PRESCRIPTION DIETS

Senate Bill 1875 Supplement of Congressional Record.

"There resides in New York City an unassuming physician who has long since passed the period of research with animals and is actually treating and curing cancer in human beings. I have seen patients so far gone as the result of the ravages of cancer as to be beyond the pale of anything but miracles. These miracles are in fact being performed by Dr. Max Gerson, 667 Madison Ave., New York. To my mind it is important that Dr. Gerson train other doctors in his technique so that hundreds of thousands may be treated rather than the limited number that he is personally able to attend." Testimony of Dr. Samuel A. Markel.

Statement by Dr. Gerson: "The Gerson diet was first developed to relieve my own migraine condition. Then it was successfully applied to patients with allergic conditions. . By chance a patient with tuberculosis was cured following the use of the diet. It was highly favorable in arthritis, heart disease, chronic sinusitis, ulcers, colitis, high blood pressure, psoriasis, schlerosis, and most striking results were seen in the restoration of liver and gall bladder, which could not be influenced by other methods up to the present. The great number of chronic diseases which responded to the dietetic treatment showed clearly that the human body lost part of its resistance and healing power as man left the way of natural nutrition. The fundamental damage starts with the use of artificial fertilizers, but we can regain the lost defense and healing power if we return as close as possible to the laws of nature, as created."

"Senator Claude Pepper heard testimony by many patients who had passed into the metastasis stage and had been given up by other doctors, and had then been cured by Dr. Gerson’s diet treatment. He asked; in the case of a girl who had suffered from cancer of the spinal cord: "By your diet treatment you cured the cancer?" Dr. Gerson answered: "We killed the tumor, yes, otherwise the muscles could not have been restored. That is the only case (of tumor of the spine) now arrested in 2000 years of medical history."

Dr. Miley testified: "I have seen all of these cases many times. . . . I went over to see his tuberculosis cases, and some of his results were very, very remarkable. He had several bronchial fistulas healed which had no right to heal and he mentioned at that time the possibility of using this in malignant disease. Both Dr. Bailey and I smiled skeptically, thinking it was rather fantastic, so I picked out the worst case I could find, supposed to live three to five months. She has remained improved, and that is now years since that occurred. . .

"The Gerson diet is quite harmless and consists of low salt, low fat, no animal protein and high carbohydrates, plus frequent injections of liver extract and adequate amounts of minerals and vitamins, large amounts of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables, and does not allow any meat, milk, alcohol, tobacco or canned foods. Dr. Rudolph Kellar believes as a result of his investigation that this can well change the entire metabolism of the body in cancer patients. This new approach to cancer is fundamental, because it treats cancer as a systemic disease of abnormal chemistry of the whole body."

"The acute toxic symptoms often present in cancer patients can best be controlled by ultra-violet radiation, which is the best detoxicating agent known to modern medicine . . . This is extremely important in light of the recent demonstration that milk may contain the transmissible agent productive of malignant growth, possibly of a virus nature. . I have many cases where I could activate cancer with certain substances, then could make it all disappear. Then we gave a raw egg yolk. We know this was carcinogen too. I killed three patients when I gave them a little bit of egg yolk."

The book, Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther, gives the story of the case, of his son’s cancer of the brain and on page 139 of the Readers Digest of March 1949 it says:

"But on August 31 there was again a new leak in the bump, the white blood count was below 1000. The papilledema was high again and he seemed to be fading fast. Raymond Gram Swing told me about a doctor named Max Gerson who had achieved, remarkable arrestation of cancer and other illnesses by a therapy based on diet. Gerson is a perfectly authentic medical doctor, but "unorthodox" (which means he does not use drugs according to Medical Association Standards). My reaction was skeptical. Then I learned he had long experience with brain tumor cases. I went to see him and he showed me his records of tumors apparently cured. It still seemed to me inconceivable that so serious an ailment could be cleared up merely by diet.

"Gerson impressed me greatly as a human being, however. Dr. Draeger at first violently opposed Dr. Gerson’s claims but after all, Johnny was deteriorating fast and in any case the diet could do no harm. Those September days in the nursing home were grim at first. Johnny lay there pale and panting with misery. His blood count had slipped lower and lower and great bruises were on his arms and chest, caused by breakdown of capillaries, but within a week he was feeling, not worse, but better. The blood count rose steadily, the bruises were absorbed with extraordinary speed, the wound in the bulge healed, and the bump was going down, miracle of miracles. The Gerson diet is saltless and fatless, and protein is reduced to a minimum.

"During the next month Johnny was kept on a diet of fruits and vegetables, with a special soup made of parsley root, celery knob, leek and tomatoes. There were daily injections of liver extract and for a time the improvement in his general health was so evident that we were beside ourselves with joy. Johnny was going to recover after all. Now occurred the most remarkable thing.

Johnny set out to make up his lost school hours by tutoring. He passed the tests. Then he worsened sharply. Everybody but Gerson thought he must have a prompt operation. Gerson fought against operation because anesthesia would be fatal. So began the battle of the doctors, but early the day of the scheduled operation with freezing, the bump spontaneously opened itself. . . . Dr. Mount called me, his voice fairly choking with joy, saying he had successfully drained an abscess that went five centimeters into the brain.

"Now Johnny recovered with great leaps and bounds. He regained his confidence, studied hard, greeted his friends, laughed, and teased the nurses. The horrible, ferocious bump was entirely gone. . . . Finally Dr. Mount announced Johnny’s eyes were normal and he considered the tumor to be arrested. . . Johnny said: "The doctors are fighting among themselves as to who cured me." But June 27 occurred what we had been watching for. He vomited. The tumor had eroded a blood vessel in the brain, (while sluffing off and healing.)

Dr. Traeger said: "He is dying." Dr Penfield wrote: "Your effort kept him alive a year longer than expected."

When you see cases with your own eyes and with close contact as I saw them in a diet hospital, it of course makes incontrovertible impressions. During the three weeks I was a patient, Dr. Burrus who had the largest practice in Portland at that time, was also a patient, but was appointed as house doctor while he was there. As he heard my extemporaneous lecture on health gardening the first evening, his interest in the subject led to almost daily conversations.

