Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

It is our wisdom to prepare simple,
inexpensive, healthful foods. Many of our people
are poor, and healthful foods are to be provided
that can be supplied at prices that the poor can
afford to pay. It is the Lord’s design that the
poorest people in every place shall be supplied
with inexpensive, healthful foods. In many places
industries for the manufacture of these foods are to
be established. That which is a blessing to the work
in one place will be a blessing in another place
where money is very much harder to obtain.
God is working in behalf of His people. He
does not desire them to be without resources. He is
bringing them back to the diet originally given to
man. Their diet is to consist of the foods made
from the materials He has provided. The materials
principally used in these foods will be fruits and
grains and nuts, but various roots will also be used.
The profits on these foods are to come
principally from the world, rather than from the
Lord’s people. God’s people have to sustain His
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