Cutting out breakfast is easier than cutting out the evening meal.  When I was eating the (SAD) Standard American Diet I would actually get nauseous or sick to my stomach if I didn’t eat breakfast in the morning. But as soon as I swallowed some type of white flour biscuit with sugar loaded jelly or some type of sugar laced processed cereal the feeling was numbed away.  Why was this happening?

Your stomach should not feel sick or weak in the morning.  This feeling comes from the undigested food that is leaving your stomach as you wake up and start to move around in the morning.  In a way it is like a detox symptom, this nauseous feeling comes as your body trys to rid this soured food that was improperly digested as it sat in the stomach over night.  When you eat something during this morning nauseous feeling, the cleansing or detox process stops and the nauseous feeling is numbed down as you pile more food into the stomach.  This also adds more digestive work for your body.

Start eating less at breakfast by eating light meals such as fruit.  Then eventually, if you wish to gain superior Essenic health, cut it out all together and give yourself a large glass of Thankful, Loving Water. This will give the enzymes in your body more time to repair cells and help with better brain function than having to deal with heavy food digestion.

The next big question would be “Is this amount of food intake enough calories for the body?”


How Much to Eat?

The USDA states that the average person should consume 2,000 calories a day.  First of all, we are all different and have different types of work.  If your daily work demands a lot of physical labor then you might need to eat more calories.  If your work requires less physical activity and more brainwork then you need to consume fewer calories.  As you well know, not everyone performs the same amount of physical activity throughout the day so you can disregard that statement given by the USDA.





Buddha gives advise to a king about eating. Click Here.








Muhammed don't eat until you are hungry and when you eat, don't get full, 1/3 of your stomach for food, 1/3 for water and 1/3 should be for air.







“Let the weight of your daily food be not less than a mina, but mark that it go not beyond two.  Then will the angels of God serve you always, and you will never fall into the bondage of Satan and of his diseases.  Trouble not the work of the angels in your body by eating often. For I tell you truly, he who eats more than twice in the day does in him the work of Satan.  And the angels of God leave his body, and soon Satan will take possession of it.

                                                    Jesus, The Essene Gospel of Peace

Jesus said to let the weight of your food be no less than a mina or more than two.

One Mina = 1.25 lbs. or 567 grams.

The Essene historians Josephus and Philo tell us that during the lunch time meal, the Essenes received some type of grain.  Either in the form of sprouts, sundried flat bread, or bread that was baked.  These breads were sometimes flavored with salt or different types of herbs.  To the side of their bread was a plate or bowl of vegetables or legumes. The main bulk of calories came from grains and the rest was supplied with vegetables or fruit.


The Vilcabambas and Hunzas

Let’s take a look at some of the healthier cultures and see where they stood on caloric intake.  There are only a few of these left on earth today but two of the most popular are the Vilcabambas of Ecuador and the Hunzas of the Himalayas.  In January 1973 National Geographic researched and published an article about these two cultures which stated:

“Dr. Guillermo Vela of Quito found a strikingly low caloric intake consumption also among the elderly of the Vilcabamba.  The Average daily diet provided 1,200 calories.  The Daily protein intake was 35 to 38 grams, and of fat only 12 to 19 grams; 200 to 260 grams of carbohydrates completed the diet. Protein and fat were largely of vegetable origin, with only a few grams of protein daily from animal sources.  Needless to say, one sees no obesity among the elderly in either Vilcabamba or Hunza; neither were there signs of undernutrition.”

These people are commonly found living to be 100, 110, 120, and occasionally as much as 140 years of age. When Dr. Davies, a professor at London University visited the Vilcabambas he wanted to interview the pride of the clan Jose David.  “I could hardly believe this man was 142 years old,” Dr. Davies said, “He was grumpy because we were interrupting his work.  He could not wait to get back to hoeing his vegetable garden.” (National Tattler, June 24, 1973)

Another man sent by National Geographic to study the Hunzas was Dr. Jay F. Hoffman.  He wrote, “Here lies the real Fountain of Youth - probably the only one in the world… Hunza land is truly a Utopia if ever there was one.  Just think of this!  Here is a land where people do not have our common diseases, such as heart ailments, cancer, arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes, tuberculosis, hay fever, asthma, liver trouble, gall bladder trouble, constipation or many other ailments that plague the rest of the world. Moreover,there are no hospitals, no insane asylums, no drug stores, no saloons, no tobacco stores, no police, no jails, no crimes, no murders, and no beggars."

Dr. McCarrison wrote, “Any westerner who stepped foot on the tiny land of this friendly nation couldn't stop raving about their good nature, outstanding hospitality, not to mention the physical strength and stamina of their men."
My own experience provides an example of a race unsurpassed in perfection of physique and in freedom from disease in general.  Amongst these people the span of life is extraordinarily long… During the period of my association with these people I never saw a case of asthenic dyspepsia, of gastric or duodenal ulcer, of appendicitis, of mucous colitis, of cancer."

