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Grains maintained the Roman Health
(Contributions to Dr.
Schnitzer's Health Secrets Forum, May 1999 - January 2000)
(Beiträge zu Dr. Schnitzer's
Gesundheits-Forum, Mai 1999 - Januar 2000)
Use of grains in the Roman army
Some time ago you wrote, in an email, about the use of pure grains by the
army under Caesar. It, as I recall, was about the use of 850 grams of pure
whole grain per day. Can you elaborate on this topic and the meaning of
using so much pure raw food especially in a critical situation like an
army?
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Nutrition
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Response to "Use of grains in the Roman army" (David McCollum, 17 January
2000, 04:49:32)
Grains maintained the Roman health
It was Professor Dr. med. Werner Kollath, hygienist and bacteriologist,
who reported in his German book "Getreide und Mensch, eine Lebensgemeinschaft"
(cereals and man, a symbiosis) about the food supply in the ancient Roman
army. Each legionaire received about 750 Grams of grains per day as their
main food supply. Most authors reported it was wheat, others think it was
millet. Each cohort (= 100 legionaires) had one mill with them, to grind
the daily needed quantity. One third was prepared as a (raw, unheated)
mush, two thirds were baked as flat bread, and taken as march ration for
the day.
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Whenever there was a deficiency of grains, and therefore they had to eat
meat, they regarded this as a deficiency or hunger food, knowing it makes
them tired and weak.
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It is also known, that the Etrusks, when they gave 40 war ships to the
Romans to fight against Karthago, they equipped the ships with handmills
to produce the daily (raw) mush from the grains they took with them as
food supply.
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The same was done by Ethiopian soldiers during the last war between about
1980 and 1990; they pounded grains (barley, or millet, or wheat or others),
put the flour into a beer bottle, added water, shook it and drunk it).
Whoever has tried this will know what a surprising energy, for many hours,
is generated by this simple drink!
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The general result of this ancient nutrition with freshly ground cereals:
A complete absence of any chronic "civilization" diseases or degeneration
signs.
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The Roman emperor Caesar reports all details of his war campaigns in his
books - but no diseases are mentionned in his precise reports!
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Another example: The skeletons found in Pompei (covered totally with ash
by the volcano Vesuvius in the year 73) show beautiful teeth, standing
perfectly, without dental caries, and without parodontosis. Compare this
to the seriously degenerated dentitions of the western "civilized" populations!
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If the "health sector" in modern societies would be willing to learn from
this knowledge of former real and successful civilizations, most of the
chronic diseases and degeneration ailments would just disappear from the
world population.
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Naturally, the huge business done by treating and not curing those diseases
would disappear as well. This seems to be a serious obstacle to such a
learning process, and a reason why it doesn't take place.
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Another aspect of grains as main food supply is the hunger problem in the
world. Each year, Millions of children die from hunger. This could be avoided.
The world production of grains, divided by the 6 billions of living humans,
results in about 850 Grams of grains per day and per capita. This is more
than sufficient to satisfy the hunger of every human being in the world
- and to maintain their health and their perfect genetic reproduction in
healthy offspring!
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The bad truth is: The rich ones use most of the yearly world grain harvest,
to feed about 15 billion animals, to kill them afterwards, and to eat their
meat. By that, they receive their punishment suffering from chronic diseases
and cancer - and the poor ones have to suffer and to die from hunger.
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Is this the modern idea about development, society, solidarity, humanity,
and human rights?
You see, still we could learn a lot from the ancient Roman army, using
grains as their source of health and energy. The grains enabled them to
conquer a complete world empire on foot, marching up to about 50 miles
per day, and even then being fit to fight down their enemies.
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The grains would enable us to develop our civilization forward, to a world
with healthy populations, without hunger, and probably with more peace
and happiness.
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Dr. Johann Georg Schnitzer
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cure of diseases by health (survey)
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Friedrichshafen, Germany, im Jahr 2003, Dr. Johann Georg
Schnitzer
Dr.Schnitzer@t-online.de
/ http://www.dr-schnitzer.de
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