Comment – Ellen White does not distinguish cream from milk so I have put cream with milk in Graham’s writings. He rightly limits the use of these products, as does Ellen White. Cream is only marginally less objectionable than butter.

Fish should be from the ocean or pure water.

Page 502-1274 – “fish, …. recently taken from the ocean, or river of pure water, .... are the only kind ... which men who use animal food should ever taste”

Score – Significant

Why 66 – Fish (What 65)

Fish are less exciting than red meat.

Page 502-1274 – “The flesh of such fish is less exciting and also less nourishing than the flesh of ox and sheep”

Score - Unverified

Scaled fish (no crustaceans) are the safest to eat.

Page 502-1273 – “Concerning fish, the Mosaic regulations are strictly correct.. Fish with scales recently taken from the ocean, or river of pure water, .... are the only kind ... which men who use animal food should ever taste”

Page 503-1275 – “In regard to shell-fish.....they should never be eaten.”

Score - Minor

Page 443 –1100 - “If you would live long, live moderately, avoid …. a great deal of …. eggs,”

Score – Significant

Why 67 – Eggs (What 67) Eggs are exciting.

Page 443-1100 - “avoid stimulating, heating diet, such as a great deal of …. eggs,”

Page 510-1298 -"Eggs are somewhat more animalized than milk, and perhaps rather more exciting to the system.”

Score – Unverified

Page 510–1298 – “(eggs if eaten at all should be) taken raw or slightly cooked.” Comment – There is a danger of salmonella infections in uncooked eggs.

Score - Unverified

Why 68 – Cooking eggs (What 68) Cooked eggs are hard to digest.

Page 510–1298 – “but when they are so much cooked as to become hard.... they require a vigorous stomach to digest them without oppression.”

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Page 443-1100 - “If you would live long, live moderately, and avoid …. a great deal of …. chocolate,”

Comment – It is hard to say whether it means that all chocolate is unhealthy or whether only a large amount is unhealthy.

Appendix 3 – Lectures on the Science of Human Life

Sylvester Graham

Score – Minor

Why 69 – Chocolate (What 69) Chocolate is stimulating and heating.

Page 443-1100 - “avoid stimulating, heating diet, such as a great deal of …..chocolate,”

Score - Unverified

Page 499-1262 – “The Mosaic regulations most strictly prohibit the use of blood as human aliment.”

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Why 70 – Blood (What 70)

Blood brings out the destructive propensities and reduces morals.

Page 499-1262 - “when man devours blood he is both morally and physiologically affected by it; his moral sensibilities and sympathies are deadened, and his selfish and destructive propensities are increased and rendered more vehement and ferocious.”

Score - Unverified

What 71 – Variety and Mixing of Foods W 29 A 130 C 55 (J 52)

Do not mix foods or have a great variety of foods.

Page 304–747 – “it might with much propriety be urged against too great a variety of food, and favor simplicity.”

Page 344-858 – “a mixed diet of vegetable and animal food, (is not a good diet)”

Score - Unverified

Why 71 - Mixing Foods (What 71)

The stomach has difficulty in digesting different foods.

Page 344-858 – “It is also true as a general physiological law, that where the stomach is accustomed to a mixed diet of vegetable and animal food, .... the power of the stomach to digest vegetable substances is diminished.”

Score - Unverified

Why 72 – Compound Foods (What 71) Combining foods shortens life.

Page 444-1105 – “Plain, simple food only, promotes moderation and longevity, while compound and luxurious foods shorten life.”

Score – Unverified

Why 73 - Concentrated and Variety of Food (What 71)

Eating concentrated foods causes death from a broken down digestive system.

Page 303-747 – “in the course of nine months, runs through a very great variety of dishes, nearly every one of which is a compound of concentrated substances, and finally dies of ....a broken down digestive powers; …. I have known many individuals who subsist for years on coarse, unbolted wheat-meal bread and water alone."

Score – Unverified

Appendix 3 – Lectures on the Science of Human Life

Sylvester Graham

Page 504-128 – “Soups are (not healthy).”

Score – Unverified

Why 74 – Soup (What 72)

Soup is too complicated to be good, and as it is not chewed it damages the teeth and digestion. Page 504-1281 – “Soups are altogether to complicated to be healthy. Beside, it may be laid down as a general and very important rule, ....... that in proportion as artificial preparations of food render the function of mastication unnecessary, they are injurious to the teeth, and detrimental to all the alimentary organs, and to the physiological interests of the whole system.”

Score – Unverified

Why 75 – Tooth Decay (What 72)

All prepared food, concentrated, soft, or seasoned foods irritate the nervous system and cause tooth decay.

Page 286-709 – “Almost all artificial preparations of food, therefore, and especially those connected with the use of fire, are necessarily more or less injurious to the teeth, and cause them to become diseased and painful.”

Page 288-713 – “Culinary preparations, as a general fact, lead us to masticate our food too little, to swallow it to fast, and to eat too much; and these are all very serious evils in relation to the teeth.” Page 289-714 – “The most extensive and pernicious cause of disease to the teeth, are those which act on them through the general organic economy, and cause a general morbid irritability of the nervous system,…. If the food is soft and hot, or concentrated or high-seasoned, or otherwise vicious, and mastication is neglected, ... decay will follow,”

Comment – Only soft foods may contribute to tooth decay.

Score – Verified

What 73 - Broth

Broth is not good for health.

Page 505-1281 – “Fresh broth” (is not good.)

Score - Unverified

Why 76 – Broth (What 73)

Broth irritates and debilitates the digestive organs.

Page 504-1281 – “We have seen that every kind of concentrated aliment is more or less injurious to the stomach, and through it to the whole system. Fresh broth, therefore, always serve to vex and irritate and to debilitate the digestive organs, and should be particularly avoided by those whose digestive powers are feeble.”

Score - Unverified

By slowly changing the diet the body will adapt to the new diet.

Page 343-855 - “if the flesh diet be commenced by degrees, and regularly continued, the stomach will soon become adapted to it”

Score – Minor

Why 77 – Changing Diet (What 74)

When there is a radical change in diet, there is a change in the proportions of the different digestive juices to accommodate the change.

Page 343-855 – “the human stomach, if it be regularly supplied with an exclusively vegetable diet, will soon become adapted to such a diet, and secrete a solvent fluid most perfectly qualified for the