How To Eat To Live - Book 1 Quotes

“The more idle our stomachs are, the longer they will last. The more we tax our stomach, the sooner it wears out.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“as the hog is a scavenger of the earth. Shrimp, crabs, oysters, catfish, eels (water snakes), and many other species of the water; all types of beans, peas, and nuts were not produced by nature for us to try to use as a diet for our delicate stomachs to digest -- not to mention the pig.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“Allah (God), in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom praise is due forever,”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“The Pig The hog takes away the beautiful appearance of people and takes away their shyness. The people who eat the hog have no shyness because they eat the hog. Nature did not give the hog any shyness. God, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, taught me that the scientists have found that the hog carries 999 poisonous germs in it and they are not 100 percent poison, but nearly 1000 per cent poison. The swine takes away our life gradually and creates worms in our bodies.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“D.D.T., which is sprayed on food while it is growing up from the earth, is also a poison that should not be put into the human body, regardless of the desire to kill insects, that loves to dine on the same food on which we dine.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“The scientist should not advocate the use of such poisonous chemicals as fluoride, chloride, and sodium, which may have a bad effect on our brains and our human reproductive organs.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

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― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“The main meat that our people like to eat is what they have been taught not to eat -- the cheap and filthily-raised hog. This is a divinely-prohibited flesh. This truth has been before our eyes ever since we have had permission from the white man to read the Bible. Nothing good is said about it in the Bible in Leviticus.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“Mothers should feed their babies from their breast milk if they possibly can, as this is the best. When you are able to start feeding them on solid food, give them weak bean soup -- not the highly seasoned, strong soup that you eat. You also can start them out with orange juice and mashed apples.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“Eat whole wheat bread, but not the whole grain. The whole grain is too hard to digest. Never eat freshly cooked bread. It rises and buckles in the stomach. Eating freshly cooked bread will shorten your life.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“Do not eat field peas, black-eyed peas, speckled peas, red peas or brown peas. Do not eat lima beans, or baby limas. Do not eat any bean but the small navy bean -- the little brown pink ones, and the white ones.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“The catfish is a very filthy fish. He loves filth and is the pig of the water. Some people write in, complaining about the fish that swim on their sides, but these fish can be eaten.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“As I said previously do not eat the scavengers of the sea such as oysters, crabs, clams, snails, shrimp, eels, or catfish.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“Remember, life is what we make of it. Stay away from hog (the swine), the stinking tobacco weed, the hot fiery alcohol, wine, beer, drugs, foolishness, ignorance, madness, drunkenness, gambling, murdering, robbery, deceitfulness, lying, mockery and seeking to take advantage of your brother and your sister, and believe in the presence of God”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“The fast destroys the accumulation of food poison.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“We must not be confused, I repeat, with the various advice offered to us from the modern-day food and medical scientists. If you take their advice and try to eat all of the different kinds of food, cooked in their many different ways, at all different times of the day, and their many different suggestions on how much you should eat, you will most certainly die. Brother and sisters, I repeat: it will most certainly kill you -- with the exception of the Orthodox Jews’ food, which is good.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“The Christians have made holidays which are used mostly for commercialization. They buy wine, whiskey and beer and fatten up pigs and hogs for the kill and roast this divinely-prohibited flesh to celebrate what the Christians call the birthday of the Son of Mary. Jesus condemned such things as drunkenness and the eating of swine flesh.”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1

“The Bible says that He will give us more life abundantly, but He demands strict obedience to His Will. There is no way of prolonging the life of human beings or any other life unless it begins with restrictions of the foods which sustain life, the right kinds of food and the proper time when it should be taken into our bodies. Jehovah”
― Elijah Muhammad, How To Eat To Live - Book 1