The hunger virus

Recently I haven't been getting hungry around meal times. It seems that when I forget about a meal I'm not hungry. The only conclusion that I can come up with is that I must not need to eat when my culture tells me I need to (3 times a day, morning, noon, and night). That brings me to an interesting question: Why does everybody seem to get hungry around the same time? You would think, being that everyone's uniquely different, that we would all eat at uniquely different times. I think what I'm getting to is that maybe the thought that you are hungry is as contagious as a cold. That's the only thing that seems logical right now. Through Christian Science we learn that contagions are actually "passed to us" due to our fear of them. In other words, when one person sneezes we are unconsciously (or sometimes consciously) convincing ourselves that that person is sick and that we will now become sick too. Maybe the same thing comes through with hunger. It's this "contagion" (among other things) that contributes to American's present day problem with obesity. We need to decide when we are hungry, and not when the advertisements or other people subconsciously tell us that we are hungry. We need to decide what is good to eat and not let the media convince us that by eating a double-cheeseburger everyday we will be cool (or even manly as new Hardee's ads about their Angus burgers seem to claim) But until we become independent thinkers who make our own conscious good decisions Americans will eat ourselves into obesity.