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 pineapple 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.

6 BENEFITS OF EATING MONO MEALS

1. EASIER DIGESTION

Even some of the most common foods 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 be hard to digest. (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 dozens of 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 a long list of ingredients.

2. 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 it sometimes 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 is probably a good sign that it isn't going to be all that good for you and that it would be better to eat something that naturally tastes good to you by itself.

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 although we may no longer be living in nature like the animals do, if you went on a hiking trip through a forest and you suddenly stumbled across a fruit tree that was full of a fruit that you love, your natural instict would be to stop and feast on that one type of fruit with glee.

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 stop tasting good.

For example, avocados are high in fat, and if I eat one it will taste kind of like cheese to me, but if I try to eat two avocados, the second one will taste more like butter. 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 unpleasant. But if I make "guacamole" by mashing up a bunch of avocados and adding spicy ingredients to them, and then I eat it with a bag of salty chips, I could probably eat 3 or 4 avocados worth of guacamole before it stoped tasting good to me.

Different foods can require different internal environments to be properly digested, so if we consume a lot of different foods at the same time it can create a lot of internal confusion and even "chaos", and there can be a big delay in the time that it takes for us to get the signals from our body that we've had enough and that it's time to 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 together with so many other ingredients that you can barely taste them, or if 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 go out of your way to make sure that they are better quality the next time you eat them, and the more you do this the better and better foods will start to taste.

I have gotten so good at picking out good fruit over the years that whenever I cut a fruit in half now I can't help but feel like a lucky treasure hunter who keeps cutting rocks in half and finding the most beautiful and priceless crystal formations inside of them.

The colorfulness of fruit is because of certain nutrients that they are rich in. (Watermelon for example is red because it is high in the red antioxidant known as "lycopene" which is good for our hearts, helps protect us against various forms of cancer, provides our skin with a natural sunscreen in the summertime, and a whole lot more... A real gem!)

6. INSPIRATION / IN-SPIRIT

Not only can eating more simply and naturally improve our sense of taste over time, but it can even improve our sense of wonder and purpose!

It has been my experience that fruits and vegetables will continue to become more and more beautiful and beneficial to us the more that we develop a healthy love and appreciation for them, and I'm greatful to have found a diet that not only changed my life for the better but that I now feel a mission to share with others.

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

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