The Banana Diet

Christmas is coming and everyone will be getting fatter. In the west the problem of obesity I growing wildly out of control. People are getting heavier and heavier, soon it expected that diseases related to diet will over take those caused by smoking and alcohol combined. The nation is sick and knows it. Still because of our hectic lifestyles, we find it difficult to eat a diet that is healthy as there just isn't the time in the evenings to cook a family meal that there used to be.

In modern society it is now expect that both men and women go to work, sharing the domestic chores. In practise this tends to mean that neither parties have time to prepare a traditional meal and instead live off snack and fast food. The problems start to occur once fast food begins to be the staple part of a persons diet and so people are not getting the minerals they need, that are present in 'natural foods'.

I was in Japan earlier this year on holiday where I came across the morning banana diet that from a food science point of view I thought could be interesting to the west. In the Japanese version, it was obviously designed for their more fish based palette than for a westerner. I didn't feel the Japanese version was entirely suitable for me and results were not as I expected. It did though get me thinking about how to use Banana's in a more westernised version of a dietary plan which would work for me and therefore you.

After much experimentation I finally created a UK based Banana Diet which was basically a plan I developed that turned from someone that was clinically obese to someone that is not even classed as overweight, and all within 12 months. Personally, I have lost a third of my body mass in a controlled, healthy manner all thanks to the humble banana and a few interesting lifestyle tweaks.

Amazingly what I found is by eating a banana at specific times of the day in combination with other lifestyle tweaks then I was able to fend off hunger that is associated with most diets, still stay healthy and slowly reduce weight without needing to go to the gym. Then combining this with other elements and lifestyle tweak I saw dramatic results which no other diet has ever given me.

The diet saved me money because I cancelled my gym membership of £75.00 a month, I stopped buying all these special diet foods, stopped taking vitamins and went back to basics. I was saving overall just under £200 a month and I was losing weight too.

As a scientist I have to concede that nature has beat me and I admit defeat. Nothing man made can beat the banana when used correctly. Nature 1 - Human Science 0.

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