Bananas and their bad rap.

MED2012COLORADO

Awe come on! I was just taking a bite of one as i glanced over and saw this. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

1puffyheart

I fail to understand why anyone would enter their info incorrectly and expect this site to help them in the long run. I am not sedentary nor do I expect to lose 2 pounds a week (I wish!!) but thanks for your info, I didn't know I was assigned the lowest number allowed per day. Maybe my age and height were factored in, IDK, I seem to exist on that amount and am not starving by any means. :P

umachanxo

I love bananas. They've never hindered my weight loss, I don't believe. That was the chocolate and chips and stuff that I have occasionally. Seriously, I've never heard someone say, "I'm so fat - all of those bananas that I ate really made me pack on the weight."

winny59

I love my bananas, eat one most days. As another poster mentioned, it's not bananas that are keeping the weight on me!

sbussert

They can pry my bananas out of my cold, dead hands.

Actually, I'm pretty sure I will still be clutching them tightly even then. lol

That could get kinda gooey, couldn't it.

2013sk

I love bananas..........but yes they have a bad name, due to the sugar contents in them

Isn't it like 13grams for one? So two, or three would be like 39 grams of sugar, that's without anything else you eat

kikicooks

Because of that stupid advertisement about "5 foods never to eat"

Yes, this is just stupid. Bananas get a bad rap by the people afraid of carbs but they are awesome!

hedwardsb

I usually eat a banana a day.
In still befuddled by a comment I read on here once that you might as well eat a Snickers bar as a banana because of the carbs. Please.

Actually, that is more of a comment about the Snickers than the banana. Of all the candy bars, Snickers is actually not terrible in terms of its glycemic index because of the volume of peanuts in it. A banana, if a little under-ripe, is the same. Ripe bananas are a bit better, though. (I checked this info on livestrong.com)

The comment about Snickers I read was specifically about how bananas are a bad choice. It befuddled me because while bananas are high in carbs & natural sugar, they have fiber & various vitamins while being a low fat choice.
While a Snickers bar might be a good GI choice compared to other candy bars, it seems silly to compare Snickers to fruit--Added sugar vs. natural sugar & the fat content alone.

madebywoo

Don't forget Bananas are great for your mental health, they contain the amino acids tryptophan which help your body to produce Serotine and vitamin B6 which helps to regulate your mood.

They also contain Dopamine which also regulates moods and the ability to concentrate, and emotional ability.

Might be handy when trying to diet.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

I fail to understand why anyone would enter their info incorrectly and expect this site to help them in the long run. I am not sedentary nor do I expect to lose 2 pounds a week (I wish!!) but thanks for your info, I didn't know I was assigned the lowest number allowed per day. Maybe my age and height were factored in, IDK, I seem to exist on that amount and am not starving by any means. :P

I think it's because they really think they might be sedentary and of course they want to lose as quickly as possible

I thought I was sedentary when I joined because I'm a chronically ill housewife. Turns out I'm lightly active. I don't think it's a matter of entering it incorrectly on purpose, they just don't know better at first.

RhonndaJ

I had no idea they had a bad rap. Go figure, I had one with my oatmeal this morning.

WAHMto5

Love them as well and eat them quite a few times through the week;)

concordancia

I had no idea they had a bad rap. Go figure, I had one with my oatmeal this morning.

That actually solves part of the problem. Unlike apples and berries, bananas have very little fiber, so your body doesn't have much work to do to get the sugar into your blood stream (hence the high glycemic index). For anyone with insulin issues, and even for a lot of normal people, that can lead to hunger as the body reacts to the sugar.

The simple solution is to pair the banana with other foods. I have found that they go marvelously with pistachios - lots of extra calories, but my body is happier in the long run!

hastinbe

+1 langsyne

Woomytron

*gasp* I eat bananas all the time. I don't like a lot of carbs (noodles,bread, ect) so they make up for the carbs I'm not eating due to that.

monty619

almost positive bananas are the best fruit you can eat for anyone who does any form of exercise.

sarabeth624

Bananas, especially when eaten in the morning (banana shake, etc.) trigger sugar cravings/binges the rest of the day for me. So it's not the bananas themselves but what they do to me that's a problem. Most fructose does this to me.

zeta30

I have a banana every morning before I work out to give me energy. Like most other fruit bananas has antioxidants.

Here is an interesting article concerning how the nutritional value of a banana will change as is goes from being green to over ripe. Essentially the calories remain the same, but through the thermic effect our bodies will process a ripe banana as having 10 extra calories than an unripe one:

http://www.weightlossladder.com/calories-in-a-banana-ripe-vs-unripe-901/

sofielein

Grapes are the other thing I regurarly see on the ban list (even more sugar and calories than bananas) but I love them. Little cup of grapes with almonds or nuts is just so great to eat. I occasionally even add cheese, makes a perfect dinner.

WBB55

Kirk Cameron's view on bananas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4
(p.s. video link is only for people with a sense of humor about evolution/ID)