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54. The right one comes naturally from a perfectly satisfied feeling—a ceasing of desire for anything more, no matter how alluring to the palate—before the stomach is overburdened. The former is evidence of glut, or gluttony, and the latter is Nature's way, for which there is every desired reward."—Horace Fletcher. The gastric and various other juices, so necessary in the stomach's perfect work of digestion, are not supplied in sufficient quantities, nor of proper strength, when overeating is habitually indulged in. This naturally causes serious complications, for which every remedy known to medical science has been prescribed without avail, unless the causes of the condition were discovered, and removed.

Thus, you can readily perceive that these two results of overeating—the weakening of all the belt of muscles about the stomach and other vital organs that carry on involuntarily the very necessary work in connection with the digestive process, and the lessening in quantity and quality of the digestive juices—would