There’s a disturbing trend going on in America these days with rewriting science to fit ideology. We’ve gone from fat acceptance to fat celebration. pic.twitter.com/r0zmqtamUl
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) August 6, 2022
There is a reason why gluttony is among the cardinal sins.
And it takes on various forms:
My dear Wormwood,
The contemptuous way in which you spoke of gluttony as a means of catching souls, in your last letter, only shows your ignorance. One of the great achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on that subject, so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled by it in the whole length and breadth of Europe. This has largely been effected by concentrating all our efforts on gluttony of Delicacy, not gluttony of Excess. Your patient’s mother, as I learn from the dossier and you might have learned from Glubose, is a good example. She would be astonished—one day, I hope, will be—to learn that her whole life is enslaved to this kind of sensuality, which is quite concealed from her by the fact that the quantities involved are small. But what do quantities matter, provided we can use a human belly and palate to produce querulousness, impatience, uncharitableness and self-concern? Glubose has this old woman well in hand. She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants. She is always turning from what has been offered her to say with a demure little sigh and a smile ‘Oh please, please … all I want is a cup of tea, weak but not too weak, and the teeniest weeniest bit of really crisp toast’. You see? Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her, she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants, however troublesome it may be to others. At the very moment of indulging her appetite she believes that she is practising temperance. In a crowded restaurant she gives a little scream at the plate which some overworked waitress has set before her and says, ‘Oh, that’s far, far too much! Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it’. If challenged, she would say she was doing this to avoid waste; in reality she does it because the particular shade of delicacy to which we have enslaved her is offended by the sight of more food than she happens to want.”
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Treating people as if they were material objects is a grave sin, as is putting material objects before the people we should be loving.
It’s not all gluttony it’s knowledge.
Everything I learned about weight maintenance I learned from brewing beer and raising chickens.
Starch: carbs, grain.. is all sugar in hiding. Enzymes that convert starch into fermentable sugar are available in malted barley and our saliva.
Sugar is pure fuel, if not burned its stored as fat.
Chickens don’t overeat, however they will gain weight if you either: 1. restrict their exercise OR and this is important… 2. increase the window of time that food is available -such as by leaving a light on.
Keep the carbs and sugar down. Don’t eat processed food, it’s been engineered to be fat, salty and full of carbs. Eat a balanced diet. Eat a late breakFAST and an early supper. It’s not natural for a man to reach into a refrigerator at 5AM or 10PM and eat. I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner between 10AM to 6PM. Get plenty of exercise. It’s not natural for a man not to do physical work. And drink a lot of water. For me black coffee on the treadmill before 10AM is fine, 6PM one (1) beer to start fast while lifting some weights is perfect. Water all day. Milk is for babies.
A friend of mine says: “you do all this in order to be able to drink beer and not gain weight”.
That’s true. 🙂
Alot of “Pride” floating around these days. Gay pride, Shout your abortion pride and now Transgender pride.
Nature seems to inconveniently disturb all the prideful acts that go against nature. Funny that.
Not so funny;
https://www.wsj.com/articles/health-authorities-issue-new-advice-for-avoiding-monkeypox-11659719957?reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Keep the carbs and sugar down. Don’t eat processed food, it’s been engineered to be fat, salty and full of carbs. Eat a balanced diet. Eat a late breakFAST and an early supper. It’s not natural for a man to reach into a refrigerator at 5AM or 10PM and eat. I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner between 10AM to 6PM. Get plenty of exercise. It’s not natural for a man not to do physical work. And drink a lot of water. For me black coffee on the treadmill before 10AM is fine, 6PM one (1) beer to start fast while lifting some weights is perfect. Water all day. Milk is for babies.
You’re a tiresome scold.
The reason that the “fat acceptance” stuff got going is because the prior theories did not work.
When people are lied to enough, they go elsewhere; when someone follows a doctor’s advice painstakingly, does not get the desired results, and is then called a liar because the theory failed– I know multiple women who were told that they “must” be eating in their sleep– or when experts tell someone that a result of their medical condition caused that which it followed, even when treatments they were taking are noted for causing weight gain– people will ignore the supposed experts.
We have known for decades, now, that children who are starved in the womb gain weight very easily, and even their children are noted for gaining weight every easily. (Grandchildren of WWII survivors who were starving while pregnant– the survival mechanism at work here is obvious.)
On top of that, different individuals– not just ancestries, but even siblings– will respond differently to different foods, as has been established in studies of diabetics.
But complicated answers do not lend themselves well to any of the varieties of moral substitution around food.
After all, you only want what is best for them, right?
You’re a tiresome scold.
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No. They are disciplined. If you don’t need discipline to maintain your health be glad & thank God. My genetics & injuries result in my having to focus on my health constantly with such disciplines. I have kept diabetes off for 12 years with such disciplines, for example. Such disciplines & God’s pure grace have enabled me to work for 30 years despite having multiple chronic disabling conditions that have put a lot of folks at home on narcotics drawing social security disability. Thank God!
Don, thanks so much for the video of the priest explaining what gluttony is. The Lord has been dealing with me about this for an extended time now. I did not even realize He was dealing with me about these things because they were a sin & I was a slave in various areas re: gluttony. I need to take notes on this priest’s instructions & focus some prayer time on this area. Thank you so much!
It’s not all gluttony it’s knowledge.
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No. It is gluttony. If food that we don’t need is set in front of us, statistically, 90% of us will eat it. Knowledge is important, but we all know things to do/not do that we do not follow through on.
Scold?
It can’t all be gluttony.
Our ancestors for many many millennia, didn’t turn the electric light on and reach into the refrigerator at 6 AM and then again at 8 PM fourteen hours later. They hunted, gathered and later worked the farm at Dawn, had breakfast mid morning, and went to bed when the sun went down.
If you eat over 14 hours instead of 8, you’re going to gain weight. It’s really that simple.
Gluttony is very real.
But people also eat/drink/shop/consume entertainment when they are bored or want a mood boost. Boredom is a dangerous state to leave yourself in.
If you are honest with yourself then the cause of excessive and unregulated consumption of anything always comes down to spiritual problem.
Father Mike explanation is fantastic!