Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

healthy condition and can readily perform its task.
There should be no delay in reform. Efforts should
be made to preserve carefully the remaining
strength of the vital forces, by lifting off every
overtaxing burden. The stomach may never recover
health, but a proper course of diet will save further
debility, and many will recover more or less, unless
they have gone very far in gluttonous selfmurder.—Spiritual
Gifts 4a:130, 131 (1864).
A Harmful Combination
[Testimonies for the Church 2:368-370 (1869).]
In regard to milk and sugar: I know of persons who
have become frightened at the health reform and
said they would have nothing to do with it, because
it has spoken against a free use of these things.
Changes should be made with great care, and we
should move cautiously and wisely. We want to
take that course which will recommend itself to the
intelligent men and women of the land. Large
quantities of milk and sugar eaten together are
injurious. They impart impurities to the system....
Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the working of
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