The next day, Mr. Whitehead came from Colorado with a nasty looking sore on the side of his head. After Dr. Burrus had dressed it he remarked to me that according to every tennet of medical practice, it was as hopeless a case of cancer as he had ever seen, and as Mr. Whitehead had already been to six "standard" hospitals, he wondered how diet could do anything that modern medicine could not do. I asked if he had studied antibiotics and the probability that the molds produced penicillin, streptomycin etc. in the soil for the plants and that getting them naturally thru our foods might be more potent than artificial hypodermic injections. About the third week when sluffing off and healing started, a nurse had to be on constant guard as blood vessels would burst. Fortunately they did not burst inside the brain as in the case of John Gunther Junior, and in a few weeks he went home cured. (See also page 32)

"Every member of the church should take hold of medical missionary work Testimonies V. 7, p. 62.

"Soon there will be no work clone in ministerial lines except medical missionary work." Counsels on Health, p. 533.

World’s Standards Valueless. "The education that meets the world’s stand and is to be less and less valued by those who are seeking for efficiency in carrying on medical missionary work in connection with the third angel’s message ... As they follow right methods in their treatment of the sick, these methods will come to be recognized as preferable to the methods which many have become accustomed to, which demand the use of poisonous drugs. 9 T., 175, 176.

Different Methods: "Some of the methods used in this work will be different fro) the methods used in the past, but let no one, because of this, block the way by criticism. 7 T., p. 25.

Natural Remedies: "The Saviour sought the people where they were, and placed before them the great truths of His kingdom. As He went from place to place He blessed and comforted the suffering, and healed the sick. This is our work. Small companies are to go forth to do the work to which Christ appointed His disciples. While laboring as evangelists, they can visit the sick, praying with them, and if need be, treating them, not with medicine, but with the remedies provided in nature." Review arid Herald, Aug. 25, 1912. Article by Ellen G. White.

Courage Needed: "Sanitariums were to reform the medical practice of physicians. Health Leaflet No. 10, p. 3. "The physician who has the moral courage to imperil his reputation in enlightening the understanding by plain facts in showing the nature of disease and how to prevent it, and the dangers of the practice of resorting to drugs, will have an uphill business, but he will live and let live." Medical Missionary Work in the Gospel, No. 6, p. 5.

Lifetime Effects: "The physician who depends on drug medication in his practice, shows that he does not understand the delicate machinery of the human organism. He is introducing into the system a seed that will never lose its destroying properties throughout a lifetime. I tell you this because I dare not withhold it. Id. 4:2.

"When drugs are introduced into the system, for a tine then seem to have a beneficial effect. A change may take place but the disease is not cured. It will manifest itself in some other form such as skin diseases, ulcers, painful diseased joints, sometimes in a more dangerous and deadly form . . . and the unfortunate subjects if then live, are invalids for life." Facts of Faith, 135.

More Deadly Than Diseases: "There are more who die from the use of drugs, than all who would have died of disease had nature been left to do her own work." Id. 135.

Safer Methods: "There are simple herbs that can be used for the recovery of the sick, whose effect upon the system is very different from that of those drugs that poison the blood and endanger the life." Manuscript 73, 1908.

Every Family Learn: "The Lord has given simple herbs of the field that at times arc beneficial, and if every family understood how to use these herbs in case of sickness, much suffering might he prevented and no doctor need be called. These old fashioned simple herbs, used intelligently, would have recovered many sick who have (lied under the drug medication." Ms. 162, 1897.

"This Is God’s Method—The herbs that grow for the benefit of man, the little handfuls of herbs, kept, steeped, and used for sudden ailments, have served a tenfold, yes a hundred fold better purpose, than all the drugs hidden under mysterious names. . . They are a delusion and a farce and do a deleterious work." Health Leaflet 10, p. 3.

Safety: "We can with safety discard the concoctions which man has used in the past. The Lord has provided antidotes for diseases in simple plants, and these can be used by faith, with no denial of faith." Ms. 66, 1899.

"Some of these herbs growing in the field would be just as efficacious as the drugs used, under mysterious names and concocted by human science, and they would leave no injurious after effects in the system." Ms. 115, 1903.

"The blood becomes impure, and then diseases of various kinds occur. A physician is sent for who prescribes some drugs which give present relief, but which does not cure disease. It may change the form of the disease, but the real evil is increased tenfold.

Catnip Tea, Hop Tea, Hop Poultices, Mustard: "A cup of tea made from catnip herb will quiet the nerves. Hop tea will induce sleep. Hop poultices over the stomach will relieve pain. If the eyes are weak, if there is pain in the eyes, or inflammation, soft flannel cloths wet in hot water and salt, will bring relief quickly. When the head is congested, if the feet and limbs are put in a bath with a little mustard, relief will be obtained.

"If sufferers would resort to use of water and proper diet, nature would give just the help she requires. Spiritual Gifts 4: 133-135, C.D.F. No. 460.

"Physicians should prescribe for their patients the food best suited for them. This food should be prepared by one who realizes that he occupies a most important position inasmuch as good food is required to make good blood." Ms. 93,

Food and Health: "It is a mistake to suppose that muscular strength depends on the use of animal food. The needs of the system can be better supplied, and more vigorous health can be enjoyed without its use. The grains with fruits, nuts and vegetables contain all the nutritive properties necessary to make good blood." Al. H. 316.

"In grains, fruits, vegetables and nuts are to be found all the food elements we need. If we will come to the Lord in simplicity of mind, He will teach us how to prepare wholesome food free from taint of flesh meat." C.D.F. No. 472.

Special Value: "Families and institutions should learn to do more in the cultivation and improvement of land. If people only knew the value of the products of the ground ... more diligent efforts would be made to cultivate the soil. All should be acquainted with the special value of fruits and vegetables fresh from the garden and orchard. Ms. 13, 1911.

