Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

[Testimonies for the Church 3:569, 570
(1875).] Our people are constantly retrograding
upon health reform. Satan sees that he cannot have
such a controlling power over them as he could if
appetite were indulged. Under the influence of
unhealthful food, the conscience becomes
stupefied, the mind becomes darkened, and its
susceptibility to impressions is blunted. But
because violated conscience is benumbed and
becomes insensible, the guilt of the transgressor is
not lessened.
Satan is corrupting minds and destroying souls
through his subtle temptations. Will our people see
and feel the sin of indulging perverted appetite?
Will they discard tea, coffee, flesh meats, and all
stimulating food, and devote the means expended
for these hurtful indulgences to spreading the truth?
These stimulants do only harm, and yet we see that
a large number of those who profess to be
Christians are using tobacco. These very men will
deplore the evil of intemperance, and while
speaking against the use of liquors, will eject the
juice of tobacco. While a healthy state of mind
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