Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I am a Dominican friar of the province of

St. Joseph, and this is Pints with Aquinas.

In this episode, I'd like to talk about gluttony.

We've done a few of the capital vices, or the seven deadly sins in previous episodes.

I've left this off until now because it felt right, and now it feels especially right.

So gluttony is going to be a super sensitive issue.

It's going to be an issue about which people have strong impressions and strong positions.

So we are going to not so much tread lightly as tread responsibly, and treating this particular

issue and hopefully shining some light on the darkness, which has been cast by our ambient

culture, which is so wonky when it comes to food and drink.

So here we go.

Alright, at the outset, we want to acknowledge that food and drink and their consumption

is a sensitive issue, and we want to respect, kind of, honor the sensitivity of that for

many persons.

So just from a perspective of health and wellness, we know that there are a variety of healthy

approaches or legitimate expressions.

Because it's going to depend in large part on your constitution, your temperament, on

your body type.

It's going to depend on your own kind of formation.

It's going to depend on your history, like something like a gut biome, a super sensitive,

and maybe you've just run rough shot over it for a long time, and now you're trying to

get it back in shape, and it's going to take some time still.

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