Risk of Great Eaters

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1875

Risk of Great Eaters.

Great eaters never live long. A voracious appetite, so far from being a sign of good health, is a certain indication of disease. Some dyspeptics are always hungry, and feel best when eating; but as soon as they have finished eating they endure torments so distressing in their nature as to make the unhappy victim wish for death.

The appetite of health is that which is inclined to eat moderately when eating-time comes, and which, when satisfied, leaves no unpleasant reminders. Multitudes measure their health by the quantity they eat; and, out of ten persons, nine are gratified with an increase of weight, when in reality it indicates an increase in disease, showing that the absorbents of the system are too weak to discharge their duty, and the tendency to fatness, or obesity, increases until existence becomes a burden, and sudden death closes the painful history.—Hall’s Journal.