Overeating or Gluttony
It is human need to eat something from time to time. But whatever bad we see or find in the world is gluttony which means habitual greed or excess in eating. In the broader sense it means over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or wealth items to the point of extravagance or waste. It stands for the excessive desires for food and sex and it is a tendency indicating self-feebleness, greedy nature, and slavery of instincts.
There are some reasons for gluttony and overdosing. The following reason we find:
1. Human greed for filling one's stomach with more and more food
2. Worms in belly which eats what we eat (For example, the symptoms of tapeworms is extreme kind of hunger
3. Temptation towards delicious foods
4. Reaction to long termed poverty or hunger etc.
5. Stress and Depression
How Does a Glutton Look Like
While eating food with extreme kind of greed and concentration, one seems to be like a dog. Gluttony is worse than even the eating style of dogs.It seems that one's taste overrules the taste and one's want want outweighs need.
How To Avoid Gluttony
There is a common proverb: Eat to live, don't live to eat.
Food in whatever form we have is necessary for life but the choice is ours whether eat good but less tasty food or no good but spicy and more delicious food. It is an open truth that those who devour well seasoned foods invite some health problems which later on take an alarming dimension. Spices are not bad but their maximum and unnecessary use causes stomach burning or peptic ulcer. In the beginning spicy food give you the taste of the tongue and mouth as whole but the later effects create big problems for stomach and intestines. Please avoid using too much and too many spices. If we want avoid gluttony we are in strict need to develop a limit of appetites for other pleasant and good things,such as reading good literature, reading good books, enjoying nature, work for the sake of enjoyment.
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