Odd eating schedules can wreak havoc as well. Waiting too long between meals hurts rather than helps efforts to moderate food intake. Families used to dine together, keeping most eating on a more or less fixed schedule.
Children used to be nourished by mom’s home cooking. Brown bag lunches taken to school have been relegated to the dustbin of history. Daycare, mothers working outside the home, reliance on packaged foods to throw together those rare family meals (not much time to cook after work)... it adds up.
Frozen pastries, cereal, poptarts have replaced breakfast cooked at home and made with real food.
School and daycare lunches of dubious content and quality have replaced brown bag lunches or meals made at home for young children.
Family dinners cooked at home made with real food have been replaced by take-out, fast-food, and time-saving prepared foods containing mystery ingredients.
The radical feminists and their enablers and fellow travelers have been responsible for a very deep level of damage to the culture and society and the future.