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The Banana Diet

Several people have been asking about the banana diet and what it’s all about.

The banana diet is simple and is causing quite a stir in Japan right now. Actually it’s quite hard to find any bananas.

The banana diet or morning banana diet (since you eat bananas in the morning) is as simple as this.
1. In the morning eat a banana or several if you like and a glass of water at room temperature.
2. Eat what you like for lunch and dinner.
3. You may have a small snack around 3 in the afternoon but no desserts or snacks after meals.
4. Don’t eat anything after 8 in the evening.
5. Go to bed by midnight.

Does it work? Yes BUT. It’s not the bananas that help you lose weight but it’s the idea that your not snacking after meals or eating in the evening. Your also getting a decent amount of sleep and lack of sleep has been blamed for weight gain.

It’s basically a calorie controlled diet. Calorie controlled diets work - you make sure that you eat less calories in the day than you would burn off and you’ll lose weight.

So is the banana diet right for you? The banana diet is basically a fad type diet that is based on
controlling calories. If you think that eating a banana or two in the morning will help you keep on a calorie controlled diet and avoid junk food, then the banana diet might be right for you.

But if you are still going to snack on junk and eat late in the evening adding a banana to your diet won’t help you lose weight.

Just remember that bananas as good for you but they don’t cause weight loss - they allow weight loss when in conjuction with a sensible diet.
The banana diet

Do you really know how much exercise or movement you need to burn off that extra soda or a handful of chips? You may need to work out more than you think.

It is a wonderful feeling to realize that if you lie flat on your back all day and watch the world go by, your body burns up some 1,700 calories worth of energy just to keep alive.

Add to this another 800 calories for the energy expended in sitting, walking, playing, and washing dishes or thinking seven or eight hours at an office desk, and you have a grand total of 2,500 calories that you must take each day in the form of food merely to keep your weight stationary.
These figures apply if you weigh about 180 pounds. You’ll burn less if you weight less or are less active than the average person.

Now suppose, after you have eaten your 2,500-calorie quota, you spy a solitary doughnut left over on the dessert plate. Its loneliness touches you; unless it is eaten it is going to be thrown out with the coffee grounds and cantaloupe rinds. Sheer waste! So you eat it. Sheer waist!

That single doughnut is a treacherous, subversive influence. It packs a 200-calorie punch. It boosts your daily calorie intake 200 degrees above par, for a total of 2,700. It is these extra calories you don’t need that keep you from getting slim.

Actually, not every calorie in this case of the superfluous doughnut is laid down in you as fat. Because of the stimulating effect of food itself, and through other regulatory means that nobody understands very well, you are usually able to handle a small portion of those surplus calories in your stride.

In practical terms, however, a daily intake of 200 to 300 calories in excess of needs results in a weight increase of 8 to 10 pounds a year. Only 3/5ths of a pound a year is considered allowable; at least that is the usual annual weight increase of normal persons as they grow older.
One investigator with a diabolically mathematical turn of mind has calculated that one extra pat of butter a day beyond one’s needs will add 165 pounds to one’s weight in twenty years.

When you eat more food than you need, it is possible to take extra exercise to prevent its turning into fat. But we might as well be honest with ourselves. It takes more exercise than we think. For instance:

If you consume, above your —the additional exercise maintenance requirements in needed to burn up these calories—surplus calories would require you to:

One doughnut (200 CALORIES) Conduct an orchestra for 2¼ hours

One ice cream cone (150 CALORIES) Wash dishes 2¾ hours

One marshmallow (20 CALORIES) Write for 1 hour

One small chocolate nut caramel (80 CALORIES) Typewrite 1½ hours

If you consume, above your —the additional exercise maintenance requirements in needed to burn up these calories surplus calories would require you to:

Two dates (56 CALORIES) Read aloud 2 hours
One peanut bar (350 CALORIES) Wash clothes 3 hours One chocolate ice cream soda (400 CALORIES) Saw wood 55 minutes

One fig bar (60 CALORIES) Do an hour’s ironing

One wedge of pumpkin pie (360 CALORIES) Swim 1¾ hours

One vanilla wafer (23 CALORIES) Sew 1 hour

Two Brazil nuts (90 CALORIES) Walk slowly for 45 minutes

One serving poultry stuffing (275 CALORIES) Sweep floors 2½ hours

One tablespoon thick gravy (50 CALORIES) Knit 1½ hours

One bottle (12 oz.) soft drink (120 CALORIES) Play the violin 2½ hours

Pretty somber, isn’t it? Each horrendous pound of fat stored on your person represents about 3,500 calories, and to use these up you would have to climb stairs for nearly four hours. That is why, although exercise is a splendid accessory, it is not practical as a sole method of reducing. Or are you tougher than we think?

If you not sure how many calories you are burning in a day or how many calories a certain activity burns here is a great page with free health tools that you can use to help you reach your goals.
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Does your skin look dry and lifeless or glowing?

What do the Hottie girls have that you haven’t got?

Nothing, maybe. A glint in the eye, buoyant health, energy, sound nervous and glandular system—these are a few of the ingredients of oomph or romance quotient or sex appeal or whatever you want to call the indefinable qualities of fitness, and they are much the same for men and women.

