Thirty two year old Susanne Eman, is a resident of Arizona. Pictures of her bloated body flashed around the world as news agencies publicized her great aspiration in life to become the world's heaviest woman and tip the scales at one ton.  

Suzanne weighs in at 720 pounds and consumes 22,000 calories a day. She is a single mother of two, and can only get around in a motorized scooter. She is unable to work.

Simply put, Suzanne is a glutton. She is calling bad eating choices good and good eating choices bad.  She would receive the condemnation of Isaiah who said. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;” Isaiah 5:20 (NKJV)

Her short life and early death were predicted by Solomon who said, “He who guards his mouth preserves his life, But he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.” Proverbs 13:3 (NKJV)

Obesity is associated with a higher risk of several cancers, including cancer of the thyroid, colon, kidney, liver, gall bladder, pancreas and uterus. But the strongest association between obesity and cancer is with the esophagus. 

The esophagus is a muscular tube that connects your mouth with your stomach. It is made of skin-like cells and your saliva and liquid intake are its' only lubrication for swallowing. 

Smoking cigarettes and drinking alcoholic beverages are major causes of esophageal cancer. Now we need to add obesity too. While general obesity contributes to this risk, abdominal obesity - typically seen in men - is especially risky. 

Liposuction fan, we've got some bad news.

If you suck fat out of your thighs and bottom it will return in your abdomen. If you suck the fat out of your abdomen it will show up on your chest and arms. Bottom line? After liposuction—the fat always comes back—just somewhere else.

Body fat is a simple situation of storage. When you eat more calories than you can burn in a day, the leftovers get turned into fat and sent off to storage sites in your belly, hips and thighs.

Liposuction is an expensive surgical procedure that literally sucks the fat out of areas on your body. It can leave you looking trimmer and smoother and pounds lighter.

If you don't eat less to correspond with your new smaller lighter size, the fat will simply come back again. But it won’t come back to the same places because those fat cells were destroyed when they got sucked out of your body.

Kevin Smith, a well known actor/director, was kicked off a Southwest Air flight on Saturday, February 13, 2010 because he didn’t fit comfortably into the airplane seat.  He was too fat to fly.

Jesus says “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." (Luke 9:23 NKJV) This means that, according to Scripture, all true, actual, practicing, growing, followers of Christ will practice self-denial. Right?

Right. And sometimes that means making difficult choices.

Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest medieval philosophers, recognized that gluttony involved more than eating too much. He developed a list of other ways in which a person might “abuse” food to the point of gluttony. Here are the different ways in which a person can be gluttonous.

Gluttony is a word that isn’t used very often. Many people don’t know what gluttony means. Gluttony is the attitude, focus, and disposition that lead a person to eat too much food.

The glutton is a person who eats too much at meal time and is often found eating between meals. If the taste buds call, the glutton is quick to answer with a snack.

High Definition TV and huge screens have enhanced our home entertainment. Add surround sound and we are immersed in sights and sounds that are truly mesmerizing. Unfortunately, the experience is entirely passive. You don’t have to move a muscle. You just sit there watching and snacking.