banana - the wonder fruit

[vcoheda]

in general i have pretty dry skin. sometimes it even flakes. i have tried dozens of moisturizes and oils. they don't really help that much and sometimes cause me to break out. i have tried lots of supplements as well. have never noticed any difference. i have just come to accept it.

for an unrelated reason, i get blood tests on a regular basis (every 3 months). on my last blood test i was told that my potassium levels were very low and i had to eat 2-3 bananas every day. this was about 2 1/2 weeks ago. and since then i have eaten 2-3 bananas every day. i don't know if my potassium level has gone up but i assume it has.

tonight while i was washing up, i noticed in the mirror that my faced looked unusually smooth and soft. i looked at it more closely and it was. i figured i was just going through a period of non dryness. but then i went to my kitchen to have my nightly banana and it dawned on me that maybe the banana was partly responsible, as it had been a significant change to my diet/regiment the past few weeks. i ran a few searches on the internet and found many websites saying that bananas helped to promote and maintain a healthy complexion.

so, eat a banana or two everyday. it may do wonders

 

[pne]

maybe you should take a daily multivitamin tablet?

 

[wower]

While eating any vegetable or fruit is good, the modern banana, because of modern farming techniques and distance... (picking before ripe when the fruit has maximum nutrients and those things don't grow in Canada or Japan)... have less nutrients than wild ancient bananas. I'm not saying this to have you stop eating them - I eat of tonne of them, they are amoung my favorite fruit - but.. it's a shame what modern farming has wrought. In the past and if you were eating locally, maybe you could have gotten away with eating just one a day.

 

[rxc]

So you want to eat ancient wild bananas?

 

[uzziah]

i do baby, i do; and i want to eat 100's of varieties of corn rather than the one kind we can get here; check out "the future of food" documentary; it's on google video i think

 

[Singapura]

Is there a conspiracy going on to hook us head-fiers on bananas? The same discussion went on on the local headphone forum! http://jaben.net/forums/index.php?topic=316.0

 

[wower]

I wish..

I'm just lementing... You'll have to pardon me it's still raining in Hokkaido for like the 20th hour and I am on edge; use to Alberta where it will thunderstorm and then clear up 40 minutes later to blue skies.

 

[rxc]

lol, you can move down to Mexico for the corn.

No worries wower, Japan is just into its second rainy season and after that comes the snow.

 

[Duggeh]

I love my bananas. One of the cornerstones of the diet I'm on and so far I've lost a stone and a half.

How do you like yours best? Still with some green (ergh), just yellow, spotty, mottled or 1 day from black?

 

[milkweg]

I eat at least one banana a day but can't say I have ever noticed any change in my complexion. I like them just slightly green and can't stand them when they are too ripe and soft. When they are too ripe they are just right for making banana bread though.

 

[Lazarus Short]

Bananas promote sleep.

Laz

 

[FalconP]

Bananas are part of my staple diet, as it is filling and I'm too lazy to cook. One question: is there a way to keep bananas for more than two or three days? Putting them in the fridge is not an option, as they get discolorised quickly and the taste changes.

 

[wower]

My favorite has to be peanut butter and banana sandwishes.

OT: and it rained for 50 hours straight last week. I don't know how people live in Vancouver.

 

[bonkon]

Quote:

Originally Posted by wower /img/forum/go_quote.gif While eating any vegetable or fruit is good, the modern banana, because of modern farming techniques and distance... (picking before ripe when the fruit has maximum nutrients and those things don't grow in Canada or Japan)... have less nutrients than wild ancient bananas. I'm not saying this to have you stop eating them - I eat of tonne of them, they are amoung my favorite fruit - but.. it's a shame what modern farming has wrought. In the past and if you were eating locally, maybe you could have gotten away with eating just one a day.

x2. Most europeans and americans, only know one type of banana. The one they sell in the supermarket, why? Because chiquita, del monte etc. decided it is the easiest to cultivate and mass produce, the most resistant to disease, the easiest to transport, the fastest to grow, the pretiest to look at and so on. In conclusion the best one to make as much money as possible. I don't blame them, it's how the world works and without them we wouldn't have any bananas.

I don't know about other part of the world but in southeast asia I can easily find at least 5 types of bananas in any market. And let me tell you how they taste, unbelieveable, some are so much sweeter and melt in the mouth. Another one is made for cooking, fry them and you will have the tastiest fried banana ever. Each has a very distinct taste and fragrance, granted they don't look as good as the chiquita bananas, yellow, shiny and smooth but who cares. Compared to local bananas the chiquita ones taste neutral, no distinct smell no nothing. Like a westernized frozen asian dish sold in the supermarkets, it tastes neutral and overly salty but nowhere near the original dish. In other words: crap, but I still I eat it because I don't have a choice and I like bananas.

 

[ken36]

I love a banana too.