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 The controlling power of appetite will prove the ruin of thousands, when, if they had conquered on this point, they would have had moral power to gain the victory over every other temptation of Satan. But those who are slaves to appetite will fail in perfecting Christian character. The continual transgression of man for six thousand years has brought sickness, pain, and death as its fruits. And as we near the close of time, Satan's temptation to indulge appetite will be more powerful and more difficult to overcome.       {Counsels on Diets and Foods 163.3}

 Pre-established habits and ideas must be overcome in many cases, before we can make advancement in religious life. The faithful Christian will bear much fruit; he is a worker; he will not lazily drift, but will put on the whole armor to fight the battles of the Lord. The essential work is to conform the tastes, the appetite, the passions, the motives, the desires, to the great moral standard of righteousness. The work must begin at the heart. That must be pure, wholly conformed to Christ's will, else some master passion, or some habit or defect, will become a power to destroy. God will accept of nothing short of the whole heart.  {Christian Education  50.2} 

The strength of the temptation to indulge appetite can be measured only by the inexpressible anguish of our Redeemer in that long fast in the wilderness. He knew that the indulgence of perverted appetite would so deaden man's perceptions that sacred things could not be discerned. Adam fell by the indulgence of appetite; Christ overcame by the denial of appetite. And our only hope of regaining Eden is through firm self-control. If the power of indulged appetite was so strong upon the race, that, in order to break its hold, the divine Son of God, in man's behalf, had to endure a fast of nearly six weeks, what a work is before the Christian! Yet, however great the struggle, he may overcome. By the help of that divine power which withstood the fiercest temptations that Satan could invent, he too may be entirely successful in his warfare with evil, and at last may wear the victor's crown in the kingdom of God.  {Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene  54.2}
 

 Ignorance is no excuse now for the transgression of law. The light shines clearly, and none need be ignorant, for the great God Himself is man's instructor. All are bound by the most sacred obligations to God to heed the sound philosophy and genuine experience which He is now giving them in reference to health reform. He designs that the great subject of health reform shall be agitated, and the public mind deeply stirred to investigate; for it is impossible for men and women, with all their sinful, health-destroying, brain-enervating habits, to discern sacred truth, through which they are to be sanctified, refined, elevated, and made fit for the society of heavenly angels in the kingdom of glory. . . .  {Counsels on Diets and Foods  70.2} 

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Effects of Caffeine

(Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Soft Drinks and Cocoa)

1. Can cause drug withdrawal reactions and cause or worsen psychiatric illness

2.Central Nervous System Stimulant (negative effect on Children)

3.Addictive

4. Increases Blood Pressure

5. Can cause palpitations and more dangerous heart rhythms

6. Increases gastric acids and pepsin thus increasing the risk of ulcers.

7. Avoid in pregnancy, because it may cause skeletal abnormalities, damage to DNA and chromosomal aberrations, decreased intrauterine fetal growth and lower birth weights.

8. Impairs mental and physical performance

9. Increases blood coagulation. (Increases risk of coronary thrombosis)

10. Disturbs Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep.

Compiled from You’ll Rust Out Before You Wear Out by Royce K. Bailey, MD and Proof Positive by Neil Nedley, MD

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From the John Hopkins Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences comes the report that caffeine produces many behavioral effects similar to those of cocaine and amphetamines. Caffeine increased cocaine-seeking behavior measurably. This infers that caffeine can be a gateway to stronger drugs. Unfortunately, caffeine is the most common drug habit in the United States. The Journal of Health and Healing pg 10

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Guilt-free Gourmet pg.340, 341

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Researchers checked whether any of the fats (which are plentiful) in chocolate mimic the chemical structure of psychoactive drugs. As it turns out, chocolate contains compounds similar to those in marijuana.

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 Vinegar

  The pH of vinegar is typically in the range of 2.4 to 3, depending on the concentration of acetic acid, but in scientific studies small amounts of vinegar (approximately 20 ml or 2 tablespoons) added to food have been shown to effect the glycemic index of carbohydrate food for people with or without diabetes. This may be explained by delayed gastric emptying rate.

Vinegar is a ferment that suspends salivary digestion and retards the digestion of starches. Fit for Life by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond

A very small portion of vinegar will diminish the digestion of starch by its inhibiting effect upon the ptyalin. Vinegar not only destroys ptyalin, but contains alcohol which precipitates the pepsin of the gastric juice and retards or prevents gastric digestion of proteins. In other words, it cripples the first two stages of digestion.

[When] salads a prepared with oil and vinegar, fermentation takes place in the stomach, and the food does not digest, but decays or putrefies; as a consequence the blood is not nourished, but becomes filled with impurities, and liver and kidney difficulties appear. Counsels on Diets and Foods, Pg 345

When questioned, an osteopath, Frank Small, stated that vinegar can stop bleeding as well as breathing, and can cause anemia, a weak heart, hemorrhaging and vomiting.

Of less than 10 people I referenced on the issue, 2 were given headaches by vinegar; one had intestinal distress, and one (who with some of the others) had recently quit using vinegar reported it to be addictive. She told me, If you don’t think you consume much vinegar, try eliminating it and see how many foods you have to avoid.

When Christ hung on the cross, He was presented with a stupefying potion of vinegar as a painkiller. When he had tasted it He refused it for He would receive nothing that would becloud his mind. We are told to do so would have given Satan an advantage. Desire of Ages Pg 746 in reference to Matthew 27:34