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A '''Monotrophic diet''' or '''mono diet''' is a type of ] that involves eating only one food item (such as potatoes or apples) or one type of food (such as fruits or meats). A '''Monotrophic diet''' (also known as the '''mono diet''' or '''single-food diet''')<ref name="Guthrie 1983">Guthrie, Helen Andrews. (1986). ''Introductory Nutrition''. Mosby. p. 446. {{ISBN|0-8016-2038-4}}</ref> is a type of ] that involves eating only one food item (such as potatoes or apples) or one type of food (such as fruits or meats).

⚫ ==Examples==

⚫ There are examples throughout history of ] living on monotrophic diets. For example, ] ate only roasted chicken.<ref>Shaw, Karl. (2009). ''Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics''. ]. p. 193. {{ISBN|978-0-752-22703-0}}</ref>

] had strange eating habits. He sometimes would spend weeks eating nothing but ] and at other times only steak sandwiches.<ref>. In ''Facts & Fallacies''. ], 1988. p. 234. {{ISBN|0-89577-273-6}}</ref>

===Carnivore diet===

The carnivore diet is a ] that involves eating only animal products,<ref name="Dennett"/><ref name="Dennett">{{Cite web|url=https://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/0519p12.shtml|title=Popular Diet Trends: Today’s Fad Diets|author=Carrie Dennett|website=Today’s Dietitian|access-date=2020-02-04}}</ref><ref name="hamblin"/><ref name="Independent">{{Cite web|author=Rachel Hosie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/carnivore-diet-plan-results-meat-only-fad-nutrition-health-warning-a8489266.html|title='Carnivore diet': New social media trend criticised by nutritionists as 'very damaging'|website=The Independent|access-date=2020-02-04}}</ref><ref name="McGill">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-nutrition/carnivore-diet-beefy-leap-faith|title=The Carnivore Diet: A Beefy Leap of Faith|website=McGill University|access-date=2020-02-04}}</ref> although the diet is also traditional in certain ethnic groups, such as in ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-04/fyi-what-would-happen-if-i-ate-nothing-meat/|title=FYI: What Would Happen If I Ate Nothing But Meat?|website=Popular Science|language=en|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-inuit-paradox|title=The Inuit Paradox|website=Discover Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref> and among the ] of northern arctic Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/tribes/nenets/index.shtml|title=Tribe: Nenets|publisher=BBC|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref>
People following a carnivore diet consume large amounts of ], such as beef, pork and poultry and some may include ]s and ].<ref name="Dennett"/><ref name="hamblin">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/the-peterson-family-meat-cleanse/567613/|title=The Jordan Peterson All-Meat Diet|author=James Hamblin|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2020-02-02|issn=1072-7825}}</ref> The carnivore fad diet can be traced to the German writer Bernard Moncriff, author of ''The Philosophy of the Stomach: Or, An Exclusively Animal Diet'', in 1856.<ref name="McLaughlin 1979">McLaughlin, Terence. (1979). ''If You Like It, Don't Eat It: Dietary Fads and Fancies''. New York: Universe Books. p. 62. {{ISBN|0-87663-332-7}}</ref>

There is no ] that the carnivore diet is safe or provides any health benefits and the diet has attracted criticism from ]s and ] as being potentially dangerous to health.<ref name="hamblin">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/the-peterson-family-meat-cleanse/567613/|title=The Jordan Peterson All-Meat Diet|author=James Hamblin|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2020-02-02|issn=1072-7825}}</ref><ref name="Independent"/><ref name="sutton">{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-05/carnivore-diet-of-meat-and-water/11757396|title=The beefed-up diet 'changing lives' but health experts not so sure|last=Sutton|first=Malcolm|date=2019-12-05|website=ABC News - Australia|language=en-AU|access-date=2020-02-02}}</ref> Medical experts have warned that the diet can cause ] and followers run the risk of raising their ], which can increase the risk of ].<ref name="Independent"/><ref name="McGill"/> Criticism also derives from concerns about greenhouse gas emissions ] required to produce meats commercially, and the potential for such emissions to worsen ].<ref name="sutton"/>

===Egg diet===

], an Italian painter ate only ]s.<ref>Blow, Douglas. (2009). ''In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy''. ]. p. 97. {{ISBN|978-0804762168}} "The Tuscan painter Piero di Cosimo (1461-1521), for instance, ate only boiled eggs, cooking them by the bucketload and then consuming them one by one as he worked."</ref> ]'s diet was commonly three hard-boiled eggs.<ref>Newman, Jeremiah Whitaker. (1838). ''The Lounger's Common-Place Book, Volume 2''. London. p. 5</ref><ref>Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham. (1880). ''The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two Appendices''. Lippincott. p. 592</ref>

In 2008, it was reported that ] lost four stone from an egg only diet for nine months.<ref>Jamieson, Alastair. (2008). . ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved December 30, 2019.</ref><ref name="The Times">Brooks, Richard; Woods, Richard. (2008). . ''The Times''. Retrieved December 30, 2019.</ref><ref>. RTÉ.ie. Retrieved December 30, 2019.</ref> However, the claim that he ate only eggs for this period of time was disputed.<ref name="The Times"/>

