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* Large dogs that scarf down huge meals, then roll over quickly during play, can cause their overloaded stomachs to twist too far, fatally obstructing blood flow to their digestive tracts.
* Due to comparatively abundant, high calorie food that is cheap and readily available in most developed nations, health complications from gluttony is also comparatively common, but it's a slow death that saps lifespan by inches for the most part. Stomach bursting episodes happen but are thankfully rare.
* During the Siege Of Leningrad in [[WW IIWWII]], this was a real problem. Many undernourished people (especially children) died ''after'' being rescued, because they were allowed to eat too soon after evacuation; the technical term is "[[wikipedia:Refeeding syndrome|Refeeding Syndrome]]"
* When concentration camps were liberated medically untrained GIs would give out rations to obviously starving prisoners only to find them dying. Medics found later that they had wolfed down to freely highly rich foods which their digestion was not ready for.