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MH 321.1

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The practice of eating but two meals a day is generally found a benefit to health; yet under some circumstances persons may require a third meal. This should, however, if taken at all, be very light, and of food most easily digested. “Crackers”—the English biscuit—or zwieback, and fruit, or cereal coffee, are the foods best suited for the evening meal.

Eating two meals a day is generally beneficial for health, though a very light third meal of easily digested food may be appropriate under certain circumstances. The paragraph makes direct empirical claims about the health effects of meal frequency and specific evening meal options.

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Eating two meals a day is generally beneficial for health, though a very light third meal of easily digested food may be appropriate under certain circumstances.

P1983 · Proposed principle — source review pending

C19830 · Eating only two meals a day is generally beneficial to health. Draft assessment available Open claim research →
C19831 · Crackers, zwieback, fruit, or cereal coffee are best suited for a light evening meal. Draft assessment available Open claim research →

MH 321.2

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Some are continually anxious lest their food, however simple and healthful, may hurt them. To these let me say, Do not think that your food will injure you; do not think about it at all. Eat according to your best judgment; and when you have asked the Lord to bless the food for the strengthening of your body, believe that He hears your prayer, and be at rest.

Anxiety regarding food should be replaced by balanced judgment, prayer, and peace of mind. Combines psychological and spiritual coping guidance with a general approach to eating.

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The chapter screening preserves the teaching above without assigning a scientific verdict.

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MH 321.3

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Because principle requires us to discard those things that irritate the stomach and impair health, we should remember that an impoverished diet produces poverty of the blood. Cases of disease most difficult to cure result from this cause. The system is not sufficiently nourished, and dyspepsia and general debility are the result. Those who use such a diet are not always compelled by poverty to do so, but they choose it through ignorance or negligence, or to carry out their erroneous ideas of reform.

An impoverished diet lacking sufficient nourishment produces poverty of the blood and difficult-to-cure conditions like dyspepsia and general debility. Contains explicit causal medical and nutritional claims regarding inadequate diets and specific health outcomes.

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An impoverished diet lacking sufficient nourishment produces poverty of the blood and difficult-to-cure conditions like dyspepsia and general debility.

P1985 · Proposed principle — source review pending

C19850 · An impoverished diet that insufficiently nourishes the body causes poverty of the blood, dyspepsia, and general debility. Draft assessment available Open claim research →