I think that we certainly should do it to ourselves, and I do it to myself on a daily basis. I don't always eat when I feel hunger pangs in my stomach, I wait a while, with the feeling of hunger actually going away after just a short time.
Here are a couple fo good articles that I read recently. Looks like Americans NEED to go hungry a little more, or at least the 75% of us that are overweight or worse.
http://www.popsci.com.au/science/ave...million-tonnes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle4349471/