As someone from an Eastern country with a strong ascetic tradition, I find this framing unhelpful. Yes, our culture places a strong emphasis on fasting, but is simultaneously also experiencing its own obesity epidemic - and it's not because we're adopting a western framework around hunger. More and more people can now afford high calorie ingredients in our native cuisines that were a luxury a few decades ago. When I was a kid, things like ghee were prohibitively expensive, and I grew up seeing it as a special treat consumed sparingly. I never had to develop self-control around expensive, high satiety food because access was self limiting. If all we could afford to eat daily was rice and lentils, it was hard to be morbidly obese. My generation has faced an obesity epidemic, partly due to easy access to rich foods my ancestors didn't have but my culture and cuisine valorizes. Industrialization of food production has made access much more egalitarian, but we have yet to develop the collective restraint needed.