I have said to myself: I do not wonder at it. It is your manner of preparing food that makes it so unpalatable. To eat such food would certainly give one the dyspepsia. These poor cooks, and those who have to eat their food, will gravely tell you that the health reform does not agree with them. The stomach has not power to convert poor, heavy, sour bread into good; but this poor bread will convert a healthy stomach into a diseased one. Those who eat such food know that they are failing in strength. Is there not a cause? Some of these persons call themselves health reformers, but they are not. They do not know how to cook. They prepare cakes, potatoes, and graham bread, but there is the same round, with scarcely a variation, and the system is not strengthened. They seem to think the time wasted which is devoted to obtaining a thorough experience in the preparation of healthful, palatable food. Some act as though that which they eat were lost, and anything they could toss into the stomach to fill it would do as well as food prepared with so much painstaking. It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, we fail to be nourished and built up as we would be if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach. We are composed of what we eat. In order to make a good quality of blood, we must have the right kind of food, prepared in a right manner. {1T 681.3}

Jeg har ofte tænkt ved mig selv: "Det er ikke underligt at de ikke kan spise den slags brød." Det er husmødrene selv som er skyld i at brødet bliver smagløst. De, som spiser en sådan mad, kan ikke undgå at få dårlig fordøjelse. Men de, som laver så dårlig brød og de som spiser det, er flinke til at fortælle med stort alvor, at de ikke kan klare at leve efter sundhedsreformen. Maven magter ikke at fordøje tungt, surt og dårlig brød. Den slags brød vil gøre en frisk mave sygelig. De, som spiser denne dårlige mad, mærker at de bliver slappe og føler sig dårlige. Er der ikke god grund til det? Nogen af dem, som laver en så dårlig mad, plejer at regne sig som sundhedsreformens venner. De laver kager, koger kartofler og bager grahamsbrød. Men det er hele tiden de samme retter. De varierer ikke kosten og kroppen får ikke tilstrækkelig næring. De synes at (682) mene at det er spildt tid at lære sig at lave sund og velsmagende mad.] Mange spiser, som om at det de har spist er gået tabt og hvad som helst de kunne fylde i maven, kan gøre det lige så godt, som mad der er tilberedt med megen omhu. Det er vigtigt at vi synes om den mad vi spiser. Hvis vi ikke kan dette, men bare spiser det, får vi ikke næring og bliver bygget op som vi ville, hvis vi kunne nyde den mad vi får i maven. Vi er sat sammen af hvad vi spiser. For at få en god blodkvalitet, må vi få den rigtige slags mad, tilberedt på en rigtig måde. [Råd og vink side 211, 257]