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there is already too much on hand. A baby suffering from indigestion acts ravenous. A grown-up stomach that is generating ferments calls for more, more, And soother meal piled in gives temporary relief, just as kneading more flour into a batch of bread dough gives temporary relief from ferment.
What world happen to the dough if you kept on kneading it down with more flour, a dozen, a hundred, yes, thousands of times. The result would be unwieldiness and poison.. The same thing happens in the continuously overloaded stomach, and throughout the overloaded body.
And no amount of mental or spiritual science will stop it, though it may retard the process, as cold retards the rising of your bread dough.. In this way you may put off the day of reckoning with an overloaded stomach and body, but that is all you can do. The death-poison will get you sooner or later.
There is little danger of giving the builder within you too little material first, because the body of every person tarries enough building material in storage to last a complete famine of thirty to sixty days, or more; second, because the normal hunger of an unstuffed and untempted body is an infallible guide to the amount and kind of food needed.
All our overeating comes from, first, the false belief that strength is gained from eating; second, the