The Hunzas fountain of youth diet consisted of whole meal flatbread with a pat of fresh butter, sprouted legumes, fresh raw carrots and cabbage, fruits, unboiled whole milk, and once a week a tiny portion of meat.  This is very close to the Essene’s diet with the exception of meat.

More Research By Dr. Bass from New York.  With over 100 dietary experiments performed on mice, Dr. Bass found that his mice grew large, looked healthy, and reproduced several offspring while on a diet of sprouted grains (mostly wheat), mung, sunflower and lentil sprouts, and vegetables.

For Superior Essenic health you should eat about 200 to 400 grams of sprouted grains a day.  The rest of your food can be supplied with vegetables, fruit, or fresh milk.  Try this and you will see that this really satisfies your hunger for a long time throughout the day. 

Sprouted grains are the answer to a food that is found in abundance around the world that supply sufficient calories and release sugars slowly into the blood stream to satisfy your hunger and give you sustained energy throughout the day.

If prepared properly, these grains will fill you up faster than damaged grains. It is very easy to overeat on damaged grain products. When you eat things like white rice, pasta, pizza dough, and white flour are very low in nutrients, the body sends out signals to keep eating until it has received enough nutrients.

Damaged grains also contain very little or are even void of fiber.  Fiber adds bulk to our meals which helps give us more the feeling of being satisfied and helps to move food through the intestines. White soft grain products with little fiber gets very pasty and mushy inside the intestines.

If you want to picture what processed poor fiber foods look like inside the body, throw some white bread into a bowl of water and watch what happens the over the next couple of days.  When this pasty mush trys to go through the digestive tract the peristaltic action of the intestines have nothing solid to work against except for a wad of mushy dough.

This mushy substance often sticks to the insides of the intestines, much like cookie dough sticks to the sides of a mixing bowl.  This is also another cause for the protruding belly, even if a person has a high metabolism and very little body fat, there is simply too much mush clogged in the intestines.  Some people say, “Well, I use the bathroom everyday!”  That’s not enough.

You can think of it like this; If you’ve ever made cookies you know some of the main ingredients are processed flour, sugar, and butter. When these are mixed together they become very sticky and even though you get most of the cookie dough out of the bowl there is still some left behind. By continuing to eat these types of processed grains, more and more mush builds up in the intestines every year unless it is properly cleaned with colon cleansing, fasting and good fiber rich foods.

I knew a guy once with a very big protruding belly.  He had lots of money so he thought he would just go and get lipo-suction on his gut.  Much to his surprise, the doctor told him that it wasn’t the fat that was creating his protruding gut, it was loads of undigested food packed in his intestines. Needless to say lipo-suction could not help him.  And as far as I know, I don’t think he ever figured out how to get rid of his problem.


Calorie Restrictions

You will find in hundreds if not thousands of studies where calorie restrictions on mice increased their health and longevity. Many experiments show the same results; mice that are given a calorie-restricted diet live much longer than the ones who are aloud to eat as much as they want, whenever they want.  In fact, a restricted calorie diet is the only way scientists have been able to find that extends the life of the mice.  Using advance gene chip technology to test life-extension experiments scientist are amazed at the rapidity at which the life-extension begins when the mice have restricted diets, even in the elderly mice.


A life of Temperance

One of the most famous men who lived a long extended life of temperance was Luigi Cornaro.  Temperance here means that he only ate enough to satisfy and sustain his life without over eating or indulging in rich dishes, as many of us tend to do so often these days.

(His contemporaries looked with great astonishment on this vigorous, creative
centenarian with his permanently benevolent, smiling face and countenance, so radically unlike themselves, at least those who were still alive when Cornaro celebrated his one-hundredth birthday, for the average life-span in the latter part of the 16th century was only forty to fifty years. 

The few who remained to wonder at Cornaro's well-being were vegetating in agonizing pains, chained to their beds, waiting only for death to release them from their sufferings.  And this generally one-sided (though accurate) image survived all the centuries (he lived from 1464 to 1566).  To many of his contemporaries, he was the respectable and highly esteemed administrator of the Bishopric of Padua and the intimate friend of the highly revered Cardinal Pisani.  Several of his friends regarded him with even greater awe, knowing that two other long-lived celebrities, Pope Paul Farnese and Cardinal Bembo, both had become followers of Cornaro's way of living and eating. 

To the less knowledgeable citizens and neighbours of Cornaro, he was simply the wealthy and eccentric nobleman who lived in a pleasant house in the most beautiful quarter of the city of Venice, the grounds of which were enhanced by several beautiful gardens, intersected by running streams, "in which he always found pleasure of exercising, surrounded by pure air, water, sunshine, and beautiful trees and vegetation."
                                           

When he was around 40 years old he was nearly on his death bed suffering much pain from colic, gout, a constant slow fever and worst of all stomach disorders and perpetual thirst.  After having tried everything to relieve his infirmities the last physician he saw told him there was only one method left that would cure him if he would follow it with patience and perseverance.  This was to live a strictly sober and regular life, a life of temperance.

