While doing a cleanse like this for extended periods of time can certainly be harmful, it is not true that a few day, or even few week, period of such cleansing is detrimental. This sort of thing is called a mono-diet, and any yogi would be able to explain the full benefits of eating or drinking the same food/combination of foods (fruits or vegetables, beans or rice, nothing bad for the health) for at least a few days.
Our digestive systems are working constantly processing and digesting and a monodiet gives it a chance to get used to digesting one type of food- it really does give the system a break as Gwyneth said. Over the course of our lives three days or even a month or two in eating the same type of food is hardly anything, especially if the foods you choose are vitamin rich. Some people swear grape monodiets are the best cancer fighting AND curing remedy around.
Google mono-diets. They're the best! And not considered so strange/awful in every culture.
Our digestive systems are working constantly processing and digesting and a monodiet gives it a chance to get used to digesting one type of food- it really does give the system a break as Gwyneth said. Over the course of our lives three days or even a month or two in eating the same type of food is hardly anything, especially if the foods you choose are vitamin rich. Some people swear grape monodiets are the best cancer fighting AND curing remedy around.
Google mono-diets. They're the best! And not considered so strange/awful in every culture.