This document discusses foods including nuts, nut foods, eggs, and cheese. It provides guidance on healthful eating according to Ellen G. White's counsel. For nuts and nut foods, it recommends eating them in moderation and combining them with grains and fruits. It warns against using too large a proportion of nuts. For eggs, it says their use will become unsafe as disease increases in animals, and they should not be eaten in excess. It also says cheese should never be introduced into the stomach and is unfit for food.

1. Proteins
COUNSELS ON DIET AND
FOODS
by Ellen G. White
Prepared by: Bernabe J. Apare
MMA Faculty Devotional 3/15/2021

2. Part 1 : Nut and Nut Foods
Part 2 : Eggs
Part 3 : Cheese

3. Nuts
and
Nut Foods

4. NUT AND NUT FOODS
Part of an Adequate Diet
PART
1
Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables constitute the diet
chosen for us by our Creator. These foods, prepared
in as simple and natural a manner as possible, are the
most healthful and nourishing. They impart a strength,
a power of endurance, and a vigor of intellect, that are
not afforded by a more complex and stimulating diet.
In grains, fruit, vegetables, and nuts are to be found
all the food elements that we need. If we will come to
the Lord in simplicity of mind, He will teach us how
to prepare wholesome food free from the taint of
flesh meat.

5. NUT AND NUT FOODS
Nut foods to be Carefully Prepared and Inexpensive
PART
1
Nuts and nut foods are coming largely into use to take the
place of flesh meats. With nuts may be combined grains,
fruits, and some roots, to make foods that are healthful and
nourishing. Care should be taken, however, not to use too
large a proportion of nuts. Those who realize ill effects from
the use of nut foods may find the difficulty removed by
attending to this precaution.
The foods used should correspond to the climate. Some
foods suitable for one country would not do at all in another
place. And the nut foods should be made as inexpensive as
possible, so that they can be procured by the poor.

6. NUT AND NUT FOODS
Proportions of Nuts to other Ingredients
PART
1
Careful attention should be given to the proper use of nut foods. Some kinds of
nuts are not so wholesome as others… These foods should not be used too
freely… As combined in large proportions with other articles in some of the recipes
given, they make the food so rich that the system cannot properly assimilate it.
I have been instructed that the nut foods are often used unwisely, that too large a
proportion of nuts is used, that some nuts are not as wholesome as others.
Almonds are preferable to peanuts; but peanuts, in limited quantities, may be used
in connection with grains to make nourishing and digestible food. One-tenth to
one-sixth part of nuts would be sufficient, varied according to combinations.

7. Eggs

8. EGGS
PART
2
Use of Egg will become more and more Unsafe!
… in families of children who are given to sensual habits, eggs should not be used.
But in the case of persons whose blood-making organs are feeble,—especially if
other foods to supply the needed elements cannot be obtained,—milk and eggs
should not be wholly discarded. Great care should be taken, however, to obtain
milk from healthy cows and eggs from healthy fowls, that are well fed and well
cared for; and the eggs should be so cooked as to be most easily digested.
The diet reform should be progressive. As disease in animals increases, the use of
milk and eggs will become more and more unsafe. An effort should be made to
supply their place with other things that are healthful and inexpensive. The people
everywhere should be taught how to cook without milk and eggs, so far as
possible, and yet have their food wholesome and palatable.

9. EGGS
PART
2
Not to be classed with Flesh Meat
Milk, eggs, and butter should not be classed with flesh meat. In some cases
the use of eggs is beneficial. The time has not come to say that the use of
milk and eggs should be wholly discarded.... Let the diet reform be
progressive. Let the people be taught how to prepare food without the use of
milk or butter. Tell them that the time will soon come when there will be no
safety in using eggs, milk, cream, or butter, because disease in animals is
increasing in proportion to the increase of wickedness among men. The time
is near when, because of the iniquity of the fallen race, the whole animal
creation will groan under the diseases that curse our earth. God will give His
people ability and tact to prepare wholesome food without these things. Let
our people discard all unwholesome recipes.