His physician said that if he did not at once follow this type of life style within a few months he would see no improvement of his condition and in a few more months he would have to resign himself to death. 

Being mortified of dying in his prime age of life he resolved to take the physicians orders.  His rules were; only to use food, solid or liquid, such as is generally prescribed to sick persons; and both Sparingly.  He had heard these directions before but being impatient with the results he had soon returned to eating and drinking as much as he pleased.  But this time was different he resolved to live soberly, according to the dictates of reason, feeling it was his duty as a man to do so. Within a few days, he found this type of living agreed well with him, and by pursuing it, he found that in less than a year he was entirely freed from all his complaints.

As Cornaro had learned the knowledge of the Essene Way, from the writings of St. Jerome, he gave up the use of meats and wine and chose foods, by experience, that had agreed with him.  He ate only as much as he could easily digest, with strict regard to quantity as well as quality. Contriving matters as to never disturb his stomach with eating or drinking, he always rose from the table with a disposition to eat and drink more.

His daily food intake was 12 ounces = 342 grams.

His daily liquid intake was 14 oz. = 399 grams.
(1 ounce=28.5 grams)

No more and no less. 

In his writings Cornaro stated that, “Pure bread is, above all things, man's best food....”

His diet consisted of these simple foods; bread, an egg yolk, Panando( vegetable soup with a little tomato), grapejuice and water.

By continuing this type of simple life style, eating only as much as he needed and never more, he lived well past the few months he was expected to live by doctors, up until the ripe age of 102.  Not bad for a guy expected to die within a couple months!

Cornaro noticed many wonderful effects living this type of temperate life-style.  Even at the age of 100 all his senses functioned perfect, especially his palate.  Once his body and blood became clean, he noticed that he had the most profound desire for the taste of the simplest foods than he ever did for the most delicate dishes. “These things, however, are discovered but by few,” said Cornaro, “for men, for the most part, are sensual and intemperate, and love to satisfy their appetites and to commit every excess; and by way of apology, say that they prefer a short and self-indulgent life, to a long and self denying one, not knowing that those men are truly happy who keep their appetites in subjection.” He further states, “Man, however, brings sickness and disease upon himself, by reason, either of his ignorance or wilful self-indulgence.”

At the age of 91 he had visited some physicians at a University.  They were amazed to see a man of this age so stout, hardy, and lively.  They found that his voice, teeth, memory and judgement were in perfect condition.  The doctors and philosophers said that this was next to a miracle at his age.

As Cornaro new well himself and understood the brutality of sensuality, he could but only feel sorry for men that were half his age perpetually tormented with aches and pains and other various diseases.  So he spent several hours a day writing about a life of temperance in hopes that it would be of great service to those who would read, understand, and apply this type of life style.

His main philosophy of food could be reduced to two things: quality and quantity.  The first consists of avoiding food or drinks that are found to disagree with the stomach.  The second, to avoid taking more than the stomach could easily digest.

To find out more about the interesting life of Luigi Cornaro read The Essene Science of Fasting and The Art of Sobriety by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely.


Conclusion

As we learn from the Essenes diet and teachings, the healthiest cultures in the world, those who have lived a life of temperance, and scientific evidence we can see how the body can live healthier and longer on a simple diet of better quality food and fewer calories.

When the body is not continually packed with food the enzymes have more time to repair and reproduce new cells keeping us younger and healthier.  I tried to do the Raw Diet for several years eating mostly fruits and vegetables. This resulted in many times of “cheating” or “binging” on high caloric food, not to mention the frequent urination.  Once I started adding healthy sprouted grains as a base to my diet I noticed a few interesting things. I could eat smaller portions of food and be completely satisfied for hours and hours without a bloated gut.  In fact, by following the instructions of Jesus and the way historians said the Essenes ate, I was never really hungry as I only ate twice or sometimes once a day.  These grains supplied the calories and slow release of energy throughout the day.  My bowel movements became very easy and regular.  I lost fat yet my muscles stayed hard and toned. I have the feeling of being lighter and faster as now that there is less build-up and weight on my joints.  And mentally my mind is more calm and focus than
before.


BEAUTY LIES IN SIMPLISITY

Following in the footsteps of the superior health of the Essenes, you should incorporate a type of sprouted grain as a main staple in your diet.  With this meal, different types of vegetables combine well.  Eating sweet fruits are better digested when consumed a couple hours after or before these meals. This type of simple diet of sprouted grains, vegetables, nuts, seeds, milk and fruits was used by the Master Healers (Essenes).  They knew what foods and how and when to use them to keep the body functioning at its most optimum level.