MONO MEALS

MONO MEALS



A "mono meal" is when you only eat one type of food at a time, and you don't do any food combining.

EXAMPLES

Eating nothing but watermelon for breakfast.

Eating nothing but grapes for lunch.

Eating nothing but pineapples for dinner.



For people who are used to eating meals that have a lot of different ingredients in them and that require a lot of fancy food prep, the idea of eating nothing but pineapple might seem bland and boring. But to me, the idea of eating all the pineapple that I want is pure heaven!

And while it can be wonderful to eat a meal that your mother spent a lot of time and energy creating for you, it can also be wonderful to eat a meal that "Mother Nature" spent a lot of time and energy creating for you.


I'm not recommending that you try to live on only one type of food, but I am recommending that you eat "mono meals" from time to time for the following reasons...



6 BENEFITS OF EATING MONO MEALS



1. IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW FOR SURE HOW YOUR BODY REACTS TO CERTAIN FOODS

Below is a list of the most common foods that people are allergic to, and what's crazy about this is that sometimes it takes people YEARS just to figure out that they are allergic to one of these foods because anytime they eat it, they will eat it with lots of other things, so it's difficult for them to figure out which "ingredient" is making them sick.

THE TOP 12 FOODS THAT PEOPLE ARE ALLERGIC TO

1. Dairy
2. Yeast
3. Wheat
4. Gluten
5. Soy
6. Eggs
7. Peanuts
8. Tree Nuts
9. Crabs
10. Fish
11. Shrimp
12. Lobster

If you really want to know how your body reacts to a certain food, try eating nothing but that food for a while. And if you would never want to eat the food in question by itself, then it might be a good sign that it isn't going to be all that good for you.




2. EASIER DIGESTION

Even some of the most common things that people are eating today involve food combinations that are incredibly difficult to digest.

Many pastries in America are made with eggs, milk, butter, flour, sugar, salt and yeast. And when all of these ingredients are combined they become a glue-like substance that can clog up your digestion. (The word "gluten" is "Latin" for "glue", and the word "pastries" literally means "paste-like products".)

If you make yourself a simple sandwich with bread, bologna, and cheese, you might think of it as only having a few ingredients. But if you look at the "ingredient lists" on the bread, the bologna, and the cheese, you may find that there are actually a few dozen ingredients in that "simple sandwich".

Believe me when I say that eating a bowl of grapes instead will be a lot easier on your digestion and that over time you will start to enjoy the lighter and smoother digestion that you experience after eating foods that don't come with an "ingredient list".




3. IT'S HOW OTHER SPECIES EAT

If eating "mono meals" sounds like a radical idea to you, keep in mind that virtually all of the other species on this planet eat this way.

For example, bears will eat fish, and bears will also eat honey. But a bear will never catch a fish and dip it into honey before eating it. (When bears find honey, they will simply feast on honey. And during the short time of the year when the salmon run upstream, bears will simply feast on salmon.)

And if you were hiking through a forest and you suddenly stumbled across a fruit tree that was full of a fruit that you love, you would probably be more than happy to stop and simply feast on that fruit for a while.




4. IT WILL BE A LOT HARDER TO OVEREAT

If you only eat one type of food at a time, your body will let you know when it is time to stop eating by altering your tastebuds so that what you are eating will cease to taste good.

For example, avocados are high in fat and if I eat one it will taste kind of like cheese to me, and I will enjoy it. But if I try to eat two avocados, the second one will taste more like butter to me. And even if you are someone who likes putting butter on things, you probably wouldn't want to eat a stick of butter by itself as a "mono meal".

So if I eat an avocado by itself, my body will clearly let me know that one is enough, and I won't be able to eat a second one without it starting to taste unappealing. But if I mash up a bunch of avocados, add spicy ingredients to them, and make "guacamole", and then I eat it with a bag of salty chips, I could probably eat 3 or 4 avocados worth of guacamole before it stops tasting good to me.

Different foods can require different internal environments to be digested, so when we consume a lot of different foods at the same time it can create a lot of internal confusion and chaos, and this results in there being a delay in the time that it takes for us to get the signals from our body that we've had enough and that we should stop eating.




5. IT FORCES YOU TO EAT BETTER-QUALITY FOODS

It's easy to settle for foods that aren't good quality when they are mixed with so many other ingredients that you can barely taste them, or when they have artificial flavors added to them that make them taste a lot better than they actually do.

But once you try to eat a meal of nothing but sour unripe oranges or nothing but out-of-season tomatoes that taste like cardboard, you will never want to have that experience again, and you will want to make sure that they are better quality next time you eat them.

And once you start finding and experiencing better quality foods, you will find yourself in a state of child-like wonder over how amazing something as simple as a bowl of blueberries can be...




6. GREATER APPRECIATION FOR NATURE

I wouldn't describe myself as "religious", but I have noticed that whenever I'm eating a really good "mono meal", I will feel a strong desire to say "Thank you" to someone for what I am enjoying. And I have come to believe that the best way to say, "Thank you" to "Mother Nature" is to simply start respecting and appreciating her more.




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