One of these Abstinences, rigorously and universally observed in Egypt, was that from Beans - Antonio Cocchi

I have always named fresh Vegetables, because the dry’d ones have almost all the bad Qualities of Animal Food, particularly as their earthy and oleaginous particles are too strongly coherent together.

His two only Meals in a Day, equivalent to our Collations, were for the most Part of Bread only...

How effectual then this Pythagorean Diet is, towards obtaining the End for which, as has been said, it was principally intended by its Author; that is, for preserving the present Health of the Body... may easily be understood by whoever will but consider the Nature and Faculties of our Bodies, as also of the Aliments which sustain them