GOOD HEALTH | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 12, 1878

GOOD HEALTH.

Proper Diet for Man.

CHANGE OF DIET.

PEOPLE who become convinced of the truth of the positions taken in the preceding articles sometimes lose confidence in them when they attempt to abandon the use of animal food and adopt a vegetable diet. The reason of this is that they attempt to make the change too abruptly. When the system has been long accustomed to the use of meat or any other stimulant, some little time is required before the system can resume its natural tone after being deprived of it. It is best to make the change gradually. At first, use animal food in less quantity; then use it less frequently; and, finally, abandon it altogether. It is quite possible that some very aged people who have been accustomed to its use for many years should never be advised to abandon it entirely.

CONCLUSION.

This investigation might be prolonged to almost any length, but we have constantly aimed at brevity and conciseness, and must now bring the subject to a close. As we have seen, the invariable testimony of anatomy, of physiology, and of the united experience of ancient and modern nations, has been decidedly in favor of a purely vegetable diet for man, and entire abstinence from such articles of food as can only be obtained by taking the life of any living creature.

These views are obtaining favor and acceptance very rapidly among the thinking, reasoning classes of people. Almost every community contains one or more vegetarians, and a single organization of such persons numbers upwards of twenty thousand. The reform is rapidly advancing in strength and numbers. Medical colleges have been established with regular charters, and a score of institutions for the treatment of the sick by a reform in diet, as the principal means, have been put in successful operation, and are performing astonishing cures of many of the most chronic and hopeless disorders.