seldom have on our table. The less sweet foods that are eaten, the better; these cause disturbances in the stomach, and produce impatience and irritability in those who accustom themselves to their use.” CDF 321
PORRIDGE
“Grains used for porridge or ‘mush’ should have several hours’ cooking. But soft or liquid foods are less wholesome than dry foods, which require thorough mastication.” CDF 314
COMPLETE DIET
“The simple grains, fruits of the trees, vegetables, have all the nutritive properties necessary to make good blood. This a flesh diet cannot do.” CDF 322 (Letter 70, 1896)
“We are built up from that which we eat. Shall we strengthen the animal passions by eating animal food? In the place of educating the taste to love this gross diet, it is high time that we were to subsist upon fruits, grains, and vegetables.” CDF 322
FASTING
“The true fasting* which should be recommended to all, is abstinence from every stimulating kind of food, and the proper use of wholesome, simple food, which God has provided in abundance. Men need to think less about what they shall eat and drink of temporal food, and much more in regard to the food, and much more in regard to the food from heaven, that will give tone and vitality to the whole religious experience.” CDF 188 (MM 283; Letter 73, 1896)
As A Remedy For Disease
“There are some who would be benefited more by abstinence from food for a day or two every week than by any amount of treatment or medical advice. To fast one day a week would be of incalculable benefit to them.” CDF 189 (7 T 143)1902
When Christ was the most fiercely beset by temptation, He ate nothing.” CDF 186
Loma Linda University, Calif., USA – Fasting with water increases neutrophile (Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell or leukocyte which form an early line of defence against bacterial infections.) activity. Fasting with fruit or vegetable juice increases activity of neutrophil and natural killer cells
A Part of An Adequate Diet
“Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables constitute the diet chosen for us by our Creator. These foods prepared in as simple and natural manner as possible, are the most healthful and nourishing. They impart a strength, a power of endurance, and a vigor of intellect, that are not afforded by a more complex and stimulating diet.” CDF 310 (MH 296) 1905
THE EFFECTS OF MEAT EATING
“The intellectual, the moral, and the physical powers are depreciated by the habitual use of flesh meats. Meat eating deranges the system, beclouds the intellect, and blunts the moral sensibilities….”CDF 391 (2 T 64) 1868
EXERCISE
“Exercise in the open air should be prescribed as a life-giving necessity. And for such exercises there is nothing better than the cultivation of the soil. Let patients have flower beds to care for, or work to do in the orchard or vegetable garden. As they are encouraged to leave their rooms and spend time in the open air, cultivating flowers or doing some other light, pleasant work, their attention will be diverted from themselves and their sufferings.
The more the patient can be kept out of doors, the less care will he require. The more cheerful his surroundings, the more hopeful will he be. Shut up in the house, be it ever so elegantly furnished, he will grow fretful and gloomy. Surround him with the beautiful things of nature; place him where he can see the flowers growing and hear the birds singing, and his heart will break into song in harmony with the songs of the birds. Relief will come to body and mind.” MH 265
Walking For Exercise
“ Those who are feeble and indolent should not yield to their inclination to be inactive, thus depriving themselves of air and sunlight, but should practice exercising out of doors in walking or working in the garden. They will become very fatigued, but this will not injure them.
…It is not good policy to give up the use of certain muscles because of pain is felt when they are exercised. The pain is frequently caused by the effort of nature to give life and vigor to those parts that have become partially lifeless through inaction. The motion of these long-disused muscles will cause pain, because nature is awakening them to life.
Walking, in all cases where it is possible, is the best remedy for diseased bodies, because in this exercise all the organs of the body are brought into use.” CH 200
WATER
“In health and sickness, pure water is one of heaven’s choicest blessings. Its proper use promotes health. It is the beverage which God provided to quench the thirst of animals and man. Drunk freely, it helps to supply the necessities of the system and assists nature to resist disease. The external application of water is one of the easiest and most satisfactory ways of regulating the circulation of blood. A cold or cool bath is an excellent tonic. Warm baths open the pores and thus aid in the elimination of impurities. Both warm and neutral baths soothe the nerves and equalize the circulation.” MH 237
***Upon waking up in the morning take 2 glasses of warm water. Thirty minutes before each meal take 2 glasses of water ( room temperature). Take 8-10 glasses of water everyday. You can also drink fresh coconut water (buko juice).
***Juices – carrot and bitter gourd ; apple and grape juices. Do not mix fruit and vegetable at the same timel
***Hotfoot baths, hot fomentations, water therapy have saved lives from pneumonia and other fatal diseases
SUNLIGHT
“If you would have your homes sweet and inviting, make them bright with air and sunshine. Remove your heavy curtains, open the windows, throw back the blinds, and enjoy the rich sunlight, even if it be at the expense of the colors of your carpets. The precious sunlight may fade your carpet, but I will give healthful color to the cheeks of your children. If you have God’s presence and possess earnest, loving hearts, a humble home, made bright with air and sunlight, and cheerful with the welcome of unselfish hospitality, will be to your family and to the weary traveler a heaven below.”---2 T 527(1870) CH196
**Sunlight – stimulates vitamin D in your skin to activate it into vitamin D3, which will absorb calcium in the small intestine. Vitamin D together with calcium fights cancer.
TEMPERANCE
“True temperance teaches us to abstain entirely from that which is injurious, and to use judiciously only healthful and nutritious articles of food.” Health Reformer, April, 1877
Coffee, tea, chocolate, spices, meat, tobacco, alcohol, and drugs are injurious abstain from them.
AIR
“In the building of houses it is especially important to secure thorough ventilation and plenty of sunlight. Let there be a current of air and an abundance of light in every room in the house. Sleeping rooms should be so arranged as to have a free circulation of air day and night.” MH 274, 275
REST
“Some make themselves sick by overwork. For these, rest, freedom from care, and a spare diet, are essential to restoration of health. To those who are brain weary and nervous because of continual labor and close confinement, a visit to the country, where they can live a simple, carefree life, coming in close contact with the things of nature, will be most helpful. Roaming through the fields and the woods, picking the flowers, listening to the songs of the birds, will do far more than any other agency toward their recovery.” MH 236, 237
TRUST IN GOD
“The mechanism of the human body cannot be fully understood; it presents mysteries that baffle the most intelligent. It is not as the result of a mechanism, which, once set in motion, continues its work, that the pulse beats and breath follows breath. In God we live and move and have our being. The beating heart, the throbbing pulse, every nerve and muscle in the living organism, is kept in order and activity by the power of an ever-present God.
The Bible shows us God in His high and holy place, not in a state of inactivity, not in silence and solitude, but surrounded by ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of holy beings, all waiting to do His will. Through these messengers He is in active communication with every part of His dominion. By His Spirit He is everywhere present. Through the agency of His Spirit and His angels He ministers to the children of men.
Above the distractions of the earth He sits enthroned; all things are open to His divine survey; and from His great and calm eternity He orders that which His providence sees best.” MH 417
Its takes only your faith in God and obedience to His Health Laws that the wonderful healing process of the body can take place. Of course your body will not be able to heal itself if upon your disobedience to nature’s laws you claim to have faith in God but in reality you work contrary to them. You eat as you please. Thus you pay the penalty of disobedience,-- disease and death, when you were suppose to enjoy health and happiness. The choice is yours and you have to do it now.
CDF –--- Counsels on Diet and Foods
CH ------ Counsel on Health
CTBH -- Christian Temperance & Bible Hygiene
MH ---- Ministry of Healing
RH ------ Review and Herald
2 T------- Testimonies for the Church vol 2 ( 1-9)