Disputatio medica, de cibo et potu

XXXIV.
Three degrees of food intake can therefore be established: namely, the just measure, satiety, and excessive satiety.

XXXV.
Only the first degree should be maintained, since it does not take in more than nature requires.

XXXVI.
One should rarely arrive at the second degree, since it involves taking in more than is just.

XXXVII.
The third must be completely avoided, since it exceeds all these bounds, burdens the strength, causes disease, and is never useful.

XXXVIII.
A good nature can easily digest as much as it desires: and just as it digests well, so it desires well; nor does it desire more than it can digest.

XXXIX.
Thus, those who are endowed with a warmer stomach digest more than they desire.

XL.
Those, however, who have a colder stomach desire much, but they digest and process what they have consumed poorly.

XLI.
Our body also evidently, and properly, and by its own nature alters the consumed foods by heating, cooling, mois-