Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And from now through January, we will all get to witness free market gluttony at its best: Commercially-driven caloric consumption sponsored by Kraft, or Pepsi, or Snickers or practically any food or beverage manufacturer you can imagine. They're all in this together, and in order for them to profit over the next quarter, consumers have to CONSUME! |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 A Caribbean cruise I took with my wife should have been called the gluttony cruise because people spent the majority of their time eating as much food as possible, and I was no exception. Sure, I made my way to the ship's fitness center three times during the week, and I swam a few times too. But my caloric intake far exceeded my metabolic rate and my activity level, which resulted in increased pounds. Thanksgiving arrived a few weeks later, and the feeding frenzy continued. |
| Gluttony describes the action of overindulging in food intake beyond what your body needs.
When you examine the increase in obesity in our society, you have no other choice but to conclude that we are transforming ourselves into a nation of gluttons. We are consuming in excess without concern for consequence. Most of our diseases are self-inflicted because of our uncontrolled actions, which are also making us lazy and less active.
Getting on my body scale everyday and looking in the mirror goes a long way to keeping me on track with my own health and fitness goals. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 A government official who was in danger of dying from the ill effects of gluttony asked Eisai to pray for his recovery. Rather than trusting this man's fate solely to the power of prayer, Eisai directed the official to drink tea that Eisai himself had cultivated and prepared. After the official recovered, Eisai gave him a copy of his book, and the official became a strong tea supporter. As the amazing story of tea's contribution to this man's recovery from deathly illness spread, demand for and cultivation of tea increased throughout the island country of Japan. |
Michael Pollan
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 At the dinner table parents can determine portion sizes, model eating and drinking behavior, and enforce social norms about greed and gluttony and waste. Shared meals are about much more than fueling bodies; they are uniquely human institutions where our species developed language and this thing we call culture. Do I need to go on?
All this is so well understood that when pollsters ask Americans if they eat together as a family most nights, they offer a resounding—and resoundingly untrue—reply in the affirmative. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Food companies and the fast-food industry have used marketing as well as the science of food technology to trigger wanton gluttony in a way that is eerily similar to the methods the tobacco companies employed to develop more addictive cigarettes. The food industry, through lobbying, coercion, greed, and advertising, has influenced us to make dietary choices that fatten us up and harm our health. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Additionally, the old perception that obesity is caused by a lack of willpower or gluttony has been replaced with a better scientific understanding of the genetics and biology that predispose certain individuals to gain weight in our current environment [78].
The discovery of leptin in the mid-1990s established the existence of a genetically controlled complex biological system for food intake and weight regulation. |
| This is consistent with the difficulty of detecting the underlying dietary contribution and lack of overt gluttony. However, episodic gains due to acute marked excess intake could also be difficult to detect if dietary assessments are not conducted at the times of these imbalances. If they occur in conjunction with holidays and special events, they may be times when efforts to collect dietary information are curtailed in the knowledge that they are not reflective of customary behavior. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 There is an implication that one contributing factor to the fall of the Roman empire was the decadent practice of gluttony. Perhaps this was also true in France before the Revolution. An aristocratic dinner served the night before the French Revolution was reported to have nine courses made from one kind of meat that was prepared in twenty-two different ways.16 When one realizes that an estimated 34 million adult Americans are considered obese, there is some real concern for the spiritual state of our country. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Yogic rules of conduct require a person to avoid the following: injuring, lying, stealing, attachment to sensual desires, attachment to grievances, immersion in inertia, attachment to self interests, attachment to consumption, and gluttony. Hygiene and moderation in lifestyle are a focus. Traditionally, the practitioner of yoga is encouraged to eat simple unprocessed vegetarian food and to avoid intoxicants of any kind.
It is believed that if a person follows the above guidelines, they will be free from worry and stress. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Here is the most important thing to understand about cravings: They are not caused by weak will or gluttony. Cravings are triggered by biological properties of the foods themselves. That is, certain foods have chemical makeups that cause us to crave them in very much the same way that drugs, alcohol, and tobacco have addictive components.
Let me be clear: Only certain foods lend themselves to cravings. The same foods are alluring to almost everyone.
Four types of foods trigger biochemical effects not unlike those of addictive drugs. |
Carlo Petrini
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 I saw him enjoy food without gluttony, thanks to his knowledge and his ability to taste.
