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Alcohol Versus Food

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 28, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 43.

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Alcohol Versus Food

THE TRUTH ABOUT ALCOHOL
1. A certain quantity will produce a certain effect at first, but it requires more and more to produce the same effect when the drug is used habitually.
2. When used habitually, it is likely to induce an uncontrollable desire for more in ever-increasing amounts.
3. After its habitual use a sudden total abstinence is likely to cause a serious derangement of the central nervous system.
4. Alcohol is oxidized rapidly in the body.
5. Alcohol, not being useful, is not stored in the body.
6. Alcohol is a product of decomposition of food in the presence of a scarcity of oxygen.
7. Alcohol is an excretion, and, in common with all excretions, is poisonous. It may be beneficial to certain phases of disease, but is never beneficial to the healthy body.
8. All medical men advise healthy persons to avoid alcohol altogether.
9. All connoisseurs advise people to avoid taking alcohol into the empty stomach.
10. The young, developing individual is always advised to abstain from alcohol.
11. The use of alcohol, in common with narcotics in general, is followed by a reaction.
12. The use of alcohol is followed by a decrease in the activity of the muscle cells, and the brain cells.
— Winfield S. Hall, M. D., in The Union Signal.
THE TRUTH ABOUT FOOD
1. A certain quantity will produce a certain effect at first, and the same quantity will always produce the same effect in the healthy body.
2. The habitual use of a food never induces an uncontrollable desire for it in ever-increasing amounts.
3. After its habitual use a sudden total abstinence never causes any derangement of the central nervous system.
4. All foods are oxidized slowly in the body.
5. All foods, being useful, are stored in the body.
6. All foods are products of constructive activity of protoplasm in the presence of abundant oxygen.
7. All foods are formed by nature for nourishment, and are by nature wholesome and always beneficial to the healthy body, though they may injure the body in certain phases of disease.
8. No medical men advise healthy persons to avoid food.
9. People are universally advised to take food into the empty stomach.
10. The young, developing individual is always advised to partake bountifully of food.
11. The use of foods is followed by no reaction.
12. The use of food is followed by an increase in the activity of the muscle and brain cells.