10. EGGS
PART
2
Exciting to Children
You should be teaching your children. You should be instructing them
how to shun the vices and corruptions of this age. Instead of this,
many are studying how to get something good to eat. You place upon
your tables butter, eggs, and meat, and your children partake of them.
They are fed with the very things that will excite their animal passions,
and then you come to meeting and ask God to bless and save your
children. HOW HIGH DO YOUR PRAYERS GO? You have a
work to do first! When you have done all for your children which God
has left for you to do, then you can with confidence claim the special
help that God has promised to give you.

11. EGGS
PART
2
Properties in Egg are Remedial Agencies; Guard Against Extremes
Do not go to extremes in regard to the health reform. Some of our people are
very careless in regard to health reform. But because some are far behind, you
must not, in order to be an example to them, be an extremist. You must not
deprive yourself of that class of food which makes good blood. Your devotion
to true principles is leading you to submit yourself to a diet which is giving you
an experience that will not recommend health reform. This is your danger.
When you see that you are becoming weak physically, it is essential for you to
make changes, and at once. Put into your diet something you have left out. It is
your duty to do this. Get eggs of healthy fowls. Use these eggs cooked or raw.
Drop them uncooked into the best unfermented wine you can find. This will
supply that which is necessary to your system. Do not for a moment suppose
that it will not be right to do this.

12. EGGS
PART
2
In Sanitarium Diets
While I would discard flesh meat as injurious, something less objectionable may be
used, and this is found in eggs. Do not remove milk from the table or forbid its being
used in the cooking of food. The milk used should be procured from healthy cows,
and should be sterilized.... But I wish to say that when the time comes that it is no
longer safe to use milk, cream, butter, and eggs, God will reveal this. No extremes in
health reform are to be advocated. Let your moderation be known unto all men.
“When a letter came to me from Cooranbong, saying that Doctor ---- was dying, I was
that night instructed that he must have a change of diet. A raw egg, taken two or three
times a day, would give the nourishment that he greatly needed.”

13. EGGS
PART
2
Failure to Replace Food Elements
While warnings have been given regarding the dangers of disease through butter, and the evil
of the free use of eggs by small children, yet we should not consider it a violation of principle
to use eggs from hens that are well cared for and suitably fed. Eggs contain properties that
are remedial agencies in counteracting certain poisons.
Some, in abstaining from milk, eggs, and butter, have failed to supply the system with proper
nourishment, and as a consequence have become weak and unable to work. Thus health
reform is brought into disrepute. The work that we have tried to build up solidly is confused
with strange things that God has not required, and the energies of the church are crippled.
But God will interfere to prevent the results of these too-strenuous ideas. The gospel is to
harmonize the sinful race. It is to bring the rich and poor together at the feet of Jesus.
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the articles of diet we now use,
such as milk and cream and eggs; but it is not necessary to bring upon ourselves perplexity
by premature and extreme restrictions. Wait until the circumstances demand it, and the Lord
prepares the way for it.—

14. Cheese

15. CHEESE
PART
3
Unfit for Food
Cheese should never be introduced into the stomach. Cheese is still more
objectionable; it is wholly unfit for food.
Many a mother sets a table that is a SNARE to her family. Flesh meats, butter, cheese,
rich pastry, spiced foods, and condiments are freely partaken of by both old and
young. These things do their work in deranging the stomach, exciting the nerves, and
enfeebling the intellect. The blood-making organs cannot convert such things into
good blood. The grease cooked in the food renders it difficult of digestion. The effect
of cheese is deleterious.

16. 1 CORINTHIANS 10:31
“Whether therefore ye
eat, or drink, or
whatsoever ye do, do
all to the glory of
God.”

17. Let’s READ!
THAT WHICH AT FIRST
SEEMS DIFFICULT, BY
CONSTANT REPETITION
GROWS EASY, UNTIL
RIGHT THOUGHTS AND
ACTIONS BECOME
HABITUAL.
- Mind, Character and Personality (MCP 666.3)