I was just reading about (2 years too late) a fad weight loss scheme called the Morning Banana Diet (MBD), which started in Japan and swept across the country like a tsunami. It was so popular there that bananas were on back order.Japan is known for its fad diets and like all other fad diets this one will likely lead to some weight loss in the short run but will fail in the long run, which is why they are always replaced by the next crazy idea. Of course they have rules. The weirder and more outrageous, the better. Throw in a little "scientific theory" for motivation and you have yourself a fad diet.
Every diet has rules. If a diet works for you, it’s most likely because the rules have made you eat less food. Diet usually do this by making eating a little harder or less convenient, through restricting when and what you eat.
The Morning Banana Diet regimen was designed to boost your metabolism allowing you to eat as many bananas at room temperature as you want, water for breakfast, anything you'd like for lunch, a 3 p.m. snack and dinner. There are however, no nightly desserts and dinner has to be eaten by 8 p.m. and oh yes, in bed before midnight.
The Morning Banana Diet is the brainchild of Sumiko Watanabe who designed it to increase her husbands metabolism, allowing him to lose 37 pounds. You have got to check out their web site! It's a riot.
Does it work? Japanese opera singer Kumiko Mori says it does. She was the one who made the announcement on a TV show claiming that she'd lost 15 pounds using the Morning Banana Diet, also contributing to the banana shortage. I am not sure those two instances count as proof of its effectiveness, but this diet certainly gets points for craziness.
2 comments:
Interesting. And, one person is contributing to a banana shortage? Interesting.
That's a lot of bananas for one person to eat!
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