Appendix 6 – Laws of Life

James Caleb Jackson

Why 51 – Meat 2 (What 59)

Animal foods excite the nervous system.

1862 Vol. 5 page 71.1 – “one of our chief objections to the use of animal food, is that its effects on the nervous system are unnaturally excited.”

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Why 52 – Meat 3 (What 59) Meat eating dulls the senses

1862 Vol. 5 page 98.3 – “use of flesh-meats, …. help to break down the discriminative power of smell, sight, hearing, and touch.”

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Why 53 – Meat 4 (What 59)

Meat is prone to food poisoning and more so in the summer.

1862 Vol. 5 page130.2 – “There is more fermentation, slower digestion, and stronger liability to putrescence in the stomach and bowels, of flesh meats eaten as food in hot weather, than in cold;” Comment – The decay occurs outside the stomach and it is not fermentation, but the principle is correct.

Score - Verified

1863 Vol. 6 page 2.3 – “A scrofulous child, permitted to eat pork,” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Score - Minor

1863 Vol. 6 page 1.1- “partake of oleaginous materials. Butter is one of them, and used largely; fat pork in another, and lard another. …. under circumstances unfavorable to health to take on diseases of the mucous membrane.” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Page 23.1 – “avoiding the use of …. greases.”

Score – Significant

Why 54 – Animal Fat (What 61) Fat reduces resistance to disease.

1863 Vol. 6 page 1.1- “partake of oleaginous materials. Butter is one of them, and used largely; fat pork in another, and lard another. …. in more or less use, the condition of the blood, of the fleshy tissue and the nervous system of children are such as greatly to predispose them, under circumstances unfavorable to health to take on diseases of the mucous membrane….. are therefore liable to take on inflammatory diseases, ” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Comments – If the fat intake is too low, the immune system falls.

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1862 Vol. 5 page 71.1 – “Olive oil for purposes of cooking is better than butter; but butter is vastly better than hog's lard,”

1862 Vol. 5 page 71.1 – “I have no objection to healthy persons eating butter which is not salted, in moderate quantities,”

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Why 55 – Butter (What 63)

As it is more concentrated, butter should not be as freely used as cream and milk.

1862 Vol. 5 page 71.1 – “the chief objection in its (butter) use over the use of cream or milk is that it is concentrated, and one may readily partake too freely of it.”

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1862 Vol. 5 page 71.1 – “I have no objection to healthy persons eating butter which is not salted, in moderate quantities, - the chief objection in its (butter) use over the use of cream or milk is that it is concentrated, and one may readily partake too freely of it.”

Comment – It is better to restrict the use of cream as well as butter.

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1863 Vol. 6 page 1.1- “So also sugar or syrup is used largely, …. under circumstances unfavorable to health to take on diseases of the mucous membrane.” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Score – Significant

Why 56 – Sugar 1 (What 65) Sugar is empty calories.

1862 Vol. 5 page 86.2 – “It should always be remembers that sugar is not particularly nutritive, and, to use common language, thickens the blood. Persons who eat largely of sugar should be active in habit.”

Comment – There is no such thing as thickening the blood, but the principles are correct.

Score - Verified

Why 57 – Sugar 2 (What 65)

Excessive use of sugar reduces immunity.

1863 Vol. 6 page 1.1- “So also sugar or syrup is used largely, …. in more or less use, the condition of the blood, of the fleshy tissue and the nervous system of children are such as greatly to predispose them, under circumstances unfavorable to health to take on diseases of the mucous membrane….. Such persons, more likely than not …. are therefore liable to take on inflammatory diseases, ” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Score – Verified

Appendix 6 – Laws of Life

James Caleb Jackson

1863 Vol. 6 page 1.1- “and so, as a condiment, is common salt. …. under circumstances unfavorable to health to take on diseases of the mucous membrane.” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 -

Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Page 23.1 – “No man ever saw a dog eat salt. .... The use of common salt .... is amongst the strongest predisposing causes of disease”

Comment – Ellen White in limiting, but not banning the use of salt is more correct.

