As mentioned in previous chapters, the Church had much to say about how the virtues of fasting and meat avoidance contributed to the spiritual health of both men and women. This chapter examines the conflict between recommendations for bodily health and spiritual health, highlighting the sometimes uneasy compromise between medical and ecclesiastical dietary recommendations, particularly for women. The Church regularly condemned gluttony; for some early Church Fathers, it might be the primary sin. Evagrius Ponticus (345-399 CE, Ibora, Turkey) declared around 365 that not just gluttony, but an overt lack of restraint in glorying in fine food was the principle vice left to us by the sins of Adam (Rowley 2006, 79). It showed a lack of self-restraint, and could lead to other, perhaps even more grave, sins. Gluttony was condemned for both men and women, but since women's bodies were more often associated with sin in and of themselves, rhetorically (at least for the early Church Fathers, going back to the sin of Eve) admonitions to fast and eat sparingly were often directed towards women specifically. Women's bodies were already considered to be polluted, and responsible for tempting men towards sin and pollution. They were also related to unrestrained sexuality. The ancient Greeks are probably responsible for this to some degree, as their medical theorizing found that women, cold by nature, craved the heat of a man through intercourse.