(Amusing) Story for the Day: Daniel's Diet

Daniel is most famous forsurviving a night with lions. But it's the first time I've read about Daniel'ssuccessful diet.

Nebuchadnezzar ofBabylon conquered Jerusalem andconscripted "children of Israel of royal blood and of the nobility, youngmen without any defect, handsome, intelligent and wise, quick to learn, andprudent in judgment". One of them was Daniel.

Nebuchadnezzar"allotted them a daily portion of food and wine" from his own table.But Daniel refused to "defile himself with the king's food or wine".The chamberlain was afraid the king would scold him if Daniel and companyrefused to eat and became scrawny.

Daniel asked thatthey be fed vegetables for ten days on a trial basis. After 10 days, he asked to be compared  with the other servantswho ate from the royal table.

The bible says,"After ten days they looked healthier and better fed, than any of theyoung men who ate from the royal table". Vegetarianism FTW :-)