How to Do the Morning Banana Diet

Basics of the Newest Japanese Diet Craze

Oct 17, 2008 Jennifer Brister

Check out the newest diet craze to hit Japan!

The newest diet craze to hit the world is bananas. Literally. The Morning Banana diet has become so popular in Japan that it has caused a nationwide banana shortage and a media frenzy.

Created by Hitoshi and Sumiko Watanabe, and promoted on the social networking site mixi, the Morning Banana Diet has taken on a life of its own. Hitoshi, who studied preventative medicine in Tokyo and his wife, who is a pharmacist, introduced the diet to the world and have not looked back since. The Morning Banana diet has caused such a craze among Japan's youth, that supermarkets have been reporting banana shortages throughout the nation.

The Diet

Following the morning banana diet is easy. Almost too easy. However, many in Japan are experiencing fairly rapid weight loss furthering the diet's legend.

Breakfast

For breakfast, you should eat one or more bananas and drink a glass of lukewarm water. You can have as many bananas as you like until you are full. The reason for the water to be lukewarm is not known and has come under much speculation on the Internet. Most diets suggest that you can burn more calories by drinking cold water.

Lunch

Here comes the easy part. Lunch can be just about anything you like. This diet places no restrictions on what you can or cannot eat.

Snack

With the Morning Banana Diet, you can eat one snack around 3:00 pm if you are hungry.

Dinner

Dinner can be anything you like as long as you eat before 8:00 pm. Avoid ice cream and other dairy products, as well as dessert after dinner.

Other

One other rule of the diet is that you must go to bed before midnight each and every night. This makes sense because studies have shown that a lack of sleep leads to obesity.

One of the primary reasons this diet works is that bananas aid in digestion and improve metabolism. The diet has received much attention in Japan and that attention is beginning to make its way over to the United States.

Makino Publishing Ltd has been featuring the diet in its monthly magazine Sokai. The feedback they received has prompted them to run more feature articles on the diet each month. The company has also produced a book called "Asa (morning) Banana Diet' by the Watanabes . It has been a huge hit, selling 230,000 copies so far, with many more projected for this year. Meanwhile, Japan has been considering several solutions to deal with the country's banana shortage.

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Oct 20, 2008 2:23 PM

Guest :

Bananas do help you lose weight. They contain resistant starch, which ferments in your large intestine, creating by-products that actually block conversion of some carbohydrates into fuel, so replacing ordinary carbs with the resistant starch in bananas can boost fat burning. And banana fiber bulks up in your stomach, so you feel full for longer. The healthy way to do the banana diet makes sense and includes exercise. You can read about it here http://www.dolenutrition.com/bananadiet/bananadiet.htm

Oct 20, 2008 8:42 PM

Guest :

Nelson: Go Apple
Bart: Go Orange
Ralph: Go Banana

I'm going to try this Banana crazed diet!!

Nov 9, 2008 7:36 AM

Guest :

Try this diet, nothing to loose but weight; I started to do it and is amazing REALLY WORKS!!!!, what I do is, in the morning in a empty stomach I put 1 banana, make little slices so you have much to munch, 1 full glass of cold water, and last 1 cup of black coffee with one spoon of sugar, might be bitter but is ok. At lunch 1 sliced banana, 1 cucumber, 1 apple and water. If you get hungry later eat one banana or one apple. For dinner chicken breast and salad, or chicken breast and mix veggies (coliflower, brocoli and carrots only), if you get hungry later, banana or apple and water. Never allow your stomach to rumble, when you feel symptoms of hunger just eat as many bananas you want or apples. Good luck I have tried for two weeks and I have lost 7 pounds!!! This is not a lie really works...

