A person who is persistent about eating a fixed meal no later than three hours from his awakening, his running will be faster than sixty other runners who are not as strict about a morning meal.

This statement was made by our holy Rabbis in Bava Metzia tractate (page 107) “Rovo told Rovo bar Mori what is the source for the saying that sixty people who run will not catch up with the person who ate breakfast”.

It is on this page that our sages discussed the significance of eating breakfast which according to them has the power to cure eighty three diseases stemming from the gall bladder.

Today, two thousand years later, the scientific researchers unanimously agree on the importance of a fixed arranged breakfast. It contributes to the reduction of the cholesterol level, improves concentration and analytic capabilities, prevents diseases and takes down the general mortality rate and specifically the mortality which results from heart conditions.

The researcher’s conclusions, which are similar to the words of our sages, claim that breakfast can prevent colds, makes its consumers wise, improve the memory and neutralize negative feelings. These advantages are brought down in the mentioned above page amongst a list of thirteen advantages awaiting the person who eats breakfast daily; “spares from heat or cold, from the winds and from harm, gives wisdom, its eater rightfully merit to learn and teach Torah, his words are accepted, his Torah is not forgotten, his flesh does not give out odor, it gets rid of germs in the kidneys and some add that it removes jealousy and replaces it with love”.