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Reasons To Cooperate With God In Avoiding OvereatingReasons To Cooperate With God In Avoiding Overeating
Overcrowding the Stomach Weakens the Mind.--Overeating, even of the most wholesome food, is to be guarded against. Nature can use no more than is required for building up the various organs of the body, and excess clogs the system. Many a student is supposed to have broken down from overstudy, when the real cause was overeating. While proper attention is given to the laws of health there is little danger from mental taxation, but in many cases of so-called mental failure it is the overcrowding of the stomach that wearies the body and weakens the mind.--Ed 205 (1903). {2MCP 388.2}
Indulgence Blunts Nobler Sentiments of Mind.-- The indulgence of appetite in overeating is gluttony. The great variety of foods often taken at one meal is enough to create a disordered stomach and a disordered temper. Therefore God requires of every human being cooperation with Him, that none may go beyond his proper boundary in overeating or in partaking of improper articles of food. This indulgence strengthens the animal propensities and blunts the nobler sentiments of the mind. The whole being is degraded, and the human agent becomes the slave of appetite, by pampering and indulging his own groveling sensual passions.--MS 113, 1898. {2MCP 388.3}
Overeating Produced Forgetfulness and Loss of Memory (counsel to a gourmand).-- [BEGIN P.389] You are a gourmand when at the table. This is one great cause of your forgetfulness and loss of memory. You say things which I know you have said, and then turn square about and say that you said something entirely different. I knew this, but passed it over as the sure result of overeating. Of what use would it be to speak about it? It would not cure the evil.--Lt 17, 1895. (CD 138.) {2MCP 389.1}
Mind, Character, and Personality, Volume 2;2MCP. 1977;2002 . Southern Publishing Association
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