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It is in consequence of this powerful force of habit, that of late.

Indeed, during my own lifetime and memory, three evil customs have gradually gained foothold in our own Italy.

The first of these is adulation and ceremony.

The second is heresy.

And the third is intemperance.

You're listening to the words of an Italian merchant named Luigi Cornaro, voiced by an actor, because Luigi himself died in 1566. And if there was one thing that Luigi was really into, it was his diet. He calls

eating too much, that evil. And the fact that it's so common.

A wicked thing.

And yet society at the time doesn't treat it that way.

Overeating is exalted as a virtuous thing and even as a mark of distinction.

While temperance, also known as moderate eating, is stigmatized and scorned as

dishonorable and as befitting the miserly alone.

Luigi is sort of the original diet guru. What you're hearing is the beginning of his book,

The Art of Living Long.

In it, he points out that overeating is gluttony, a literal sin. He's arguing that eating less

is not just better, but also more moral. He says that men are...

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