"The Lord Instructs: "The Lord is teaching many minds in many places to make healthful foods that will be a blessing to those who cannot afford to purchase the more expensive, specially prepared health foods. . . . It is the Lord’s design that in every place men and women shall be encouraged to develop their talents by preparing healthful foods from the natural product of their own section of the country.... God is working for His people, He is bringing them back to the diet originally given to man ... fruits, grains, nuts and roots." 7 T. 126, Genesis 1:29.

Diseased Foods: "The time is near when because of the iniquity of the fallen race, the whole animal creation will groan under the diseases that curse the earth." 7 T. 135. M. H. 320.

"There will soon be no safety in the possession of flocks and herds. C.D.F. No. 723. Last sentence. "Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be long until animal foods will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists." C.D.F. No. 662. "The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat eating." C.D.F. No. 668.

When Dr. H. M. Walton, head of our world wide medical work, suggested I might be allergic to animal proteins, I started to study other proteins. Like most people, I had no interest in studying health, till I lost my health. My idea was to hire professional medical men to look after my health when I got sick, just as people hire priests to tell them what to believe in religion, instead of studying for themselves.

We had been brought up on the advertising propaganda of dairy, poultry, and meat industries, and even the medical associations joined in claiming we could not live without the "animal protein factor" and insisted that the only sources of adequate protein were the "protective foods" they had to sell. Charts showed long graphs for cheese, beef and eggs in quantities of four ounce portions compared with only half an ounce of legumes, or nuts, and such deception fools people unless facts are brought to their attention. We can get propaganda for nothing, but must buy the truth, and many resent to have facts that interfere with their thinking. My miseries finally drove me to seek the facts, even if they should cost some actual cash.

Some of the astonishing facts I learned were from Dr. Herman Bundeson, chief of the Chicago Health Department, that for every baby fed the natural way, who died, 67 fed artificially died. Then from scientific experiments we learn that no animals can live over two months on pasteurized milk, and often even calves die in 31 days. Still worse, animals fed on only egg whites die in three days. This was more astonishing than the fact that chicks fed on white bread live only half as long as those given no food at all. Other facts are that dogs fed with bread made from wheat treated with agene gas develop staggers in a few weeks, and this preservative affects the nerve centers of human beings. Calcium propionate destroys the enzyme phosphatase, which the body needs to assimilate calcium and other minerals in the body. You can go from one end of town to the other and not find a single loaf made by commercial bakeries without such preservatives and softeners. Thus the staff of life is broken.

The bread you buy in the store also has milk, but Mrs. E. G. White wrote that we should never use milk in making bread raised with yeast, because it makes it ferment. When foods ferment in the intestines causing autointoxication, it is as bad as buying beer at a bar, so the evil one seems to make universal use of this innocent looking method. The probable reason milk is put in all bakery bread is that they remove the life germ, and bran, which robs the bread of the finer proteins, vitamin E and most of the minerals. Since the protein casein in milk has been found to be similar to wheat germ protein, it is thought this deficiency is remedied by putting milk in the place of wheat germ. However, adults lack the enzyme necessary to digest casein. When the enzyme rennet is needed to process cheese, they get it from the stomachs of young animals. To meet objections we might raise to the fact that we do not properly digest milk, the government Agriculture Yearbook of 1939 explains that the undigested casein makes good bulk in the digestive tract. This seems a rather expensive source of mere inert bulk.

When I had trouble digesting any food, after spending two years in hospitals, I asked an army doctor for a specialist on diet and digestive ailments. This specialist prescribed that I should drink a small glass of half and half milk and cream, every hour, and for nine months I continued to drink an average of fifteen small glasses every day, so I know all about the milk cure.

This experience made me appreciate the following, from another doctor:

"Through my office in these twenty years, has passed a continuous stream of wheezy, itchy persons with stopped up noses, chronic headaches and various stomach and intestinal complaints. They had spent years trying to improve their health and increase their resistance to disease by an ever increasing consumption of milk, for some stomach disorder or weight building. Many had little or no appetite and had fallen into the habit of drinking milk alone, or with eggs. When they develop the symptoms given above the doctor tells them they are run down, and to build up, of course, need to drink more milk, only to find out that milk is the chief cause of their ill health." M. T. Davidson, M. D. in Southern Medical Journal, page 196, February 1942.

Then the doctor adds: "Many physicians as well as dietitians feel that milk has some occult quality which cannot be substituted." Id. 199, and Dr. M. J. Roseneau in writing the introduction to the book on milk, by Dr. Wiley while he was head of the Health Department of the U. S. Government, said: "Milk as a food for adults is responsible for more sickness than all other foods combined."

A statement that agrees with the one quoted from Mrs. White on yeast ferments, says about sour milk:

"Micro organisms are used in the production of various milk drinks. Kefir and Koumiss by yeasts and bacteria contain an appreciable amount of alcohol." Page 349, Yearbook of Agriculture for 1939, on Food for Life. (Yogurt is another of these.)

"Lactobacillus acidophilus germs commonly found in milk, has usually been considered harmless, but the fatal cases reported may change this concept." Journal of the American Medical Association 135: 1076, December 1947.

Thus we see even the most widely recognized medical authorities now admit that lactic acid found in butter milk and sour milk is not as wonderful as they thought.

In explaining why sixty-seven times as many babies died in Chicago when fed artificially on pasteurized milk, we find that:

‘Breast milk protein is composed of casein and lacto-albumin in equal proportions, while in cow’s milk the proportions are casein four parts and lacto-albumin one part, casein requiring much greater powers of digestion.

"The fat of human milk exists in a much finer state of emulsion than the cream of cow’s milk and has a lower melting point. In the two milks the mineral factor does not correspond either in amount, in type of chemical combination, or in absorbability.

"An infant fed on cow’s milk with its relatively high casein and low lacto-albumin content requires more protein than the one fed on breast milk.

"The lowered calcium content of the blood . . . observed in infants receiving large amounts of cow’s milk with its high calcium content, seems to be from a failure of the body to absorb and retain such calcium as is available. This failure is even more prominent in the use of pasteurized milk.

