The Workermonkey

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The Buddha is right again... 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 10/31/2006 08:26:00 AM

I am amazed at how often the Buddha was right on, I mean the guy was preaching 2500 years ago and he knew about all kinds of things.

During The Blessed One's life he built up the monastic order and weaned the monks down to one meal a day, generally taken in late morning after alms rounds. So the monks got a little serving of whatever all the locals where cooking up(slop). This slop, I would say is healthy, because if the monks got up and cooked a bunch of rice or something, they might be missing out on vital nutrients. Where as, if they went around and got a little rice from here, a little millet from there, and some veggies or even fish up yonder, they would be getting food from a variety of places thus increasing the chance of them getting all the nutrients needed in a good diet, even if the caloric intake was low.

Fast forward to today's Science Times. One key to a long and healthy life, eat little but get all your nutrients. This makes sense, if you body needs 1500-2200 calories a day, give it that, anything extra is just more work for your body. The act of processing an extra 1000 calories a day, every day, over the course of a lifetime really tires you out.

I had known about both these things before today, but I never really made the connection. But this further strengthens my belief that if the Buddha was not fully enlightened, he was at least one smart dude.

2 comments

So whats with the monkeys??

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:57:00 PM  

one of them was given a lower calorie diet and vitamin supplements and is in much better health than the one given much more food

By  josh, at Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:35:00 PM  

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