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Morning
Banana Diet Plan
Japan
Goes Bananas over Latest Diet Trend
The
Morning Banana Diet is the latest trendy diet that is taking Japan by
storm. The Banana Diet gained popularity in Japan causing
sales
of bananas to increase 80 percent in just one week.
This
craze
has caused a banana shortage at many local and large grocery stores in
Japan. So what makes people bananas over this new trendy
diet? Is this just the latest diet fad or diet miracle?
How
the Morning Banana Diet Works
This
fad diet is very simple. Eat as many bananas as you want in
the
morning with warm water (hence the name Morning Banana Diet).
Then for lunch eat what ever you like! That’s what I said –
whatever you like even pizza or fries. Then if you are hungry
eat
a mid afternoon snack. For dinner, again you can eat whatever
you
want but no dessert. Dinner should be no later than 8:00
pm. You cannot eat anything after dinner and you must go to
bed
by midnight.
That’s it; simple and to the point.
Bananas
- Super Food or Just a Slippery Peel
There
is no question that bananas are a healthy food and contain potassium
other nutrients we need. Bananas can be filling, more filling
than other fruits. It has a high water and fiber content which are also
good things.
Similar
to the Grapefruit fad diet or the Cabbage
Soup diet, the thought behind the Morning Banana Diet is that bananas
are the super food to help you lose weight.
The problem here
isn’t that bananas aren’t good but that a diet that revolves around
them is suspect at best. This diet is not amongst the favorites of many
dieticians and nutritionists.
In fact, this just appears to
be
the latest diet trend that has caught the attention of many people
in Japan and is now spreading to the western countries as well.
The
Beginning of the Morning Banana Diet
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This
fad diet gained popularity after a famous actress lost 26 pounds on
this diet. Her success was posted to a website and the rest
is
history. Many Japanese girls are obsessed with their weight
and
often look for the latest trendy diet to try.
This diet was
introduced by a pharmacists, Sumiko Watanabe, who designed this fad
diet as a means to increase her husbands metabolism. Mr
Watanabe
lost 37 pounds on this diet and introduced it on “mixi”, one of Japan’s
largest social networking services.
This craze has not
only left a shortage of bananas in the store, making the suppliers of
bananas extremely happy, but sales of the Morning Banana Diet books
have reached 730,000 copies.
The Morning Banana Diet – Is it for you?
Before
you jump on the fad diet bandwagon, keep in mind that diets that do not
promote complete healthy eating and teach lifestyle changes tend to
fail in the long run. Even though some people have been
successful at this diet it is still early to tell if the weight lost is
a lasting weight loss.
You may be thinking this one is
easy so why not give it a try. This diet offers little
guidance
to overall nutritional needs and does not even explain why bananas and
warm water. Losing weight is and always has been a simple
formula
of consuming fewer calories than you burn. So if you eat 20
bananas for breakfast, a large pizza for lunch, and a large helping of
mashed potatoes, dinner rolls and a 16 ounce steak for dinner, chances
are this diet won’t work for anyone.
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This example is a bit
extreme, but it is to demonstrate the risks with this fad
diet.
Without the proper nutritional guidelines or a means of tracking your
calories, you are setting yourself up for potential "slip" and failure.
Summary
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Morning Banana Diet definitely fits into the fad diet column.
Any
diet that claims only one super food is the answer is setting you up
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Even though bananas are healthy, they are not
the
one and only super food to make you lose weight.
So go ahead and
have bananas with your weight loss plan. After all, they are
a
healthy food and provide valuable nutrients. Just don’t
assume
that they are the “super food” that will make you shed pounds quickly.
In addition to the Morning
Banana Diet trend, read the review on
the 4 day diet.
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