"The fat globules of cow’s milk are often so large that instead of permeating the delicate structures of the intestinal walls of the child, it places a greasy coating there, inhibiting normal function of these membranes.

"The vitamin content of milk varies greatly, perhaps more than any other food, due to type of food the animal eats." Gerald Benesh in Am. Vegetarian, June ‘50.

We are told by the Dairy Association that milk is the most wonderful and perfect food known, but when it is commercially processed and artificially used, the facts are:

When a cow has to carry its milk in the udder at body temperature for 12 hours it is at the temperature when germs multiply most, hence it always develops slime decay, as anyone knows, who has cleaned the centrifugal bowl of a cream separator. In the tropics this slime develops faster than in northern climates, and our experience with it there made us more aware of it. When calves are permitted to drain the udder every few hours this problem is taken care of.

"Milk is low in iron, as infants are born with enough iron to last till they grow teeth and can chew solid food."

"Milk has little vitamin C, and five sixths of it is destroyed by pasteurizing."

"Milk is almost as low as navy beans in cystine, an essential amino acid."

"Lactose in milk digests slowly, and leaves an undigested residue." P. 177 in "Food for Life," U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook for 1939.

"Bread and milk, comforting at bedtime like an internal poultice, has remained too long the staple of the sick. At first it is soothing, but in the small hours it is prone to awake him in discomfort. It has cost much sleep, provoked many angina attacks, and delayed many a convalescence. Too often it turns the scale against recovery. Sir Clifford Albutt wrote truly of the mistake of reliance on the light, farinaceous pudding as an invalid food. . . In this country there can be no doubt that bread and milk has been a very evil element in the dietetics of the sick. So has white rice pudding."Dr. James Lionel Picton, O.B.E. in Nutrition and the Soil, Devin Adair Co., N. Y., pp. 275, 276.

The commercial bakeries feared the results as people became wise to the effect of robbing the bread of its fine proteins, and giving us only the poor proteins, and as gluten lacks essential amino acids, and no matter how much gluten you eat, you can still have a deficiency diet. This is explained in our church paper as follows:

"A distinction must be made between an inadequate amount of total protein in the dietary, and a deficit of specific amino acids. . . A dietary may be low in total protein—even 50 per cent below the accepted dietary standards—and yet if the proteins of high biologic value are well represented, the individual will remain well nourished.’’ Dr. H. M. Walton, in The Review and Herald, pp. 13, April 6, 1950.

"Gluten from the white part of the kernel is known as the poor protein because of its inadequate content of essential amino acids," says the Journal of the American Diet Association of November 1942, as quoted in the Ministry of January 1943. Besides this, bread is robbed of vitamins and minerals, and bakeries try to overcome this by offering to enrich their glutinous "bubble gum" bread, but:

"Enrichment calls for only two vitamins, while in whole grain there are 10 to 12, with 50 to 95 per cent removed in milling. ... Wheat has 15 to 20 minerals, depending on the soils... 70 to 90 per cent being lost in milling. Enrichment calls for only iron." Dr. J. A. LeClerk, Senior Chemist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, in report at Purdue University.

It has been found that combinations of whole grains, with beans and nuts, increase the utilization of the protein. Ezekiel was instructed specifically to make such a combination, and eat a specified amount, as a menu to be followed for 390 days, in Ezekiel 4:9.

"Take thou unto thee wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt and put them in one vessel and make thee bread thereof . . . by weight, 20 sheckles a day.

By adding the oriental beans and millet, this would incidentally give it an alkaline balance. The animal proteins are very high in acid, as well as irritating stimulants, such as cholesterol, uric lactic and carbonic acids and other wastes. Oxidizing the animal fats as a source of energy makes the body acid, while oxidizing starch and other carbohydrates leaves an alkaline ash in the body.

Some of the animal proteins are of definitely inferior quality. In an experiment "Gelatin failed to fill the protein needs and the dogs starved on it." Dr. McCarrison in the Cantor Lectures, Page 66, Wheel of Health. Albumin, a protein of egg white, is another inferior protein that throws a heavy burden on eliminative organs.

In an article on "Your Kidneys," Dr. John Maxwell wrote: "High protein foods leave undesirable end products, poisonous residues, putrefactive material, uric acid, xanthin, guanin, creatin, and hippuric acid. A vegetable diet neutralizes such products from other foods such as animal proteins." Page 30, Nature’s Path, February 1952.

Eggs have a highly acid reaction and besides: "Egg whites contain avidin that destroys the vitamin biotin. Without biotin man or animals cannot live. . . Raw egg whites if used exclusively produce death in a brief period of time. Ten laboratory animals were placed on a diet of nothing but raw egg whites and the animals were all dead in less than three days. When 65 per cent of the food of an animal was of excellent quality, and would produce excellent health, but adding 35 per cent unheated egg white the laboratory animal was reduced to near death." Dr. Stanton’s Natural Food Adv. page 66. Prevention, June 1952.

We all know the fastest spoiling products are the animal foods. Especially eggs develop a very strong odor and putrefy rapidly. The following facts are from the Department of Agriculture Yearbook of 1939:

"Much of the spoilage and deterioration encountered in fresh, stored and processed eggs are due to micro-organisms. Their presence in large numbers is an indication of improper handling and unsanitary conditions, but some eggs contain bacteria at the time they are laid. Page 344.

"It is often not realized how fast an egg spoils just after it is laid. The nest is usually warm and not a good place for storage. Eggs give off carbon dioxide though they absorb very little oxygen. This is not respiration, but a form of decomposition, the same as with meat. The result is an accumulation of carbon dioxide in the egg. Page 354.

From Mrs. E. G. White we have these counsels:

"Eggs should not be placed upon your table. They are an injury to your children. Fruits and grains prepared in the most simple manner are the most healthful and will impart the greatest amount of nourishment to the body, and at the same time, not impair the intellect." Page 400, Testimonies Vol. 2.