Certain it is that there are no specific foods that act as love philters. You can’t expect a couple of dozen oysters or five or six eggs to make you combustible and come hitherable. But just as certainly you cannot achieve these romantic desiderata on an inadequate diet.

Scientists generally accept reproductive efficiency as a supreme health index in experimental animals. Dietary deficiencies which exhibit no other signs may result in diminished fertility. A high plane of nutrition, therefore, is generally acknowledged to be a prerequisite to glamour.

This does not mean that you should overeat to become a heartbreaker. Quite the contrary: obesity reduces sex interest and interferes with reproduction, to such extent
that overweight, sterile women who suffer disturbances of ovulation sometimes achieve pregnancy when weight is reduced. On the other hand, the mild starvation which girls sometimes undergo to achieve exaggeratedly trim figures often lowers their interest in and capacity for romance.

It is the kinds of food you eat that affect your glamour quotient, as well as the calories you consume. The latter should be sufficient to maintain ideal weight. There is no evidence to link carbohydrates with fertility. Fat-free diets, at least in rats, destroy the mating impulse; if the animals do mate the males cannot become fathers. Practically speaking, however, no human diets are fat-free.
That leaves vitamins and minerals and proteins. Let’s see how the scientists assay these for romance value.

A group of young men with normally roving eyes were placed on a protein-restricted diet. With one exception, there were no observable effects. They went about their business as usual. They succumbed to no deficiency disease. Their health appeared unchanged. But they lost interest in windy corners, cabaret shows, beaches and beauties. Their sex instinct was notably depressed.

Evidence that proteins are essential for energizing the body to the high metabolic output necessary for normal functioning of sex is reasonably conclusive. Certain of the amino acids supplied by proteins are necessary to the manufacture of secretions by the sex-linked thyroid and adrenal glands. This may explain part of the glamour value of proteins, or they may help to put a glint in the eye by stimulating high energy output.

The fact remains that young mice brought up on diets deficient in protein show diminished fertility, arrive at the change of life abnormally early, and become aged and decrepit long before they should. But when they are fed liberal animal protein, the period of vigorous reproductive activity is noticeably extended. The same is true of rats whose reproductive abilities leap upward like the business graph of a defense industry when their rations of fresh meat are increased three to four times.

During the World War, the populations of the Central Powers were so severely restricted in protein foods that they developed edema (retention of water in the tissues) —although undernourished, they appeared overweight from waterlogged tissues. Significantly, the birth rate was severely reduced. When protein foods became available, not only did their figures slim down but in due time there was a significant jump in the birth rate! A colony of rats at Yale University achieved scientific fame for populative potency on diets that contained about twice the amount of protein ordinarily considered sufficient.

Not any old proteins will do the trick. Animals whose only proteins came from wheat failed in reproductive ability. Adding a single amino acid, lysine (found in protein foods), brought them back to par and restored normal interest in the opposite sex.

Adding a single amino acid, lysine (found in protein foods), brought them back to par and restored normal interest in the opposite sex. Experiments with individual amino acids have been so limited, for reasons already explained, that it has been by no means proved which particular ones, if any, are indispensable to sexual activity. But the value of animal proteins in supplying all the amino acids, known and unknown, has been abundantly demonstrated.

In short - eat good, look good!

This is the time of year that many start on their new weight loss goals to get ready for Holiday photos.

Below, you’ll find a few tips to help you succeed when you’re feeling like you can’t get through another day.

Trying to lose weight is a tough challenge whether you have ten pounds to lose or over a hundred. Besides for the obvious changes in diet and exercise, you also have to have the focus, dedication, and motivation to get you to your goal.

When you’re changing your lifestyle, staying mentally focused on your end goals can be the greatest challenge of all. You’ll know you’ve lost your focus when you begin to skip your exercise sessions, or stray from your eating plan. If this is happening to you, it will be necessary to keep your goals in front of you at all times.

If it means having a picture of a slimmer you from 10 years ago in your pocket everyday, then do it! Another way to get your focus back is to write a list of all the things you intend to do when you are at your goal weight, such as swimming, wearing shorts in the summer, or looking good for your class reunion.

Without dedication to your new, healthy lifestyle, you are setting yourself up for failure. If you go on a new diet without telling anyone about it, you’ll be more likely to scrap your eating plan for the day if a coworker brings in treats to work, or a friend wants to go out drinking on the weekend. To keep your dedication to staying healthy, you can’t keep it a secret. You don’t have to announce it to the world, but you should tell the people who have the most influence over your activities.

Motivation is the main element that helps us reach our goals more quickly. How can you stay motivated easily? If you can, buy an outfit in your goal size, or schedule to have some sexy photos taken a few months after you start your new diet plan.

To really keep the motivation going, keep a calendar of events that you want to look good for, and keep that calendar handy at all times. When you’re beginning a new lifestyle, you need constant visual reminders to help make your new lifestyle a habit.

Following these tips to help you lose weight will make the rest of the journey seem a little easier to follow. A healthy lifestyle is not all about the diet and exercise plan; it’s more about how you change to meet your goals.