> Hunger is just another sensation, like pain or cold. Within certain reasonable limits a disciplined mind can ignore those stimuli. But discipline is not often

> Hunger is just another sensation, like pain or cold. Within certain reasonable limits a disciplined mind can ignore those stimuli. But discipline is not often taught as a distinct and necessary skill in our soft modern society. Are you saying that the reason there was hardly any obesity among three-year-olds fifty years ago is because those toddlers were "disciplined" and "not soft" and thus able to ignore hunger? Or is it possible that they were more satiated with the amount of calories they were consuming?