"No, thanks. I've had enough." What freedom there is when these words represent real self-control! But how often when we say "No, thanks" are we really thinking, "I'd love to eat more, but I'm afraid it will make me fat"?
The hygienic craze of diet and body care—the cult of body worship and physical fitness—is widespread. People are looking for physical well-being, but are they looking in the right direction, with the right motives?
Preoccupation with clothes, food, and exercise is a trap; it can become an obsession. Focusing thought on selfhood in matter, we reinforce the conviction that we are finite mortals subject to the ills of matter. We intensify the counterfeit or fleshly sense of man, which is governed by appetites and passions he seems helpless to control.
