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The Morning Banana Diet regime is simple: A banana (or as many as you want) and room temperature water for breakfast; eat anything you like for lunch and dinner (by 8 p.m.). A three o'clock snack is okay, but no desserts after meals, and you have to go to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Goes Bananas for a New Diet | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

Keiko Akai is very annoyed. The attractive 21-year-old university student has been planning to do a banana diet for some time now, but she can't get started - and not for lack of trying. "I keep going to OK Store, my local supermarket every single day," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Goes Bananas for a New Diet | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

Bananas are hardly the first fad diet to create shortages in Japan's consumer markets. During the 1970s, there were similar runs on black tea fungus, oolong tea and konnyaku; during the 1980s it was baby formula, banana and boiled egg; then, in the '90s, came apple, nata de coco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Goes Bananas for a New Diet | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

Supermarkets are struggling to meet consumer demand for bananas as a fad diet sweeps the country. The popularity of the scheme, which prescribes a banana and a glass of warm water every morning, has been fed by online social networks, a best-selling book called Morning Banana Diet and celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

I put on the Michigan game, which wasn't easy. Since the TV blocked the shelves that held my cable box, I had to wedge my arm between the LaserVue and the entertainment center to get the remote to work. But once we had the game on, it was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Laser-Powered HDTV the Highest Def Yet? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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