"I would say that for children of strong animal passions they are positively injurious. The same may be said for adults." Letter 5, Page 94, Witness of Science.

"For children given to sensual habits, eggs should not be used." M. H. 320.

"Especially harmful are the custards and puddings in which milk, eggs and sugar are the chief ingredients." Counsels on Diets and Foods, Paragraph 625.

"You place upon your table butter, eggs and meat and your children partake of them. They are fed the very things that excite their animal passions, and then you come to meeting and ask God to bless and save your children. How high will your prayers go?" Page 362, Testimonies Vol. 2, C. D. F. par. 627.

"The time will soon come when there will be no safety in using eggs, milk, cream or butter. God will give his people ability to prepare wholesome food without these things. Let our people discard all unwholesome recipes. . . Let them impart this knowledge as they would Bible instruction.... Make it plain that the food which God gave Adam, (Genesis 1:29) is the best, as we seek to regain the sinless state." Page 135, Testimonies, Vol. 7.

"In all parts of the world, provision will be made to supply the place of milk and eggs." E. G. White letter 151. C. D. F., par. 359, Witness of Science pp. 98.

In our denominational publications are very timely suggestions on the protein problems, and Life and Health tells of these delicious preparations:

"To substitute for milk, excellent soy milk is available, for cooking as well as beverage. Some enjoy milk made of nut butter. The nuts are ground to a paste and this is diluted to a creamlike consistency with water. . . There is a whipped cream substitute made from frozen soy cream that is simply marvelous. It is called whip topping, for strawberry shortcake, etc.

"Beans come the closest to being an egg substitute for they are rich in lecithin. For protein value, any of the following will substitute for one egg: Five tablespoons soy mince, one fourth cup soy beans, one half cup green peas, one third cup corn germ. (Also 2 spoons flax meal soaked over night till gelatine like, take the place of one egg as a binder for baking purposes.)

"In dietary tests, rats may thrive on milk, because rats do not require vitamin C as does the human." Dr. G. K. Abbott, pp. 59, Witness of Science.

We also find that rats can synthesize folic acid, which the body needs to make red blood corpuscles. Both vitamin C and folic acid are destroyed by pasteurizing. Rats also thrive on practically no iron. Marvelous propaganda on how wonderful milk is in the diet can be shown in laboratory tests on rats, but the trouble with such methods is that human beings are not rats, and therefore cannot synthesize their own blood building compounds, and therefore become anemic.

When the statement is made by the "highest professional authorities" that we must have animal proteins, it is very difficult for me to believe, when I have not tasted anything that comes from animals since 1936. Therefore I asked Dr. W. K. Abbott if there is anything in animal foods that we cannot find in better form from plants. He answered that he did not know of any, to which I remarked that seemed to be a very strong point in favor of vegetarian diet. Our leading denominational publications, quoting the highest scientific sources give us the following facts on this point.

"Wheat germ protein, they found, is as good as casein, chief protein of milk and cheese, or even better. They conclude that it can be used in the human dietary as a supplementary protein equal in value to casein, or other animal proteins." From Science News Letter, May 30, 1942, quoted by the Ministry of August 1942, pp. 32.

"Heating increased the nutritive-value of soy beans to an efficiency comparable to that observed for casein and beef liver." Nutrition Review, August 1944.

"Mature lima beans, heated, were also of high biological value, approaching closely that of soy beans. Fresh, green, raw peas, supplied better growth promoting protein than any other protein tested." Diet and Health Supplement, Pacific Union Recorder.

"Cooking releases amino acids of most mature legumes, but not of green peas." The Ministry, pp. 30, May 1948.

"The growth of rats on potato proteins was compared with that of rats on casein, protein of milk, and practically no difference was found, so it was concluded that potato proteins have about the same high biologic value as casein." Journal of the American Diet Association, pp. 117, February 1946.

Even the little appreciated potato, has a complete protein, with all the essential amino acids, and proved to be as good as milk. Dr. Hindhede of Denmark proved this in the war emergency, as his personal gardener lived on nothing but potatoes for a whole year, and incidentally was cured of a supposedly-incurable disease, while carrying out this experiment. But we find many other vegetarian proteins superior to animal proteins. In an experiment by Dr. G. T. Wrench it was found that the highest values were obtained with whole rye and flax meal which proved better than milk.

"Then came single wheat, rye, maize, oats and kafir corn." Page 67, Wheel of Life.

Of course even vegetarian proteins that are complete when the whole grain is used, become deficient when robbed of the life germ and mineral layers, for:

"The people who ordinarily depend heavily on white bread and degerminated cereals are sure to suffer from lack of protein. Even though they get enough, the quality is poor, growth is stunted and health is threatened. Yet, if grains can be combined with other protein foods to supply that lack, they become as valuable as meat and milk. That is why nutritionists would like to see wheat germ put back into the flour, and why they favor the whole grain products. That is why they look to soy beans... Wheat, rice and corn matched with soy beans can feed the world." J. B. McCay, Ph.D. Nutritionist, Cornell University, pp. 6, Life and Health, July 1949.

"In substituting for butter, two tablespoons avocado pear replace one pat. Ripe olives may be ground into butterlike consistency. Greens are also very rich. Use them in sandwiches.

"Whip topping is delicious, like the best cream, but free from germs. It is made of soy beans, a corn product and vanilla. Mix 1 cup boiled rice, 1 cup shaved almonds, 1 cup shredded pineapple, 1 cup whip topping and half a cup honey." P. 14, Life and Health for July 1949.

For more delicious recipes see the new vegetarian cook book listed on last page.

"The amount of other minerals in milk is very small. . . The same is true of both vitamins B and C, so that a person who uses either pasteurized or raw milk cannot hope to get enough of these vitamins without taking other food. . .

"The greatest danger that can come from the use of milk arises from the living disease germs which it may contain. No milk is entirely free from germs. . . No amount of care and cleanliness and no testing program as yet put into effect can really ensure that raw milk, even certified milk, will always be free from living germs. . At present by far the most serious and prevalent disease that is largely due to germs carried in milk, is undulant fever, the persistent form of which is brucellosis or Malta fever.

