I've read alot this morning and as I read more on the subject of food, I find that my focus continues to fall on developing a personal food culture.  Though we mass market and flood our minds everyday with food related messages, through advertising and mass media, food is a very intimate and private matter that affects us in ways we usually aren't even consciously aware of in our entire being. 

One of the aspects of food and eating that is discussed often, both socially and clinically, is portion size.  It's easy to critisize the eating habits of others, particularly when taking a meal in an all-you-can-eat buffet.  Actually, the subject of portion size is a subject that we should all give consideration.  Unconsciously, any society can incremetally change and the subtlety of that change can occur in such a way that, as a society, we don't even notice it.

I think the following article well demonstrates the point that I'm trying to make:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/comfort-cravings/201003/what-the-last-supper-painting-reveals-about-mindless-eating