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Rh and color. Many victims of this vice will say "I never overeat. Why, I hardly eat anything—I have no appetite—I merely eat enough to keep up my strength."

The one who loads his stomach to its fullest capacity is not so great a sinner as he who merely eats under the idiotic idea that he is keeping up his strength. When one loads the stomach to repletion he usually eats with appetite, the food is invited, but the "eat-to-keep- up-my-strength " idiot never allows his stomach to prepare for food, never gives it sufficient rest that it may develop an appetite, and under these circumstances indulgence in the smallest possible quantity of food would be overeating.