Our general church paper, the Review and Herald adds instructions on Vegetarian Proteins, and elimination of milk and eggs by Loma Linda doctors, and first from the world famous authority on nutrition, Dr. H. C. Sherman, is quoted:

"With sufficient attention to fruit, nut and vegetable supplies, these with cereals and breadstuffs, can constitute fairly well balanced diets derived entirely from primary foods, (i.e. not second hand) or direct food crops, and thus represent high efficiency in the use of food production resources for the advancement of human nutrition and well being." p. 392, Food Products by Dr. H. C. Sherman, 1948.

"Teachers of food and nutrition may render a much needed service to food economics by careful and confident teaching of the fact that recent research shows that the traditional prejudice in favor of animal protein is largely illusory." p. 389.

"Nutritionists and agriculture economists have agreed in recommending an initial increase of 50 per cent in the U. S. per capita consumption of mature beans, peas, peanuts and soy beans as human foods. Eventually this food group with other nuts included, might well play a higher part in our dietary."-Dr. H. C. Sherman in Foods, Their Values and Management, page 47, all quoted in Review and Herald, July 12, 1952.

"Now comes added scientific evidence in one of the leading medical journals to show that not only a meat free diet but actually an all-vegetable diet exclusive of even milk and eggs, is adequate for maintaining normal red-blood cells and general well being. In experiments performed at the College of Medical Evangelists School of Medicine by Doctors 0. K. Gant and E. C. Christensen, recently reported in the International Record of Medicine, the effect of a diet of vegetable foods on the blood is given. These research scientists used a vegetable diet that included neither milk nor eggs. These doctors have vividly shown that this diet is not only adequate, but actually conducive to better health. Placing twenty persons on a vegetable diet for 12 weeks and repeatedly making blood tests, the doctors reported:

1. The subjects had no fatigue or loss of pep.

2. The diet was found to be more laxative. Many cases of constipation were cleared up.

3. The diets were higher in vitamin intake than ordinary.

4. The subjects had a normal blood count and total serum protein. There was no reduction in the blood elements and all were maintained in good health throughout the experiment." Review and Herald, pp. 8, Aug. 23, 1951. Quoted page 4, Life and Health, November 1951.

"Consumers Research considers the value of milk as food for persons other than very young children, grossly exaggerated by milk companies’ powerful, ingeniously organized and ubiquitous propaganda, to which reputable nutrition, dietetic, medical and school authorities, governmental and private, have unfortunately been annexed. Because milk is a food containing a number of substances indispensable for the very young infant, it does not follow that it is also an ideal food or even a good food for all—even all children. As one doctor put it, trying to fill a 3 or 4-year old child’s stomach with enough milk to meet his calorie needs is like trying to fire an engine with shavings. The fire box is so full of kindling there is no room for coal.

"The great milk distributors with their huge salaries to executives and their chains of interlocked corporations, have made milk a relatively expensive food. As usually produced and distributed, milk is practically lacking in vitamins C and D. It is also nearly devoid of iron and is inadequate for supplying the needs of the blood building organs. Milk alone, says the American Medical Association, is a bulky, often indigestible, constipating, and anemia producing diet. Patients should not be left on it for long. Many persons are highly sensitized to milk and should not be forced to take it. Mayo Clinic estimates that to one person in fifteen, milk is poisonous. Many cases of anemia have been traced to excessive consumption of milk, yet may not be suspected.

"One child expert estimates that ten per cent of the minor ills of childhood are the evils of too much milk. ‘The typical symptoms are, pale from anemia, constipated, cross and irritable, will not eat, restless sleeper, grits his teeth, kicks and thrashes about... I see night terrors only in milk drinkers.’ A medical journal refers to milk as most slowly passed out of the stomach and may interfere with total food intake. A pint of milk may take as much as 61/2 hours to pass from the stomach. ‘Vegetables are a more suitable source of calcium, by using brown rice, and the water in which vegetables are cooked, home cooked soups and greens, so the advice of experts to get more calcium by milk drinking would seem ill directed. Milk is not an economical source of calcium. Problems of allergy, indigestibility, and the crowding out of other foods are greater dangers to health than any fancied lack of calcium. Col. 61, Consumers Research B., September 1937.

That a vegetarian diet is an adequate source of protein is attested as follows:

"Our studies, conducted on normal, healthy humans, have proved that a vegetable protein diet composed of pea soup, stew mix, soy cereal and flour is adequate. Blood tests were made twice a week on these groups and at all times the protein level of the blood on persons on the vegetable protein diet was as good as and in many respects higher than those on regular diet.... The vegetable protein diet is adequate in maintaining the serum protein, albumin and globulin, as well as the hemoglobin of the blood... There was no evidence of anemia . . . absolutely no interference with the subjects’ work or daily routine and well being. . . There was no manifestation of subclinical or chemical changes indicative of a diet deficiency." Dr. Samuel A. Levinson, Professor of Pathology, Director of Laboratory, University of Illinois College of Medicine in the April 1946 issue of Health, page 17.

From England, we find the same experiences as in our country:

"Recently in the House of Commons the Minister of Health announced milk was being improperly pasteurized in London plants. In a letter to the Times, Sir Arnold Wilson, retiring president of the National Council of Milk Recording, said it had been proved that there was less tuberculosis in rural areas where all milk is drunk raw, than in the cities where all milk is pasteurized. Pasteurization is supported by commercial interests, but its value as a safeguard against illness is small . . . and it reduces certain health giving qualities of milk, especially vitamin C. . . In Britain they have milk provided for school children, most of which is pasteurized and children have an aversion for it and get nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache and cattarrh, mostly from allergy." pp. 99, 100, Wheel of Health by Dr. Wrench.

It would be well to explain here that the many references to milk not being properly assimilated in the body is that pasteurizing or boiling, made necessary by the great danger from disease infection, destroys the enzyme phosphatase, and lacking this it is impossible for the body to assimilate calcium, (which controls all other minerals in the body".

