MINIMAL FOOD, MAXIMUM HAPPINESS: THE BREAKFAST OF PAVLE, TESLA AND JEROTIĆ

Patriarch Pavle, Vladeta Jerotić, and Nikola Tesla advocated one important principle: minimal food, maximal happiness. They strongly condemned overeating and all three promoted the simplest possible diet.

He was known for his modesty. Overeating was out of the question, but he never left food on his plate. It was said that he would eat every crumb around his plate, considering it a sin to waste food. “Vegetables are essential, even though they do not contain many proteins. They do not provide much energy, but they regulate the intestines and provide the body with vitamins. I enjoy a fine soup made of onions and chopped celery with plenty of butter. This combination is easy to digest, and I have eaten it for years.”
Tesla praised fruit and noted that sugar, in small amounts, is not harmful, especially since fruit naturally contains plenty of it.
Patriarch Pavle
The Patriarch valued nettle above all other plants. Nettle has almost always been used as food in Serbia. It can be used in pies, soups, salads, or as an addition to various dishes. Usually, the leaves are used, although the top of the plant is the best. Top chefs exploit it in many recipes. Patriarch Pavle’s favorite drink and food were tomato juice and nettle.
Nikola Tesla
“The most important element of my life scheme is my diet. You cannot expect a machine to function well if you do not provide it with the proper fuel,” said Tesla, who tried to eat properly, while consuming meat very rarely.
“Two meals a day improved my health and sharpened my appetite and taste. I didn’t know what life was until I eliminated lunch from my diet. Today, at 78 years old, I enjoy my two meals as much as I did at sixteen, and I have no digestion problems,” sources from Tesla Universe report.
For breakfast, he liked to drink milk because it is rich in proteins and to eat eggs, especially the whites, which are also rich in proteins. He also liked rice but not cheese.

Vladeta Jerotic
One of our most respected academics lived to a very old age. He believed that excess in eating and drinking was a great sin, and that blindly satisfying the instincts of appetite turns a person into a slave.
“Instead of becoming hungry and thirsty not only for earthly food, without which, God knows, one cannot exist, one should become hungry and thirsty for God and His justice.”
Vladeta Jerotić paid the greatest attention to the brain, not the stomach. He maintained his memory by reviewing English every morning and by memorizing poems of our poets.