[Claud]

I read a lot of colonial literature. The Indians used to not eat for days and even a week or more during the winter when meat was scarce....and they told the French missionaries just to get used to it.

When your stomach if full, almost all your energy goes to digesting food with nothing left over to heal things and produce hormones

So that's why all those old guys (which I guess includes me now) fall asleep on the couch after a holiday meal!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Our bodies evolved under feast-or-famine conditions.

We are not built for continuous feast.