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Marketing experts adapt people to the habit of eating not just one chip, but the whole bag. The problem with this doctrine is we get fat and confused.<\/p>\n

Many year ago, by sheer circumstance I was recuperating from an accident and found I just couldn\u2019t eat very much at a time. One chip, or rather saltine cracker, was enough. Oddly, I discovered one cracker did the trick of quieting hunger pangs.<\/p>\n

After a quick recuperation, I found myself eating<\/a> but with more spiritual insight. I was able to stop myself from reaching for more chips.<\/p>\n

When hunger pangs hit, I can sometimes overlook the pangs and keep about my work, not eating calories I don\u2019t need. When the pangs are voracious, however I slowly eat one bite of a healthy oat bar (sometimes its one bite of ice-cream) and sure enough the pang is quiet enough that I can go about my business.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the \u201cone chip is enough\u201d theory holds weight better for me. Or rather the theory doesn’t hold too much<\/strong> weight. I find a contentedness <\/a>in not giving food so much power. One chip is fine.<\/p>\n

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“All creatures look to you<\/span>to give them their food at the proper time.” Psalms 104:27 NIV
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