Reply To: 'Halachic Dinner" – What do you think about it?

“These considerations would unquestionably cause one to spurn the pleasure of eating, showing its good to be not truly good and its evil to be truly evil….One will be made especially aware of the truth of what is being said if he considers the many sicknesses connected with eating or at least the heaviness that one experiences after meals and the vapors that becloud his brain” -mesilas yesharim

The fact that so many people got sick is a great example of why mesilas yesharim is the most widely cherished mussar sefer.