A question about Gluttony?

[catholicgirl201]

What is the definition of Gluttony?
When would somebody be guilty of gluttony?
If you have your 3 meals a day and maybee 1 or 2 snacks is anything over that guilty of gluttony?
How many meals and snacks are normal for the average person?

 

[Castello]

Gluttony is not “overeating” as much as it is the inordinate love or abuse of food.

One way to work on avoiding the deadly sins is to cultivate the opposite virtues.

scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2290.htm

2290 The virtue of temperance disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco, or medicine. Those incur grave guilt who, by drunkenness or a love of speed, endanger their own and others’ safety on the road, at sea, or in the air.

 

[Luna_Lovecraft]

If you have your 3 meals a day and maybee 1 or 2 snacks is anything over that guilty of gluttony?

No

How many meals and snacks are normal for the average person?

There are too many variables to say with accuracy. Everyone has dietary needs depending on one’s age, health, and activity level. What a 16-year-old footballer needs to eat to stay health is going to be vastly different than what my 95-year-old great-aunt needs to eat.

Luna

 

[LiveCatholic]

What is the definition of Gluttony?
When would somebody be guilty of gluttony?
If you have your 3 meals a day and maybee 1 or 2 snacks is anything over that guilty of gluttony?
How many meals and snacks are normal for the average person?

Why the concern?

 

[Catholic90]

How many meals and snacks are normal for the average person?

There is no average.

Some people graze all day, eating little bits here and there. That is actually a healthy way of eating, versus overloading your body with greater amounts of food. However, that is not possible for many people, given jobs, school, etc.

 

[Matrix_Refugee]

Gluttony is a pretty tricky vice to p(name removed by moderator)oint since everyone has different nutritional needs and different metabolisms. A construction worker who works from sun up to sundown during the summer isn’t going to get by on, say, what a ninety-year woman needs.

Gluttony isn’t just the realm of, say, the medieval stereotype of the morbidly obese person who eats enough at one sitting to feed a starving family in Africa for three days. I think it was Peter Kreeft, riffing from G.K. Chesterton, who pointed out that there’s a form that could be called “delicate gluttony” where a person is overly picky about what they eat, how it’s cooked, etc. Like the mincy aunt who wants her toast made just right and her eggs cooked just so or she pitches a cow over it. The bottom line, it would seem, is that the person makes what they eat the center of their life and they let themselves be controlled by their comestibles.