Refined sugar, salt, the various spices, pickles, sauces and preserves all lead to overeating because of stimulation.

They lead to overeating.

The present-day mode of preparing food leads to overeating.

In other words, depriving the foods of their salts is one of the factors that leads to overeating.

Also, eating ten or twelve or more kinds of food, as many people do, always leads to overeating.

Great variety leads to overeating.

In fact, we often mistake thirst for hunger, which leads to overeating, especially in the colder months when we don't experience thirst as much.