Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

Overcrowding the Stomach Weakens the
Mind.—Overeating, even of the most wholesome
food, is to be guarded against. Nature can use no
more than is required for building up the various
organs of the body, and excess clogs the system.
Many a student is supposed to have broken down
from overstudy, when the real cause was
overeating. While proper attention is given to the
laws of health there is little danger from mental
taxation, but in many cases of so-called mental
failure it is the overcrowding of the stomach that
wearies the body and weakens the mind.—
Education, 205 (1903).
Indulgence Blunts Nobler Sentiments of
Mind.—The indulgence of appetite in overeating is
gluttony. The great variety of foods often taken at
one meal is enough to create a disordered stomach
and a disordered temper. Therefore God requires of
every human being cooperation with Him, that
none may go beyond his proper boundary in
overeating or in partaking of improper articles of
food. This indulgence strengthens the animal
propensities and blunts the nobler sentiments of the
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