Some people just live to eat and some people eat to keep their breath running . Just remember the golden principle of medical sciences: keep your breakfast as a king’s, the lunch as a family person (moderate) and the dinner like a poor and starving.
(Dear readers! I bring forward pearls of wisdom for you and never hide them; you should also be generous and shares your wonderful experiences (Editor Hakeem Tariq Mahmood Majzoobi Chughtai)
The human history tells that a nation’s destiny is decided according to their foods. Before now when you would see a doctor and ask him about what food you should consume, you would always get a reply that you can eat everything and these were the herbal physicians, who would prohibit from eating certain foods. However, today the same doctors now keep a chart of certain foods and suggest a suitable diet plan for each of their patients accordingly. For instance, they would say not to eat a lot of red meat to avoid Uric Acid and to eat a high calorie food and to abandon certain foods. Now the doctors are acting like an herbal physician. The reason is that eating at odd times and in abundance as well can never leave a person as healthy rather it makes him sick. There is a famous quote by Napoleon that he knew most of the nations dying because of overeating while he had seen very few numbers of nations dying due to starvation.
Once the great intellectual and a sincere and upright person Hadhrat Hakeem Saeed Shaheed was at his clinic when an educationist came to see him there. He asked him about the long queue of the patients standing there. Hakeem Sahib replied that those as well those came before them and those who would come after them are all sick due to overeating i.e. they have eaten too much that they had become patient due to their lustful eating. Some live to eat while some eat just enough to live. Just remember the golden principle of medical sciences: take your breakfast like a king, your lunch like a family person and the dinner like a poor and a starving person. I would never suggest leaving the dinner but taking a poor man’s dinner helps in keeping the body healthy and youthful. Shall I give you some examples of those, who had made eating as the sole mission of their lives and I would request you not to spoil your life in the name of foods, buffets, taste and barbeque.
The principal of a medical college once came to see me. He remained a professor of medicine previously and those days he was passing a wonderful retired life. I asked him about his lifetime experiences about the root cause of all the diseases as we never had more medical colleges and more pharmacies than now but the diseases as well as the patients are ever increasing. My question was still in the middle while he answered that the root cause of the most of the diseases was ‘Bakery and confectioners’. Everything, which we buy from a bakery, is full of pollution, adulteration disease. If we enact a law today that all the bakeries will be closed today and no one would be allowed to run a confectionary business, ninety percent of our diseases would go away.
Here are some examples of the big eaters:
The daily diet of the legend Gama Pehlawan was six gallons of milk, three kilos of fresh butter, meat of two grown up goats, twenty pounds of almonds and three baskets of fresh fruit and all this was provided by the Maharaja of Patiala. After migration in 1947, he requested the then governor general of Pakistan, Khawaja Nazimuddin for the provision of food in the same quantity who then forwarded it to the governor of Punjab. The then governor of Punjab Sir Francis rejected the application, as the government could not afford it then.
A person living near Okara (Pakistan) would eat 19 big bowls of curry. If he had to travel then first he asked the people to arrange for that much diet and then he went there.
Another person who was a great expert in digging wells once ate the food of twenty people himself. He would work at his own and would carry tons of soil emerging from the dig himself without anyone else’s help.
The Nawab of Bahawalpur had a servant of short height and he would call him ‘Laddu’. Once Laddu ate 10 kilos of sweet rice while the Nawab was watching.
A person living near Sargodha eats 100 loaves daily. If he does not find enough food then he eats at least twenty loaves every day. Once he went to a wedding and was asked to take 15 kg of rice to the wedding home. He ate all of them alone and then went to the farm to do some work. When he returned in the evening and was interrogated about the rice, he confessed to having eaten them himself.
During my visit to Rahimyar Khan, I learnt about a person who won a bet of eating forty-two eggs, twelve kilos of meat and fifty loaves in a single sitting and he won ten thousand rupees of bet as well. It is said to be his daily routine to drink 3-4 litres of milk.
Another friend of mine shared his experience that once he hunted down a deer while he was accompanied by one of his friend who himself ate about 15 kilos of meat alone.
During Ramadan, a person went to a buffet restaurant to break his fast and the owner was just pissed off after having served him a food enough for 10-12 persons easily. He was eating with such a zeal that when he felt tired of eating with his hands, he just picked the plate to his mouth to eat directly from the dish with his mouth.
A person from Peshawar would eat oranges such that he just tore it into two halves and would eat it without peeling. In this way, he would eat countless oranges. Once while he was eating oranges, there came a big ant on the fruit. He did not bother to remove it, rather he placed it inside the fruit, and just ate it. The people would call him ‘Jhalla’ (ignorant). Once when his sister died, he said that he would never let anyone eat chicken drumsticks and would accumulate a huge number of them in their dish before eating them in one go. If someone would stop him, he said how comes that his own sister had died and the chicken drumsticks are eaten by someone else.
Another guy eat all sorts of food without any limit and if they later on does not like , just vomit it out intentionally and then start eating again.
Another person would eat kheer (rice and milk desert) as much as 10-15 litres alone along with more than twenty loaves.
Another person from Peshawar was invited to a feast where he ate to his full. Then later he was told about another party so he vomited intentionally and then went to the second feast.
A huge number of laborers and loaders in the Ghalla mandi (The grain market) eat a lot of food.
Another of my friend told about a person who first ate for long hours from a feast and then stood up while taking a sigh of grief. When asked about his strange behaviour, he replied that he was sad that he could not eat more of it and still there was a plenty of food left.
