What is a mono diet? How to detox with it? Know it from Life Coach Mickey Mehta

By Dr Mickey Mehta

The mono diet is an eating pattern that involves eating just one food item or food group for a few days. According to Ayurveda, mono diet when used for 3 to 5 days, helps with the cleansing and purification of the body. Due to only one type of food being fed to the body, there are less digestive enzymes secreted. Therefore, the body gets the time for renewing and regeneration.

There are innumerable food items available for our consumption and nourishment. We have food families, right from the grain family to the fruits family, roots, spices and vegetables, pulses, and so on.

A mono diet would be deprivation of nutrients. A mono diet would not be taking fullest advantage of the wholeness of our natural resources. We have been blessed by food on this earth with vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates, fats, essential fatty acids, starch, so on and so forth. Although, I am not much in the favour of categorizing food into the above, I consider  food as food and food as wholesome, yet just to explain that how much we have been blessed with and then to go on a mono diet would certainly not be appropriate.

Mono diets as much keep you stable as much are not good for growth and evolution. It may be beneficial towards the plateau response of the body. As less calories are consumed, one may be able to break the plateau and experience weight loss. However, it should be known that this will mainly be due to water loss.

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