It does if you are young
I don't think that is true.
Do you have children? I've seen large families where all the children have the same "lifestyle", level of activity, and eat at the same table -- yet some just magically start getting obese at a certain age, as if a switch was thrown. Their genes, their body's blueprint desperately wants to be that different shape. It's sad, because you know it's not their fault, and that they will have to feel hungry at all times if they want to even fight it.
What form of gluttony are you proposing that "fat" child is guilty of? He doesn't eat between meals (praepropere), he isn't eating exotic food, he isn't eating "too much", just eating until he feels full. He isn't eating like a pig in a trough, but eating in the same manner/speed as all the other children. And he certainly isn't getting his own custom plate of food prepared; he's eating from the same table.
So...once you've eliminated all the forms of gluttony -- how is he guilty of gluttony? You have to be specific.
The 5 forms of gluttony spells out the acronym PLANS by the way. This CI member should have re-ordered it; I would have.
In his Summa Theologica (Part 2-2, Question 148, Article 4), St. Thomas Aquinas reiterated the list of five ways to commit gluttony:
- Laute – eating food that is too luxurious, exotic, or costly
- Studiose – eating food that is excessive in quality (too daintily or elaborately prepared)
- Nimis – eating food that is excessive in quantity (too much)
- Praepropere – eating hastily (too soon or at an inappropriate time)
- Ardenter – eating greedily (too eagerly)
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