This series of works is focused around the danger of human vices. Gluttony seems to be a prime target, since many of the items are food (often candy), but also just generic indulgence, with things like soaking in the bathtub.
There are a few possible interpretations. He could be using women to illustrate that women in particular seem to take these things seriously, perhaps to an unnecessary extreme. So this could be viewed as a hyperbole of how many women think about things like eating oreos, gummy bears, etc., and actually be trying to show the absurdity in it all, since it is rather obvious that those sorts of things couldn't possibly kill you in the ways shown in the images.
Alternatively, he could be entirely serious about it all, and by showing the supposed eventual effects of such things (death, either physical or spiritual) at the same time as the cause, he is trying to say that people are moving willingly towards their own slow deaths caused by excess.
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