Lastly, I would like to pay tribute to Folco Portinari, poet and writer (he was one of the editors of La Gola, the pioneering Italian magazine which revolutionized gastronomic discourse), with whom in the 1980s I formed, in the context of the Arcigola association," a kind of intellectual partnership that still continues today. |
| The first represents economics and subsistence, serious subjects with a scientific basis; the second is associated with pleasure and the culture of foodmere divertissement and hedonism, play and gluttony, of no importance at all. This fictitious separation has for centuries relegated gastronomy to the realm of folklore, denying it any scientific dignity and associating it only with the sphere of leisure, with the village fete, and with the media rage for regional and traditional products, with disputes about the ranking of restaurants. |
Greg Critser
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 In the battle against obesity and the chronic diseases that flow from it, talking about gluttony and sloth — the overconsumption of calories from food and the underexpenditure of calories from sitting on one's rump — will, today, get you exactly one thing: an egg in the face for stigmatizing people. Science shows that getting fat is not simply due to eating too many doughnuts or OD'ing on TV. It is about genes and about environment, about social class and status. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 Plus, still reveling in my panna gluttony, I remember the power of pleasure. Anna and I swear never to touch another soda as long as we live.
Planting "Zones for Freedom"
The next day we take a packed train from Delhi to where Navdanya and the Research Foundation began, to Vandana's hometown of Dehra Dun, a city of almost 300,000 nestled in a Northern Indian valley in the foothills of the Himalaya.
Arriving at the station, we're swept into the crowd of passengers, wondering at first how our guides will find us until we realize we're the only Westerners here. |
David Bodanis
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 Pretense is dropped, and gluttony revealed. The guests grab at the hors d'oeuvres, keen to swipe the nouvelle cuisine suggested crackers covered in peanut butter, the celery sticks and the best of everything else on the tray. They struggle to chew fast, to swallow it all, for there are more starters on the table, and unless they get it all down it might be removed, pulled from their grasp and carted back into the kitchen before they have even had a chance! |
David Wolfe
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 This is because cooked food can be swallowed so easily without chewing, whereas thorough mastication is essential to good health." — Dugald Semple, The Sunfood Way To Health
"Your food determines in a large measure how long you shall live — how much you shall enjoy life, and how successful your life shall be." — Dr. Kirschner, Live Food Juices
What we eat deeply and radically affects the way we think, feel and behave. We are what we eat, and we eat what we are. Food affects every aspect of our being. Food is the foundation of our physical body. |
William Duffy
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 When gluttony and excess became widespread, religious codes and commandments were invoked against it. gluttony is a capital sin in most religions; but there are no specific religious warnings or commandments against refined sugar because sugar abuse—like drug abuse—did not appear on the world scene until centuries after holy books had gone to press.
"Why must we accept as normal what we find in a race of sick and weakened human beings?" Dr. Herbert M. Shelton asks. "Must we always take it for granted that the present eating practices of civilized men are normal? |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
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 In my ignorance and gluttony I had eaten the core of the pineapple, which was packed with papain, the active ingredient of commercial meat tenderizers. Anyone who has eaten a green papaya, the namesake of this enzyme, probably has had a similar experience.
Plants have not always come out ahead of the hungry herbivores.
The same evolutionary pressure that leads to development or secondary plant compounds also selects for counteradaptive responses by the herbivores. For example, the painted daisy Chrysanthemum coccineum has been called the Lucretia Borgia of the garden. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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 The common perception in our society is that thin is beautiful, fat is ugly, and obesity is a reflection of gluttony and sloth. Being fat can affect your marital status, your social life, and your pocketbook. Working women who are very overweight earn almost $7,000 less per year than their slimmer counterparts, and their chances of getting married are also decreased by 20 percent. Although fat men are not affected economically, they are less likely to marry. Most people want to lose weight. However, they rarely admit cosmetic or economic motivation. |
Dr. John Heinerman
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 Early signs include voluminous discharge of urine in a given period, chronic excessive intake of water, gluttony, and weight loss. Later symptoms include loss of appetite, laziness, depression, and vomiting. Obesity with recent weight loss is typical for most cases.
