Ever since raising and producing food has become a commercial development, and not something done by each family, we as a society, have been more and more encouraged to eat more food, and do it more often.
Food sales depends on people purchasing the food products, so even foods that are inherently unhealthy are proclaimed to be healthy in some way.
A good example would be a food that has never had any fat in it, like maybe a pop sickle (which is just frozen flavored sugar water), and it will proclaim in large letters that it is FAT FREE .
It has pretty much been drilled into everyone’s heads that we need to be eating almost all the time, and that it needs to be “balanced”, so we should not just have one food, we need several to balance it out.
I can remember as a young child back in the early 1950’s, being shown pictures of starving children and being told to remember all of the starving Chinese, and to “clean up my plate”.
So, even back then, we were encouraged to eat often, and as much as we could eat, even though most of us kids wondered (as I did ) how that eating my food was going to help some child on the other side of the world who had no food.
It is no surprise then, that most people have grown up believing that eating food is good, and not eating food is bad.