Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

I am acquainted with families who have
changed from a meat diet to one that is
impoverished. Their food is so poorly prepared that
the stomach loathes it, and such have told me that
the health reform did not agree with them; that they
were decreasing in physical strength. Here is one
reason why some have not been successful in their
efforts to simplify their food. They have a povertystricken
diet. Food is prepared without painstaking,
and there is a continual sameness. There should not
be many kinds at one meal, but all meals should
not be composed of the same kinds of food without
variation. Food should be prepared with simplicity,
yet with a nicety which will invite the appetite.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:63 (1868).
An Impoverished Diet
[Testimonies for the Church 2:367, 368
(1869).] I have spoken of the importance of the
quantity and quality of food being in strict
accordance with the laws of health. But we would
not recommend an impoverished diet. I have been
shown that many take a wrong view of the health
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