Intemperance Causes Suffering—Many are so devoted to intemperance that they will not change their course of indulging in gluttony under any considerations. They would sooner sacrifice health and die prematurely than to restrain their intemperate appetite. And there are many who are ignorant of the relation their eating and drinking has to health. Could such be enlightened, they might have moral courage to deny the appetite and eat more sparingly and of that food alone which was healthful, and by their own course of action save themselves a great amount of suffering.—Spiritual Gifts 4a:130 (1864). (Counsels on Diet and Foods, 158.) {2MCP 511.1}

(511) Umådeholdenhed skaber lidelse — Mange er så afhængige af sit umådehold at de ikke under nogen omstændigheder vil tåle indskrænkninger i sit frådseri. De vil heller ofre sundheden og dø før tiden end at tæmme appetitten. Og mange er uvidende om de virkninger spisevanerne har på sundheden. Hvis disse mennesker fik oplysning om sundhedsreformen, ville de måske have moralsk mod nok til at fornægte appetitten og spise mere sparsomt og blot af sund mad. Da ville de spare sig selv for en hel del lidelser.— 4SG 130, 1864. (Råd og vink, 126.)