I stumbled across this article from a very old book called No Animal Food by Rubert H Wheldon.  Much of what he says is common sense really but I thought I’d share…

It is an excellent rule that prescribes fasting when without hunger.  When there is no appetite do not eat.  It is an example of conventional stupidity that we eat because it is ‘meal time,’ even though there be not the slightest feeling of genuine hunger.

Leaving out of consideration the necessitous poor and those who for their living engage themselves in hard physical toil, it is safe to say that hardly one person in a thousand has ever felt real hunger.  Yet no one was ever the worse for waiting upon appetite.  No one was ever starved by not eating because of having no appetite. « Continue »