It’s better to eat less than more. In FAST FOOD NATION author Eric Schlosser writes, “Obesity is now second only to smoking as a cause of mortality in the United States. The CDC (Center for Disease Control) estimates that about 280,000 Americans die every year as a direct result of being overweight? Srila Prabhupada put it this way: “Better eat less than eat more. You’ll not die by eating less. But you may die eating more. People die for overeating, not for under-eating. This should be the principle. Here… Medical science always forbids not eating more than you require (from a lecture on verse 1.8.37 from Srimad Bhagavatam delivered on 29 April 1973 in Los Angeles).