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Why 58 – Salt 1 (What 66) Salt reduces immunity.

1863 Vol. 6 page 1.1- “as a condiment, is common salt. .... in more or less use, the condition of the blood, of the fleshy tissue and the nervous system of children are such as greatly to predispose them, under circumstances unfavorable to health to take on diseases of the mucous membrane….. and are therefore liable to take on inflammatory diseases, ” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

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Why 59 – Salt 2 (What 66) Salt can dull the senses.

1862 Vol. 5 page 98.3 – “salt, …. help to break down the discriminative power of smell, sight, hearing, and touch.”

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Why 60 - Salt 3 (What 66)

Salt damages the stomach, liver, nervous system and brain.

1862 Vol. 5 page 114.1 – “one of the most powerful provocative to such derangement of the stomach, liver, and bowels are productive of sick headache from the reactive conditions of the organic nervous system and the brain, is common salt. ... it is one of the most virulent and effective poisons, productive of great injury,”

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1863 Vol. 6 page 3.1 – “Such persons, more likely than not….eat … high seasoned foods, and are therefore liable to take on inflammatory diseases,” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Score – Minor

Why 61 – Spices (What 67) Spices dull the senses.

1862 Vol. 5 page 98.3 – “Highly seasoned food, …. constant and uninterrupted use of condiments - salt, pepper, spices, etc. - all help to break down the discriminative power of smell, sight, hearing, and touch.”

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What 68 – Two Meals a Day W 56 G 77 A 134 C 46 K 68

From fifteen months on it is better to eat only two meals a day.

1863 Vol. 6 page 73.3 – “It has been proven by innumerable experiments that children from fifteen months old and onward can live and thrive admirably on two meals a day of simple food, never eating anything between meals”

Appendix 6 – Laws of Life

James Caleb Jackson

Page 90.2 – “eats, but two meals a day”

Page 107.1 – “eating but two-meals a day (the first, say between six and seven in the morning, and the second between two and three in the afternoon),”

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Why 62 – Two Meals a Day 1 (What 68)

Blood and nervous energy are diverted to the stomach after eating.

1862 Vol. 5 page 36.3 – “Thinkers are not aware how often they interrupt their mental processes, break in upon, and spoil their intellectual success, by lowering the electrical, or magnetic condition of the brain, through introduction of food into the stomach. The moment a person eats, the blood and nervous energy have to be determined away from the brain to the stomach for digestive purposes.”

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Why 63 – Two Meals a Day 2 (What 68)

Children are healthier not eating from 1pm to 7am next day.

1862 Vol. 5 page71.2 – “children will uniformly be healthier by such practice (going from-1 pm to 7 am without food) than they will to eat late hearty suppers.”

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1863 Vol. 6 page 14.3 – “It is the irregular eating habits between meals which makes us a nation of gluttons,”

Score – Minor

Why 64 – Regularity of Eating (What 69)

Eating between meals causes us to overeat of poor quality food.

1863 Vol. 6 page14.3 – “It is the irregular eating habits between meals which makes us a nation of gluttons, and it is owing much more to this habit than to the quality or quantity of our food, that so many of us are dyspeptic.”

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What 70 – Eating before Bed W 58 R 23 G 78 A 131 C 45 K 70

There should be no food in the stomach when sleeping.

1863 Vol. 6 page 160.2 – “the last meal comes so early as three o'clock in the afternoon.”

Score – Minor

Why 65 – Eating before Bed 1 (What 70) The stomach needs to rest at night.

1862 Vol. 5 page 37.1 – “Retiring early (the last meal at 3 PM), and with his food so far digested as to allow the stomach to cease its activities,”

1863 Vol. 6 page 160.2 - “The stomach will have time to rest and react thoroughly from its over taxation. But if, on the other hand he takes light supper, the effect upon his stomach in its exhausted state is to irritate it:

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Why 66 – Eating before Bed 2 (What 70)

Assimilation of food only occurs when asleep.