If those who are sick would exercise their muscles daily, women as well as men, in outdoor work, using brain, bone, and muscle proportionately, weakness and languor would disappear. Health would take the place of disease, and strength the place of feebleness.
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Let those who are sick do all in their power, by correct practice in eating, drinking, and dressing, and by taking judicious exercise, to secure recovery of health. Let the patients who come to our sanitariums be taught to cooperate with God in seeking health. “Ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.”1 Corinthians 3:9. God made nerve and muscle in order that they might be used. It is the inaction of the human machinery that brings suffering and disease.—Letter 5, 1904.
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For Further Study Duty to Preserve Health: Counsels on Health, 563-566. Efficiency Dependent on Health: Counsels on Health, 193, 194 (Testimonies for the Church 4:264-270); Counsels on Health, 407 (The Ministry of Healing, 219). The Price of Health: Counsels on Health, 595 (Testimonies for the Church 4:408, 409). Exercise and Diet: Counsels on Health, 572-574 (Testimonies for the Church 3:489-492). Results of Inaction With Study: Counsels on Health, 184-188 (Testimonies for the Church 3:148-152); Counsels on Health, 20; Testimonies for the Church 4:94, 95). Recreation: Counsels on Health, 197, 198 (Testimonies For The Church 1:514, 515). Caution Against Exhausting, Not Recuperative, Recreation: Education, 277, 278. Regular Hours for Rest: Counsels on Health, 361. Occasional Relief for Sanitarium Physicians: Counsels on Health, 354 (Testimonies for the Church 3:182). Physical Labor for Students: Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 285-293. Vitalizing Effects of Combined Physical and Mental Labor: Testimonies for the Church 3:157. Right Use of Voice Conducive to Health: Testimonies for the Church 4:404, 405.
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