For many years we have only mentioned the difficulty with spices. In this topic we will discuss the danger to health from spices. We have tried to open the truths entrusted to us as a people in a gentle and slow manner. Ten years is a long time to not discuss this subject, but we cannot continue to withhold the information from those who cherish their health and the health of their children.
There is a natural and a depraved appetite. Parents who have taught their children to eat unhealthful, stimulating food all their lives--until the taste is perverted, and they crave clay, slate pencils, burned coffee, tea grounds, cinnamon, cloves, and spices--cannot claim that the appetite demands what the system requires. The appetite has been falsely educated, until it is depraved. The fine organs of the stomach have been stimulated and burned, until they have lost their delicate sensitiveness. Simple, healthful food seems to them insipid. The abused stomach will not perform the work given it, unless urged to it by the most stimulating substances. If these children had been trained from their infancy to take only healthful food, prepared in the most simple manner, preserving its natural properties as much as possible, and avoiding flesh meats, grease, and all spices, the taste and appetite would be unimpaired. In its natural state, it might indicate, in a great degree, the food best adapted to the wants of the system."
We see here that the natural appetite is important to protect. If by habit we eat that which is stimulating, then we will not appreciate the natural food God has given us for our health. We all may differ on the dangers of certain substances, but the fact remains that this principle of perverted appetite is true and ought to be understood, especially in regards to our children.