Banana Site

Ingredients:

cup sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa
teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons water
cup unsweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons butter
teaspoon vanilla
4 bananas
4 scoops ice-cream

Method:

1. Put sugar, cocoa, salt and water in a small pan. Stir well.
2. Add milk. Stir over a medium heat until it comes to the boil.
3. Turn to a low heat and simmer gently for 5 minutes.
4. Cool for 10 minutes or more.
5. Peel, then split the bananas.
6. Put two halves in four sundae dishes.
7. Put a scoop ice-cream on top.
8. Pour the chocolate sauce over each and serve.

Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 oz butter
cup sugar
cup bananas (mashed)
1 egg
1 cup flour
cup chopped nuts
2 tablespoons milk
teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt

Method:

1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. Beat in mashed bananas.
3. Dissolve soda in milk and stir in mixture.
4. Beat in egg.
5. Stir in walnuts.
6. Add flour and salt and stir into other ingredients.
7. Put the mixture into a greased loaf tin.
8. Bake for an hour in a moderate oven.

When people want to lose weight after having a baby, they always think about what foods they should avoid like high calorie, high fat, sugary foods that can quickly add inches to their growing waistlines. However, when people try to lose weight by avoiding their favorite foods, they always end up feeling deprived, hungry and unsatisfied. These emotions lead them to crave for food more and this resultsin food binges. That is why knowing the right foods to eat to lose weight is just as important.

Eating a variety of foods from the different food groups will help you get the good nutrients that you will need to burn the fat and lose weight. Research shows that people get full depending on the amount of food they eat so to create a caloric deficit without eating less you will need to replace your “usual” food with lower calories.

Foods To Eat To Help In fat loss

1. Take in foods that have a lower fat content such as lean meat, fish , chicken or turkey breast without skin, grilled salmon, ground lean beef instead of hot dogs and luncheon meats. You need essential fat because this actually helps in the fat burning process of our body. Drink low fat products like skim or low-fat milk instead of whole milk.

2. Eat foods that are made of whole grains and high on fiber like whole wheat bread, brown rice, fruits and vegetables. Most fruits and vegetable are of low-calorie foods and they can surely fill you up just be careful on how you prepare them. Just keep it simple, steam your vegetables and spice them up a little. You need those low carbohydrate substitutes as a source of energy.

3. Eating high protein foods can do a lot of good for your muscle building and keeping your bones strong. Just be sure to take off the skin from chicken and turkey. Eat a lot of white kidney beans or peas.

4. When it comes to beverages be careful with energy drinks because they are the easiest way to get calories but they won’t fill you up like real food does. Don’t forget to drink at least twelve 8 oz glasses of water every day.

A modest weight loss of 5-10% will reduce your risk of developing diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Fat Loss For Idiots is one program that advocates balanced calorie intake while maintaining adequate nutrient which is of prime importance to achieve good health.

Native to the Caribbean and Central America, bananas are one of America’s favorite fruits. They are rich in potassium – one banana contains 450 mg, one-fifth of the adult daily requirement – and offer a fair share of magnesium (33 mg), too. In addition, bananas help to strengthen the stomach lining and are good for soothing indigestion. Most banana bread recipes are saturated with butter and sugar. This one uses a small amount of canola oil instead – which is much better for your heart – and honey, which of course means lots of flavor. Don’t use regular whole-wheat flour. It is too heavy for this recipe. Look for whole-wheat pastry flour instead.

Ingredients:
3 very ripe bananas
1/2 cup honey
3 tbsp canola oil, plus a little more for oiling the loaf pan
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Instructions:
1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly oil a loaf pan.
2. Mash the bananas and mix with the honey, canola oil and vanilla extract.
3. Stir together the whole wheat pastry flour, baking soda and salt. Add the nuts.
4. Blend the two mixtures and spoon into a lightly oiled loaf pan. Bake for 40 minutes, or until center is set.

12 servings

Nutritional Information:
Per serving:
200 calories
8 g total fat (1 g sat)
0 mg cholesterol
32 g carbohydrate
3 g protein
3 g fiber
203 mg sodium

There is a real demand for bananas in Japan due to the Morning Banana Diet. The lack of bananas at the supermarkets is testimony to the popularity of the new dieting fad.

Japanese girls are obsessed with dieting and the success of the new morning banana diet by a popular Japanese opera singer, Kumiko Mori has meant teenage girls are going bananas to try the diet out for themselves.

A Japanese pharmacist, Sumiko Watanabe, designed the diet to speed up the metabolism of her overweight husband. The diet was successful for him and has received media coverage.

Over 730,000 books about the diet were sold in the first seven months from it being published in March 2008. The book has been translated and published in Taiwan and South Korea.

Fads like this pass through phases and it is predicted by some that the banana boom will be over by Christmas. Japanese banana importers are carefully watching the demand and cautious in ending up with an uncontrollable banana surplus.

Dole, a leading banana importing company, has increased their banana imports by over 25% and still cannot keep up with the increased demand for bananas.

So what is this Morning Banana Diet all about?

The basic rules of the Morning Banana Diet are simply:
Eat as many bananas as you want in the morning with room temperature water.
Eat a normal lunch and dinner, avoiding sweets.
Eat dinner before 8 pm.
Go to bed before midnight.
Small snacks between meals are allowed in moderation.
Drinking alcohol is allowed in moderation.

We have heard feedback that it is working, although others say that it is just plain crazy.

If you have tried this or another banana diet, please let us know how it went!