Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD

Board-Certified Cardiologist

Overeating is simply terrible for our hearts along with the rest of our bodies. This is because eating until we are full (overeating) results in the formation of bad internal fat. The medical term for this is visceral adipose tissue (VAT or abdominal obesity). Oozing from this harmful VAT, there are many toxins that cause inflammation to occur throughout our bodies especially in our blood vessels. All blood vessels, joints, muscles, and organs are damaged by this process. The medical term for these toxins is pro-inflammatory adipocytokines (PIACs). Our bodies are essentially being destroyed by a constant state of internal civil war when these PIACs are around so that we have aches and pains, our blood pressure is up and down (more up than down), we have trouble either concentrating or remembering things, we have difficulty sleeping, our cholesterol is elevated, and we are starting to have type-2 diabetes (or already have it along with heart disease).

Yes, we now know it is wrong for us to overeat (eat until we are full) and yet we keep doing it. This is a compulsion because we are doing something that we know to be harmful. Yes, this is also a loss of free will. When there is a loss of free will, we can pretty much forget about using willpower to get out of trouble especially when we essentially live in a feed lot.

If you are also smoking tobacco products to kill your hunger in order to keep from overeating, you will also need to learn what is required to stop smoking in order to become healthier (hungrier) to lose the VAT.

Please consider using the following script to do homework that will help you overcome the compulsion to overeat. You have my permission to freely copy this web page without any modification for personal use or to direct others to this page so that they may also receive help.

Part A -- Easy
Mission: Informing folks that hunger is wonderful.

Neighbor (standard southern greeting): "How are you?"

You (smiling): "Wonderfully hungry."

Part B -- Challenging
Mission: Convince your neighbor that you are not crazy and that being hungry is indeed wonderful.

Neighbor (thinking you are crazy): "Why is being hungry wonderful?"

(Alternate expressions of disbelief would be "Say what?!?!" or "Then why aren't you stopping everything to go eat?")

You (earnestly): "Because my heart doctor has taught me that only when we are hungry does our bodies get rid of the bad inside fat that is hurting us by causing inflammation everywhere so that our bodies fall apart. Indeed, because of this bad inside fat, I have been having high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, and arthritis so that I hurt all over."

(This works to convince your neighbor that you are not crazy because crazy people neither see heart doctors nor do they learn from being taught. Your neighbor will likely also discover that you both share medical problems thereby building a rapport as s/he becomes convinced that being hungry is indeed wonderful because it is the only way to lose the bad inside fat and that s/he wants to learn how to become hungrier.)

Neighbor: "How do I become hungry?"

You: "By eating less, down to the right amount."

Neighbor: "What is the right amount?"

You: "32 ounces per day. This is the 2PD-OMER Approach."

Part C - Bonus
Mission: Get your neighbor to laugh by showing him/her where the problem is.

Neighbor: "Thank you for teaching me what your heart doctor taught you. Good bye."

You: "Be hungry."

Neighbor: (Laughs and smiles upon realizing that the problem resides in the heart and will need to do as you are doing to become absolutely convinced in the mind that "hunger is wonderful" to overcome the compulsion to overeat while waiting for the necessary "change of heart" that will depend on GOD).

Know that the more convinced you become, the more convincing you will be. It is after you become absolutely convinced in your mind that hunger is wonderful that the time becomes right for GOD to give you that "change of heart" which will make everything in your life more right. When HE does, it will be your responsibility to protect your heart from being trashed again by those who remain deluded.
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