THE MORNING BANANA DIET
Morning Banana Diet plan is simple: A banana and a glass of room temperature water for breakfast. In fact, you can have as many bananas as you want. Next, eat anything you like for lunch and dinner, being sure to finish before 8:00 p.m. An afternoon snack is okay, but no desserts after meals, and you must to go to bed before midnight.
Sumiko Watanabe, a pharmacist in Osaka, Japan, is the person behind The Morning Banana diet. Watanabe designed the diet to help increase the metabolism of her husband, Hitoshi Watanabe, who was overweight. Over a period of time, Mr. Watanabe lost 37 lbs. and introduced the diet on Mixi, a large Japanese social networking. The Morning Banana Diet books have been flying off the shelves in Japan. Since March various versions of the diet books have sold over 730,000 copies, and some have been translated and published in South Korea and Taiwan. The diet became even more popular after a television program featured a popular Japanese singer who had lost 15 pounds in just six weeks.
All of the hubbub over the diet has had two very noticeable effects in Japan. First, bananas are in short supply as demand has gone through the roof. Dole is trying to get various production facilities from around the world to do more business with Japanese wholesalers to attempt to meet the demand. Secondly, as you would expect in a free market, the price for bananas has went up significantly. Where will this stop? Nobody knows. But for now, the Morning Banana Diet is here to stay – at least until the next fad diet comes along.