I'm not a health professional or dietitian or even know what it really does to the body. I do think 3 big meals a day is waaaay too much food for any person unless you do high level of physical activity for extended periods of time. Hunger is actually in the mind and not the stomach (that part is a scientific fact). I eat when I'm hungry and stop when i'm full, I naturally do the intermittent fasting without thinking, I was doing it before it was even a thing and i have a highly physical job and eating 3 meals a day weighs me down. Eating 1 big meal and a couple of small snacks do me just fine. I also noticed, the more often I eat the more often I feel hungry afterwards . I can say fasting too much for too long probably has negative effects too so one must be careful with it and it can create eating disorders. As mentioned above it's a brain response, eating foods that are rich in flavors (spices, gourmet etc...) will fill up most people faster for longer because the brain gets the satisfaction it needs over quantity of low quality foods filled with salt and sugar. I don't go to the gym , I don't count calories and eat full fat everything( as long as they are not hydrogenated) and i'm at a healthy weight. I totally agree with the point you bring up, in the early days, people went days without food and our bodies were designed that way and they probably haven't changed in that regards and digesting requires a lot of energy.
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Thank you for this amazing comment. I think you're totally right, hunger for most of the times it starts in our head thanks to the fact that we taught our body to expect food at certain times every day.
I usually have one smaller meal in the morning and one bigger one later when I get home and eventually a snack or something like that if I need some more food, all of that in an 8-hour window. :)