===Milk diet===

In the 1920s the milk diet fad was popularized by physical culturist ].<ref name="Toon 2002">Toon, Elizabeth; Golden, Janet. (2002). ''"Live Clean, Think Clean, and Don't Go to Burlesque Shows’: Charles Atlas as Health Advisor"''. ''Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences'' 57 (1): 39–60.</ref> He advertised the diet as a remedy for diverse ailments such as ], ] and ].<ref name="Toon 2002"/> Macfadden's milk only regime was excessive and recommended 28 cups of milk a day.<ref>Smith, Jen Rose. (2019). . HuffPost. Retrieved December 30, 2019.</ref>

===Potato diet===

In 2010, Chris Voigt executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission ate twenty potatoes a day for two months.<ref>Collier, Roger. (2010). . '']'' 182 (17): E781–E782.</ref><ref>. BBC News. Retrieved December 30, 2019.</ref><ref>Collins, Nick. (2010). . ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved December 30, 2019.</ref> He accepted that the diet is not sustainable in the long term but said his experiment had revealed how "truly healthy" potatoes are.<ref>Allen, Nick. (2010). . ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved December 30, 2019.</ref>

⚫ In 2016, comedian and magician ] began his weight loss regimen with a mono diet, eating only potatoes for two weeks, then adding in other healthy foods to change his eating habits.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Susan Rinkunas |title=Eating Only One Food to Lose Weight Is a Terrible Idea |url=https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/mono-diet-potato-diet-penn-jillette.html |date=19 August 2016 |journal=The Cut |publisher=New York Media LLC}}</ref><ref>Pawlowski, A. (2016). . '']''. Retrieved December 30, 2019.</ref>


==Health concerns== ==Health concerns==
Nutrionists caution that a monotrophic diet may lead to malnourishment, muscle loss, deficiency or dangerous excess of certain nutrients, and difficulty in losing future weight.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Krissy Brady |title=WTH Is The Mono Diet And Can It Help You Drop Pounds? |url=http://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/mono-diet |date=5 January 2017 |journal=Women's Health}}</ref>


Nutritionist Helen Andrews Guthrie has written:
⚫ ==Examples==


{{quote|Food patterns that restrict intake to a single item or a limited number of foods lead to nutritional inadequacies. Even a food that is recognized as an important source of a nutrient should not be used as the sole source of nourishment. Spinach, with its high oxalic acid content, may prove toxic; orange juice, devoid of protein, will not support growth; and milk, low in iron, leads to anemia. All these foods, if used alone, will have severe health consequences. However, they make significant contributions as part of a balanced diet.<ref name="Guthrie 1983"/>}}
⚫ There are examples throughout history of ] living on monotrophic diets. For example, ], an Italian painter ate only ]s.<ref>Blow, Douglas. (2009). In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Stanford University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0804762168 "The Tuscan painter Piero di Cosimo (1461-1521), for instance, ate only boiled eggs, cooking them by the bucketload and then consuming them one by one as he worked."</ref> ] ate only roasted chicken.<ref>Shaw, Karl. (2009). ''Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics''. Pan MacMillan. p. 193. {{ISBN|978-0-752-22703-0}}</ref>


Long-term negative effects of a single-food diet may include ] and ]. Possible side effects are ], ] and ].<ref>. ]. Retrieved January 4, 2020.</ref>
⚫ Comedian and magician ] began his weight loss regimen with a mono diet, eating only potatoes for two weeks, then adding in other healthy foods to change his eating habits.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Susan Rinkunas |title=Eating Only One Food to Lose Weight Is a Terrible Idea |url=https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/mono-diet-potato-diet-penn-jillette.html |date=19 August 2016 |journal=The Cut |publisher=New York Media LLC}}</ref>


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Fad diet involving eating only a single food

A Monotrophic diet (also known as the mono diet or single-food diet) is a type of fad diet that involves eating only one food item (such as potatoes or apples) or one type of food (such as fruits or meats).

Examples

There are examples throughout history of eccentrics living on monotrophic diets. For example, George Sitwell ate only roasted chicken.

Howard Hughes had strange eating habits. He sometimes would spend weeks eating nothing but canned soup and at other times only steak sandwiches.

Carnivore diet

The carnivore diet is a fad diet that involves eating only animal products, although the diet is also traditional in certain ethnic groups, such as in Inuit cuisine and among the Nenets people of northern arctic Russia. People following a carnivore diet consume large amounts of meat, such as beef, pork and poultry and some may include dairy products and eggs. The carnivore fad diet can be traced to the German writer Bernard Moncriff, author of The Philosophy of the Stomach: Or, An Exclusively Animal Diet, in 1856.

