The condition of the physical body can affect the spirit.

The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.