The anemia is from the lack of iron that helps carry oxygen in the red blood cells, and also pasteurizing destroys the folic acid, without which the body cannot make red blood cells. Five-sixths of the small amount of vitamin C is also destroyed by pasteurizing, and all of it by (line missing) in, cannot be digested without the enzyme rennet, and this is found only in the stomachs of the very young. Thus we see as the Bible declares as an axiom, milk is for infants, and when people are weaned they should use other foods One doctor makes the point that man, and animals he has perverted, are the only creatures that use milk after the weaning stage.

Recently I was reading about the millions of animals that have been killed to get rid of diseases, mostly tuberculosis at first, then bangs disease, and lately foot and mouth disease and the tumorous and cancerous animals. The scar tissue is cut out and thrown in the tanks. The culls are ground up and made into hot dogs, and the prime beef is sold at exorbitant prices. To make profit from the wastes, they induced the fish commissions to buy the tankage to feed the young spawn. Up to eighty percent of the fish developed cancer from the diseased meat, so they promptly discontinued that. As it brought too low prices as fertilizer, they induced poultry feed producers to put it in the laying mash. Grey eye and Fowl Paralysis spread like a plague all over the nation about 1928, whole counties with 60 percent of all chickens dying of this form of cancer. This was a terrible waste, to bury all these dead ones. Chickens were bringing sixty cents a pound if you could raise them in a good condition. If you could detect them in the early stages of grey eye, which is the first symptoms of cancer of the blood, you can sell them direct to lunch counters for forty cents a pound. When they get really paralyzed, they can be sold to roadhouses for twenty cents a pound. As they get just as much for cancerous chickens when stuffed and highly spiced, they prefer to buy the twenty cent kind." (See Diseases of Food Animals, by Dr. Parrot, Review and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington,(words missing)

"Known cases of undulant fever and chronic brucellosis have been markedly increasing during recent years. Misery, weakness, and general physical debility, due to such infections are more prevalent than most people realize. Most serious of all is the fact that in most cases recovery is never really complete." Dr. H. O. Swartout, The Truth about Milk, in Life and Health for May 1949, page 8.

"We are health reformers, seeking to come back to God’s original plan of temperance. Temperance does not consist merely in abstaining from intoxicating liquor and tobacco. It must regulate what we eat." C.D.F. 406. See Gen. 1:29.

(It is not enough to quit meat alone, but also the things that create a craving for meat.) See Counsels on Diet and Foods p. 399. "Arouse the people from their paralyzed condition and lead them to put away those things that create an appetite for flesh meat. If they neglect to reform, they will lose spiritual power and become more and more debased by indulgence.

"Many a mother sets a table that is a snare to her children: Flesh meats, butter, cheese, rich pastry, spiced foods. These things do their work of 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." Id. 369.

"You should be teaching your children how to shun the vices and corruptions of the age. Instead of this, many are studying how to get something good to eat. You place on your tables butter, eggs and meat and your children partake of them. They are fed the very things that excite their animal passions, and then you come to meeting and ask God to bless and save your children. How high do such prayers go?" Testimonies Volume 2, page 362. See also C.D.F. 390. "Eggs should not be placed on your table. They are an injury to your children." Id. 400.

(The Bible says of those who eat unclean foods, even their prayers are an abomination to God, hence our diet does have a spiritual aspect.)

"Let the people be taught to prepare food without the use of milk or butter. Tell them the time will soon come when there will be no safety in using eggs, milk, cream or butter, because disease in animals is increasing. God will give His people ability and tact to prepare wholesome food without these things. Let our people discard all unwholesome recipes. Let them learn how to live healthfully teaching others what they have learned. Let them impart this knowledge as they would Bible instruction." 7 T. 135.

"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. C.D.F. 365.

"In all parts of the world provision will be made to supply the place of milk and eggs. C.D.F. 359. "Animals are becoming more and more diseased and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists. C.D.F. 384. (Over 600 stores in U.S. where no animal product is sold.)

"It is not only those who openly reject the testimonies, or who cherish doubt regarding them, that are on dangerous ground. To disregard light is to reject it." 5 T. 680. "The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable, if it lays any restriction upon the appetite. All who leave the common track of custom and advocate reform will be opposed, accounted mad, insane and radical, let them pursue ever so consistent a course." 2 T. 377.

"Shall we strengthen the animal passions by eating animal food? It is high time that we were educating ourselves to subsist on fruits, grains and vegetables. C.D.F. 407.

There has been no retraction of any of the instructions regarding discarding animal foods, for in the last volume of the Testimonies (9 T. 158) it says:

"I have been shown that the principles that were given us in the early days of the message are as important and should be regarded as conscientiously today as when they were given. There are some who have never followed the light given on the diet question."

The best methods of vocational training, are the most natural, with an actual production program. Practical results stimulate the students more, and interest the business management most. While talking with a college president he remarked that the print shop manager was taking an unfavorable attitude toward their industrial training, and refused to hire anyone in the shop who had taken an accredited course in printing from a qualified teacher for vocational that an artificial classroom setup, does not give the student actual experience in efficient commercial production, and because of the law of the mind that it is three times as hard to get rid of wrong habits, of dillitante puttering learned in most so called "appreciation courses," and replacing them with efficient methods the modern shops use in actual commercial production. An artificial course is therefore worse than useless.

In the same school we were negotiating for a qualified teacher for vocational training, and we could get a man who had a master’s degree, with all the trimmings. In talking our problems over with the State educational department, we explained that our students needed to learn actual production by efficient methods, and that this man with the Masters’ Degree was in no sense of the word a master of the trade or any of the related industries. Another man who was a very skilled workman and experienced in actually running an industry, who was working in a University shop, lacked a degree or accredited course. He had learned the trade by the apprenticeship method in an actual shop. However, the accrediting association would not let us hire this efficient man, but required the man with the artificial training. Further, they required an appreciation course such as, "The history of book making from the dawn of civilization to the Renaissance" rather than a common working-man’s skill by which he could earn a living at the trade. For this, the appreciation course is mostly a fool’s paradise.