There is no clinical evidence that the carnivore diet is safe or provides any health benefits and the diet has attracted criticism from physicians and nutritionists as being potentially dangerous to health. Medical experts have warned that the diet can cause vitamin deficiencies and followers run the risk of raising their LDL cholesterol, which can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Criticism also derives from concerns about greenhouse gas emissions associated with large-scale livestock farming required to produce meats commercially, and the potential for such emissions to worsen climate change.

Egg diet

Piero di Cosimo, an Italian painter ate only boiled eggs. Antonio Magliabechi's diet was commonly three hard-boiled eggs.

In 2008, it was reported that Charles Saatchi lost four stone from an egg only diet for nine months. However, the claim that he ate only eggs for this period of time was disputed.

Milk diet

In the 1920s the milk diet fad was popularized by physical culturist Bernarr Macfadden. He advertised the diet as a remedy for diverse ailments such as eczema, hay fever and impotence. Macfadden's milk only regime was excessive and recommended 28 cups of milk a day.

Potato diet

In 2010, Chris Voigt executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission ate twenty potatoes a day for two months. He accepted that the diet is not sustainable in the long term but said his experiment had revealed how "truly healthy" potatoes are.

In 2016, comedian and magician Penn Jillette began his weight loss regimen with a mono diet, eating only potatoes for two weeks, then adding in other healthy foods to change his eating habits.

Health concerns

Nutritionist Helen Andrews Guthrie has written:

Food patterns that restrict intake to a single item or a limited number of foods lead to nutritional inadequacies. Even a food that is recognized as an important source of a nutrient should not be used as the sole source of nourishment. Spinach, with its high oxalic acid content, may prove toxic; orange juice, devoid of protein, will not support growth; and milk, low in iron, leads to anemia. All these foods, if used alone, will have severe health consequences. However, they make significant contributions as part of a balanced diet.

Long-term negative effects of a single-food diet may include anaemia and osteoporosis. Possible side effects are constipation, diarrhea and fatigue.

See also

References

  1. ^ Guthrie, Helen Andrews. (1986). Introductory Nutrition. Mosby. p. 446. ISBN 0-8016-2038-4
  2. Shaw, Karl. (2009). Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics. Pan MacMillan. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-752-22703-0
  3. The Bizzarre Billionare. In Facts & Fallacies. Reader's Digest Association, 1988. p. 234. ISBN 0-89577-273-6
  4. ^ Carrie Dennett. "Popular Diet Trends: Today's Fad Diets". Today’s Dietitian. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  5. ^ James Hamblin. "The Jordan Peterson All-Meat Diet". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  6. ^ Rachel Hosie. "'Carnivore diet': New social media trend criticised by nutritionists as 'very damaging'". The Independent. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  7. ^ "The Carnivore Diet: A Beefy Leap of Faith". McGill University. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  8. "FYI: What Would Happen If I Ate Nothing But Meat?". Popular Science. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  9. "The Inuit Paradox". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  10. "Tribe: Nenets". BBC. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  11. McLaughlin, Terence. (1979). If You Like It, Don't Eat It: Dietary Fads and Fancies. New York: Universe Books. p. 62. ISBN 0-87663-332-7
  12. ^ Sutton, Malcolm (2019-12-05). "The beefed-up diet 'changing lives' but health experts not so sure". ABC News - Australia. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  13. Blow, Douglas. (2009). In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Stanford University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0804762168 "The Tuscan painter Piero di Cosimo (1461-1521), for instance, ate only boiled eggs, cooking them by the bucketload and then consuming them one by one as he worked."
  14. Newman, Jeremiah Whitaker. (1838). The Lounger's Common-Place Book, Volume 2. London. p. 5
  15. Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham. (1880). The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two Appendices. Lippincott. p. 592
  16. Jamieson, Alastair. (2008). "Charles Saatchi ends nine-eggs-a-day diet, says wife Nigella Lawson". The Telegraph. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  17. ^ Brooks, Richard; Woods, Richard. (2008). "Cracked! The Saatchi diet". The Times. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  18. Nigella reveals husband's 'mad' egg diet . RTÉ.ie. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  19. ^ Toon, Elizabeth; Golden, Janet. (2002). "Live Clean, Think Clean, and Don't Go to Burlesque Shows’: Charles Atlas as Health Advisor". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 57 (1): 39–60.
  20. Smith, Jen Rose. (2019). "America's Weirdest Historical Fad Diets". HuffPost. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  21. Collier, Roger. (2010). This spud’s for you: a two-month, tuber-only diet. Canadian Medical Association Journal 182 (17): E781–E782.
  22. "Is a potato-only diet good for you?". BBC News. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  23. Collins, Nick. (2010). "Man eats nothing but potatoes for two months". The Telegraph. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  24. Allen, Nick. (2010). "American loses over a stone on 'potato diet'". The Telegraph. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  25. Susan Rinkunas (19 August 2016). "Eating Only One Food to Lose Weight Is a Terrible Idea". The Cut. New York Media LLC.
  26. Pawlowski, A. (2016). "Penn Jillette started weight loss with a mono diet — here's why you shouldn't". Today. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  27. "5 of the most extreme diets (and what they could do to your body)". British Heart Foundation. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
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