As Japan struggles with growing obesity rates, an increasingly fitness-conscious society tries anything to successfully lose weight. This has resulted in Japan becoming the new international home for the best and craziest in fad diets. The latest, and one of the craziest, is the Morning Banana Diet.
Here’s a snippet from the article about the other fad diets the country has gone through: “During the 1970s, there were similar runs on black tea fungus, oolong tea and konnyaku; during the 1980s it was baby formula, banana and boiled egg; then, in the ’90s, came apple, nata de coco, cocoa and chili pepper; and during this decade black vinegar, carrot juice, soy milk, beer yeast and toasted soybean flour (kinako). Last year’s fermented soybean (natto) diet emptied supermarket shelves.” It makes the Atkins Diet sound reasonable and easy to follow, but Japanese celebrities swear by it.
The Morning Banana Diet is kind of self explanatory. You eat as many bananas as you want for breakfast with a glass of room temperature water. You eat a normal lunch. You eat a normal dinner before 8 PM. You get to bed by midnight.
The funny part is people are missing the reason why this diet works. It has nothing to do with bananas, and it has everything to do with getting to bed early and to not eat too late. That and a slightly decreased amount of calories in the day thanks to banana breakfast, increased hydration thanks to the water, and the laxative effect of bananas means you lose weight. That’s simple math to me.
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