Pope warns overeating is ‘avenue of personal destruction’

VATICAN CITY – The pope on Wednesday contrasted the world’s 820 million hungry people with those who turn food into “an avenue of personal destruction” through overeating, in comments to mark World Food Day.

Pope Francis noted that the “distorted relationship between food and nutrition” has left almost 700 million people overweight, “victims of improper dietary habits”.“We are in fact witnessing how food is ceasing to be a means of subsistence and turning into an avenue of personal destruction,” the pontiff said in a message to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.

People suffer from diabetes and heart disease because of overeating, but also from anorexia and bulimia through deliberate undereating, the pope said.

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