The Japanese banana diet is the latest craze among teenagers, claiming origins in diet-prone Japan. It seems that young girls and women alike are venturing to the supermarket trying to find the popular fruit which is the basis of the diet, without avail. At the height of the diet, bananas were so popular that they sales grew seventy to eighty percent over the fall. The sudden increase in demand for the fruits is leaving supermarkets unprepared. Apparently a banana or to for breakfast has been discovered to promote weight loss, but is there any merit to the newest fad diet?
What is the base of the banana diet? It is essential for the dieter to consume one or more bananas, at room temperature for breakfast. This is combined with the regular intake for water and followed by a normal lunch. At three o’clock, it is fine for the dieter to have a snack, followed with dinner any time until eight in the evening. As long as you avoid desserts, you should be on your way to weight loss with the banana diet. Finish your day with an early night, means that you should be in bed before midnight to gain the optimal experience. Apparently, the diet is supposed to increase your metabolism and help you to lose weight.
Is there any merit in this diet? Although eating breakfast, anything at breakfast is a great way to boost your metabolism it is important to maintain a diet that gives you an adequate combination of fats, protein and carbohydrates. Fad diets lack the basis to promote healthy and permanent weight loss, something that seems to be lost on the hundreds of thousands of consumers that fall into the fad diet trap each year.
Hitoshi Watanabi can be named for causing the fad diet to grow in popularity as quickly as it did. He has been said to lose nearly forty pounds from the diet and advertised this fact on one of the largest social networking websites in Japan. This is when the diet truly caught on, girls looking for a way to lose anywhere from five to twenty pounds began to snatch up the bananas from the local supermarket. He followed the diet from a book, called the morning banana diet, which has sold more than seven hundred thousand copies, and became popularized by a singer who lost fifteen pounds following the weight loss program.
Japan seems to be the first nation to try these fad diets, its population become obsessed for a period of time and then loses interest. It is nothing that we have not seen before. There have been tea crazes including green tea, black tea and oolong tea to promote weight loss. None of these diets have caught on to make it for more than a year, so what is Japan going to be left with in the end? Perhaps we will see the supermarkets stock on bananas for no reason, increase their supply and the population has moved on to the newest weight loss technique.
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