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Food is not bad&#8230; you have to eat to live; <em>overeating<\/em> food is incredibly damaging to all organs and the resulting fat crowds all the organs, including the lungs, the liver, and the kidneys. Money is not the problem; it is the <em>love<\/em> of money, wanting more, hoarding, being stingy or tight-fisted. It is greed\u2026 <em>greed<\/em> is idolatry. More is not better. 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