If you want to know a quick and easy way to add massive volume but adequate calories to your meals without eating even a speck of “gourmet desserts”, then here’s how one of the first true pioneers of plant-based healing did it.

And why you can do it, too.

Get rid of all the heavy, calorie-dense raw treats... or eat them sparingly.

Not only will doing this make your meals feel less overwhelming… but you’ll also get in the massive volume of your vegetables at the same time.

Now, you may be thinking, “But all the raw-vegan ‘experts’ eat tons of dehydrated foods. Why shouldn’t I?”

Answer: Not all the experts do eat an endless amount of dehydrated foods. In fact, some of the most successful hardly eat them at all.

Do you know who Dr. Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner is?

He opened a famous Swiss clinic in the late 1890s, where he did not just preach a strict diet, but built a holistic lifestyle around what he called "sunlight nutrition." While other health gurus pushed extreme 100% raw whatever, he realized the human body needs a mix.

Here is exactly how his balanced protocol worked:

He pushed a high raw food content with fresh fruits, salads, and raw vegetables, but made the diet realistic by adding gently cooked cereals to keep it sustainable.

In fact, he invented the original Bircher muesli.

Instead of dry cereal, he combined oat flakes, a grated apple, lemon juice, sweetened condensed milk, and grated nuts.

Unlike strict vegans, he allowed moderate amounts of milk, butter, cheese, and eggs, while strictly outlawing meat, sausages, sugar, processed flours, and any highly cooked or preserved foods.

Well, knowing food was not enough, he also required his patients to fix their wake-sleep rhythms, get fresh air exercise, and build uplifting social contacts.

The strongest argument against his balanced approach comes from strict raw-foodists who think any cooked food or dairy is toxic.

But Bircher-Benner proved them wrong by creating a wholesome, sustainable regimen that people actually stick with today.

And guess what?

If you study his original protocols you’ll notice they contain zero high-fat raw desserts.

Why? I can’t speak for the man, but one reason that seems obvious (to me, at least) is he doesn’t need them.

You see, the volume of his meals is inherently caloric, without needing any dates, nuts, oils or salt.

Now, am I saying diets with 100% raw foods are bad? No.

Many of the best diets ever designed, that heal hundreds and hundreds of people per year, are packed with them.

What I am saying is they’re not always sustainable.

For some people they work like gangbusters. But if you don't digest properly, eating one massive salad after another loaded with heavy nut dressings (healthy as those nuts may be) can actually lead to burnout.

But as with anything, test this yourself and see.

Take one of your dinners with a lot of raw cauliflower, steam it up, and then test what happens.

Depending on your digestion and absorption, you may find your consistency in eating more vegetables improves, your calories become adequate, and your energy goes up.

And you can retain anticancer glucosinolates and heat-sensitive vitamin C by simply stopping the cooking process at the tender-crisp stage. It completely destroys the myth that applying any heat automatically ruins the nutritional profile of the vegetable.

Irina Valeva