Nov 11, 2008 9:21 AM

Guest :

i really want to loss weigth fast so , me and my frined gona try to see if works

Dec 5, 2008 6:50 PM

Guest :

I LOVE NANAS AS MUCH AS MONKEYS

Manuel Castillo

Dec 7, 2008 9:32 PM

Guest :

the banana is also good for the penis but thats only one of the reasons im going to do this diet

Dec 14, 2008 11:27 PM

Guest :

This could be the reason why we, and most Filipinos living in a banana producing villages in the Philippines are not obese. The questions is: how to introduce this diet in the Philippines, as most Filipinos believes that eating banana in the morning, especially boiled saba(musa spp)is a poor man's diet.
Any thoughts? please let me know.
Rico Ricohermoso
Email: rico2hermoso@yahoo.com

Jan 9, 2009 7:49 PM

Guest :

I'm going to try this too, i'll post something on youtube if it works, should be interesting!

Jan 9, 2009 10:36 PM

Guest :

CAN I DRINK MILK WITH THIS DIET? like at lunch?
HOW DO I GET calcium for my BONES!?

Jan 14, 2009 2:00 AM

Guest :

wow lets try it!!!

Jan 15, 2009 8:43 PM

Guest :

Webmd states no dairy products on this diet---for the person who asked about milk.

Jan 23, 2009 9:51 AM

Guest :

Im trying the diet an it seems like its working; I only have 5 days of doing the diet and already have lost 5 pounds.

Jan 24, 2009 5:23 AM

Guest :

there's calcium in bananas too. :-)

Jan 24, 2009 2:39 PM

Guest :

Can you drink Alcohol on this diet

Jan 26, 2009 12:16 PM

Guest :

This diet actually works, i lost 5lbs in 16 days! I didn't even exercise :) i've been blogging it if your interested, (i promise i'm not selling anything!) morning-banana.blogspot.com

Jan 28, 2009 11:41 PM

Guest :

the rule said "Avoid ice cream and other dairy products, as well as dessert after dinner."..So i guess it's only after dinner that you are not allowed to have dairy products. but for the whole day after your banana breakfast, i guess you can..

Feb 12, 2009 5:00 AM

Guest :

Excellent diet as it is a healthy way to go!!!! Leave it to the Japanese!! Great for those of us that love bananas. I am on day two and feel really satisfied and not deprived at all.

Feb 19, 2009 8:24 PM

Guest :

is it alright if i eat bananas at times other than in the morning?

Apr 13, 2009 1:23 PM

Guest :

im a callcenter agent,, and one of the banana diet i saw online ,, says that you need to be resting at midnite wil this work .. if your awake frm 6pm to 6am ,.. and resting at noontime ... ??? for those whove tried this will it not cause constipation ???

May 9, 2009 10:35 PM

Guest :

Affordable Diet. I love banana and definetely will try this diet. Wish me luck coz i need to lose lots of weight. :-)

May 25, 2009 5:47 AM

Guest :

For Constipation:
You need to eat at least to a day for it not to my Grandma's a health professional thing and she said that if you eat at least two a day that it will actually do the opposite.

May 26, 2009 3:01 PM

Guest :

I'm gonna try it out.
If it doesn't work...well then. [._.]



I pray this works.
Seriously.

May 26, 2009 3:02 PM

Guest :

Nanerdiet here I come.

Jun 9, 2009 9:33 AM

Guest :

well , i'm 122.5 KG ( almost 250 LB ) , i'm on my third day of this banan diet , sticking to the rules as much as i can , but i feel that the sugar level in my blood is getting very low , anyone have advice for me ? i need to loose around 30 KG ( around 65 LB ) to be a normal person , please help me with tips
i'll update you next sunday on my progress , wish me luck
My nick name is Demos if you like to be friend :)

Jul 15, 2009 4:07 AM

Guest :

what if i work overnight?it says that you need to sleep before midnight.i work 9pm to 5am...i eat my breakfast around 1pm then lunch at 7pm then dinner at 1am...then i sleep around 6am...will it still work even if my schedules are messed up...ana

Oct 3, 2009 4:53 PM

Guest :

this diet really work i lost seven pounds in the first week. the i lost weight after i did it. i lost a total of 15 pounds in the first 3 weeks.

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