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A Monotrophic diet or mono 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).

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.

Examples

There are examples throughout history of eccentrics living on monotrophic diets. For example, Piero di Cosimo, an Italian painter ate only boiled eggs. George Sitwell ate only roasted chicken.

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.

References

Krissy Brady (5 January 2017). "WTH Is The Mono Diet And Can It Help You Drop Pounds?". Women's Health.
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."
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
Susan Rinkunas (19 August 2016). "Eating Only One Food to Lose Weight Is a Terrible Idea". The Cut. New York Media LLC.

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