...A true saying is, this gluttony kills more than the sword; this all-devouring and murdering gut...And that of Pliny is truer, "Simple diet is the best; heaping up of several meats is pernicious, and sauces worse; many dishes bring many diseases."...Thence, sayeth Fenelius, come crudities, wind, oppilations, cacophymia, plethora, cachexia, bradypepsia, sudden death, etc., and whatnot.
An insatiable paunch is a pernicious sink, and the fountain of all diseases, both of body and mind.
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics)