The state educational department official understandingly responded that for twenty years the educational department had been struggling with the accrediting association to permit a practical training program. Such a program can meet every educational standard, by including aesthetic and artistic appeal, problem solving, creative thinking, and every other factor the associations have set up. A practical, experienced man, usually called a "self-made man" is often inventive, adept at solving all the every day problems and mastering new developments, and artistic skill with business ability to make a success of the trade. Such a man, with no degrees of any kind, can be given a short course in effective methods of training others to make a success of it. In fact, a man who has already been successful him self in the business, is the best qualified to make the learners successful.

The best way to learn how to build a house, is to build a house, and not to sit and putter with small birdhouse size models. Most faculties say that college students could never build a house, in spite of that they know that is exactly the means specified in the writings of Mrs. E. G. White. That it can be done by even younger high school students, we saw in Barrington, Illinois where a group of young boys were building a house. The high school carpentry instructor was there with them, and remarked that this was the sixth house the boys had built for neighbors, and they were actually earning as well as saving the school the expense of building a workshop. It is not only the most efficient way to learn, but the most economical.

This reminds us also of an incident that occurred in Wayne University, when a student from Madison College came there for special vocational training. The head of the department had read the Readers Digest article about Madison and appreciated the practical ideals this school was supposed to have, so after registration of the student and arrangement with one of the school officials, the teachers training department head remarked privately. "They do not want vocational training, all they want is accreditation, so there seems to be nothing we can do for them."

We should be the head, and not the tail in a productive vocational training program, but to be educational, it must not be merely a sweatshop factory with an industry operated by high speed automatic machinery. How often students have come into my shop, and tried to relax a bit, remarking there was no use trying to study after so many hours feeding the high speed machines that worked their nerves up into a state of jitters, and added such a roar that it increased their exhaustion. That some professors consider that ideal, was revealed by the doctor of philosophy that came into our shop where students were learning a quiet skilled trade, and remarking that what we needed was to modernize with a real high speed production setup. We explained that the most inefficient thing we knew of was to make mistakes fast. Skilled trades require correct practice before permitting speed. That applies so evidently to typewriting and piano playing, with which you may be more familiar. It develops patience to keep the speed down till the skills are thoroughly perfected, but it is only correct practice that makes perfect. There are many valuable lessons to be learned in a natural vocational program in our schools, but an industrial setup that is merely a sweatshop factory with a lot of expensive, automatic machinery, is ruinous to any denominational training program, It may give experience to routine workers whose ideals may be city life with a factory job. We should train for more natural country living.

"We are not at liberty to teach that which shall meet the world’s standard, or the standard of the church, simply because it is the custom to do so. Testimonies, Vol. 6, p. 142.

"You may attain success in the education of students as medical missionaries without a medical school that can qualify physicians to compete with the physicians of the world. . . . The education that meets the world’s standard is to be less and less valued by those who are seeking for efficiency in carrying on medical missionary work in connection with the third angel’s message, and as they conscientiously and faithfully follow right methods in the treatment of the sick, these methods will come to be recognized as preferable to methods to which many have become accustomed which demand the use of poisonous drugs." Testimonies V. 9, pp. 175, 176.

"I would that people might see the inconsistency of our being God’s commandment keeping people, a peculiar people, and yet feeling that we must copy after the world in order to make our work successful." Lorna Linda Messages, p. 184.

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He explained that he got his popularity by never prescribing drugs or any other kind of medicine, but only diet or natural herbs and physiotherapy. Such unorthodox practice threatened his standing, but he had held his ground and the patients liked it. However when his own liver was affected with sclerosis, the accredited doctor came to a lay member where diet was the only medicine, for he had seen what this diet program had done for others.

Unfortunately these lay workers are not allowed to help victims till after they are beyond the pale of any possibility of help by the professional practitioners whose legal rights must be preserved, but how are they going to pass a law to prevent a layman from doing organic gardening and giving his neighbor vitalized foods, without also closing up all agriculture, food stores and lunch counters, is the great problem of the accrediting associations.

A high school agriculture teacher said; "If you want the best, study nature. Human wisdom cannot improve on it. For example in the woods and meadows you see humus, with mulch, on top of the soil. In the cultivated fields you see bare mineral soil, idealized as ‘clean cultivation.’ Dust mulch made by artificial cultivation is a poor substitute for natural mulch with leaves, cuttings and trash. Bare soil blows away in dust storms, or if it rains, the fine dust is puddled into a "pie layer" which forms a crust when it dries, so the air cannot get into the soil. When a hard pan is formed by rain washing fine particles several inches down, water cannot penetrate, and it runs off, washing more soil away. Humus and mulch on the surface absorbs all the rain, for it is seven times as efficient as bare mineral soil for conservation of moisture. It also holds more nitrogen and keeps soil porous so nitrogen from the air has free access to the roots. This increases the protein in our foods, a point of special interest to vegetarians.

Original Diet: "In order to know what are the best foods, we must study God’s original plan for man’s diet... Grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables constitute the diet chosen for us by the creator. . . They impart a strength, a power of endurance, a vigor of intellect, that are not afforded by a more complex and stimulating diet. Min. of Healing 295, 296

Do Something Yourselves: "Our faith requires us to take advance steps. While many question the course pursued by other health reformers, they as reasonable men, should do something themselves... There are few as yet who are aroused sufficiently to understand how much their habits of diet have to do with their health, their characters, their usefulness in the world and their eternal destiny... Men and women must be instructed, and ministers and people should feel that the burden of the work rests upon them to agitate the subject and urge it home upon others." 1 T. 488, 489

We recommend that all read the counsels of Mrs. E. C. White, so we understand the principles involved and can discern truth wherever we find it. We must read Counsels on Diets and Foods, Counsels on Health, Our Health Message, etc., and then we can study the best secular books that give technical information.