We advise you to change your habits of living; but while you do this we caution you to move understandingly. I am acquainted with families who have changed from a meat diet to one that is impoverished. Their food is so poorly prepared that the stomach loathes it; and such have told me that the health reform did not agree with them, that they were decreasing in physical strength. Here is one reason why some have not been successful in their efforts to simplify their food. They have a poverty-stricken diet. Food is prepared without painstaking, and there is a continual sameness. There should not be many kinds at any one meal, but all meals should not be composed of the same kinds of food without variation. Food should be prepared with simplicity, yet with a nicety which will invite the appetite. You should keep grease out of your food. It defiles any preparation of food you may make. Eat largely of fruits and vegetables. {2T 63.1}

(63) Vi tilråder jer at gøre en forandring i jeres livsvaner; men når I gør dette, råder vi jer til at gå frem på en forstandig måde. Jeg kender familier, som er gået over fra kødspiser til en udmarvet kost. Deres mad er så dårligt tilberedt, at maven afskyr den og sådanne mennesker har sagt til mig, at helsereformen ikke passede for dem og at deres fysiske kræfter aftog. Her har vi een af grundene til, at nogle ikke har været heldige i deres bestræbelser for at gøre deres kost enklere. De bruger en mangelfuld kost. Maden tilberedes uden omhu og der er en stadig ensformighed. Der bør ikke være mange slags retter til eet måltid, men ikke alle måltider bør være sammensat af samme slags fødemidler uden nogen variation. Maden bør tilberedes enkelt, men samtidig velsmagende, så den tiltaler appetitten. I bør undgå fedt i jeres kost. Fedt fordærver enhver ret, som I måtte tillave. Spis rigeligt med frugt og grøntsager.