Sometimes canines may develop cataracts in later stages of the disease. Cats commonly experience dorsal muscle wasting and an oily coat with dandruff. Both species are also prone to liver enlargement, but jaundice is more prevalent in cats, as a rule. Cats occasionally develop diabetic neuropathy, but not that often. |
James Braly M.D. and Ron Hoggan M.A.
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 Brain Disorders and Gluten odern gluten gluttony has even invaded the private recesses of our minds. In this chapter we outline many of the psychiatric and neurological problems that can result from gluten sensitivity. The elimination of dietary gluten might soon replace many more expensive and ponderously slow conventional psychiatric treatments. |
Carol Krucoff and Mitchell Krucoff, M.D.
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 The cause is not gluttony," says epidemiologist Claude Bouchard, a professor at Laval University in Quebec. "We're actually eating a bit less." The cause isn't fat intake either, since our diets are 33 to 34 percent fat now and used to be 40 percent fat.
Instead, Bouchard and other health professionals say that the driving force behind our growing girth is the dramatic decline in physical activity. "No need to do rocket science to conclude that we are expending less energy than did our grandparents, who had to chop wood and fetch water to survive," he says. |
James Braly M.D. and Ron Hoggan M.A.
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| The worldwide epidemic is the plague of gluten gluttony, an overconsumption of wheat, rye, barley, and other gluten cereals by the vulnerable, genetically predisposed.
It is the explicit and recurring theme of this book that eating gluten grains drives much of mankind's chronic illness and that our escalating consumption of these grains is countering the many medical advances that are working to extend our lives. Through understanding the dynamics by which this occurs, our readers will be powerfully armed to protect themselves and their loved ones. |
E. Richard Brown
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 The cost of sloth, gluttony, alcoholic intemperance, reckless driving, sexual frenzy, and smoking have now become a national, not an individual, responsibility, all justified as individual freedom," asserts Dr. John Knowles, the influential president of the Rockefeller Foundation. "But one man's or woman's freedom in health is now another man's shackle in taxes and insurance premiums." Knowles sternly warns that "the cost of individual irresponsibility in health has become prohibitive. |
Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley
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 Yet because of how we prepare and overeat them on the holiday, they've become a symbol of gluttony instead. That's a shame. Prepared with an emphasis on health, this is the kind of meal that can do us a world of good.
Nutritionally, turkey is similar to chicken-a lower-fat alternative to fatty meats that contains less saturated fat, too. As with chicken, the light meat has fewer calories and less fat than the dark, but feel free to enjoy both unless you must cut your fat intake dramatically.
Forego the skin if you can, for that's where most of the fat lurks. |
Jean Antonello
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 And they remember the sermon about gluttony. They remember the never-ending longing to have a normal appetite and a normal body—just to be able to eat without worrying about it all the time. And they remember the labels: compulsive overeater, food addict, emotional binger, freak, pig. No wonder they are sad and angry.
POWER
People who have been victimized have to get over it if they want to get on with productive and successful lives. Nearly all of us have, at one time or another, experienced victimization. |
| They are biologically programmed to seasonal gluttony. In my opinion, bears don't overeat because of emotional problems or stress. People don't either.
HOW DOES A BODY DO IT?
At least five specific adaptive mechanisms at work keep under-eaters alive. These adaptive responses, inspired by undereating, are responsible for the hunger havoc and other symptoms that eating-disturbed people experience. |
William Duffy
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| The Turks use themselves to gluttony and are no more so free and courageous to go against their enemies to fight as they had been in former ages." This may be the first recorded warning from the scientific community on the subject of sugar abuse and its observed consequences. The word scientist was not to be coined until 1840; the test tube and the laboratory were a good way off; but Rauwolf seems to have had the insight to view human beings as whole men in an environment with a history rather than a litany of labeled symptoms.3
After the rise of Islam, sugar became potent political stuff. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 They are: pride, covetousness (greed), lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
Seventh-Day Adventists A denomination of Christians who proclaim that the Second Coming of Jesus will occur in the very near future. Unlike practically all other Christians, they observe Saturday, rather than Sunday, as a Sabbath.
Shi'ite and Sunni Moslems (sHEE-eyt, soo-nee) The two main groups of Islam, of which the Sunnis are the majority. The split rose from an early dispute over who should be the leader of Islam after the death of Mohammed. |
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