Hong Kong’s Ming Pao reported on October 22 that the “banana weight loss method” boom from Japan swept across Korea and Taiwan in August and September, and is now landing on Hong Kong Island. The banana weight loss method is simple and cheap: eat a few bananas with plain water at breakfast until you feel full, and then eat as usual for lunch and dinner. It is said that this method of weight loss has made bananas out of stock in Japan.

　　 There is no craze for no reason. At first, this method was designed by an Osaka pharmacist Junko Watanabe to improve the metabolism of her overweight husband, Jun Watanabe. When Mr. Jun Watan saw that he lost 37 pounds, he took this The method was posted on MIXI, Japan''s largest online community. Since the publication of "Banana Weight Loss Recipes" in March, 730,000 copies have been sold. A singer claimed on a TV show that he used a banana weight loss method to lose 15 pounds in 6 weeks. This weight loss method immediately caused a sensation and ignited the banana weight loss boom.

　　The principle of this weight loss method is said to be that bananas contain “rich enzymes to make digestion faster, so that eating lunch and dinner will not accumulate fat as usual”. "Enzyme" is the translation of enzyme in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The mainland has always translated enzyme as "enzyme" to catalyze various biochemical reactions in the body. This "principle" is full of loopholes, it is almost unbearable: first, there are not many digestive enzymes in the banana, so it cannot make digestion faster; second, fast digestion, absorption will naturally be quick, and absorption will of course make fat easy to accumulate Thirdly, fat accumulation mainly depends on energy intake and consumption, and has nothing to do with bananas.

　　 In fact, the real reason for eating bananas to lose weight is that bananas (most other fruits) contain less energy, which is used to replace energy-rich meals (such as breakfast), which reduces energy intake. This helps to control weight. This principle is actually the same as the popular "eating apples to lose weight", "cabbage soup to lose weight", "grapefruit to lose weight", "fruit meal to lose weight", etc., there is no novelty. The difference is that the fruit meal advocated in the past usually replaces dinner (that is, dinner does not eat only fruits), this "banana weight loss method" is to use fruit instead of breakfast. Regardless of replacing dinner or breakfast, as long as you use fruits (bananas, apples, grapefruits, pineapples, pears, grapes, strawberries, tomatoes, etc. to choose at random, plus boiled water without a little energy is better) instead of 1 or 2 dinners , Will inevitably lead to a significant reduction in energy intake, so it is conducive to weight loss. However, replacing breakfast with fruits, especially bananas, which contain more fiber and less water, is a challenge to the gastrointestinal tract. Eating bananas plus plain water for breakfast on an empty stomach (no more food) will make many people (not everyone) , Some people''s gastrointestinal tract is very "sturdy") gastrointestinal discomfort-gastrointestinal discomfort is more helpful for weight loss, as long as you can bear it-if you do not want gastrointestinal discomfort, it is best to use fruit instead of dinner . Of course, fruits instead of dinner also have "shortcomings": the long night is hungry and unbearable.

　　 There is another prerequisite for banana or fruit weight loss, that is, "eat as usual for lunch and dinner"-note that "eat as usual" means not to eat more! That is, after replacing a meal with a fruit meal, The other two meals cannot be increased, otherwise the total energy intake in one day will not be reduced, of course, it will not help to lose weight. In practice, fruits were used for breakfast or dinner instead of dinner, but they failed to lose weight. The reason for the failure was that the other two meals consumed too much energy, so that the total energy intake throughout the day did not decrease.

　　 In addition, I have to mention the criticism of the "banana weight loss method". Some people criticized that "bananas contain a lot of magnesium...so as to have an inhibitory effect on the cardiovascular", "fasting Eating is not good for the secretion of stomach acid", which means that it is far-fetched, unfounded and unfounded, exaggerated, not good.

　　 Japan is the birthplace of many weight loss methods, which is also "traditional". The weight loss of coriander popular in the past few months is an example. According to a report by Lianhe Zaobao, the current weight loss method in Japan is the "diary weight loss method", which was created by Japanese writer Okada Toshio.