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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 25, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 26, No. 8.

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Health. No. 2.

By H. S. LAY, M. D.

ThE ways and methods in which people violate the laws of health are very numerous. A large portion of their every-day habits and customs traverse these laws, or in other words, are direct violations of them. Persons of all ages, and of both sexes, violate them. Even the habits and regimen imposed on children in their infancy are contraventive of the laws that govern their beings. And in their future training they are educated to unphysiological and unhygienic habits, many of which may be found in the direction of their dietetics.
In the first place, the food in and of itself, which is used by the great mass of the people of the present day is unhealthful, predisposing and exciting the system to disease, and causing the appetite to become morbid, and to clamor for those things which the system does not demand, and which, when indulged in, in many cases lead to ruinous consequences.
Secondly, the food is taken without regard to the time when it should be taken, and with a frequency that is very detrimental to the organs of digestion, not giving them time for that rest and repose that nature demands they should have, causing these organs to be overworked and fatigued, laying the foundation for disease, undermining the constitution, and breaking up and destroying the integrity of the vital tissues.
Thirdly, the amount of food taken is regulated, not from any moral consideration, or from the necessities of the system, but with reference to satisfying the demands of a perverted and vitiated appetite; in many instances putting more food into the stomach than can be healthfully disposed of, thus clogging the digestive organs, and causing them to labor excessively hard, and at a great disadvantage; and not having power enough in and of themselves to perform their arduous task, other portions of the system are called upon to render assistance, and are thus robbed of the very means which are needed to carry on the other functions of the body as nature designed they should be.
H. S. LAY, M. D. Dansville, N. Y.