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1 Which Has MORE Potassium?
Healthy Recipe
2 A Reader Recipe: Chocolate Banana Chia Pudding
snack attack
3 Snack Attack: Frozen Peanut Butter Banana
Diet
4 Is the Morning Banana Diet Bananas?
Food
5 Healthy Dessert: Banana Cranberry Zucchini Muffins
healthy living
6 Health Roadblock: PMS
Quiz
7 Fiber Quiz: 3 Prunes or a Banana?
Weight Loss
8 What's the Deal With the Morning Banana Diet?
Food
9 Healthy Eating Tip: Freeze Bananas
Looking for a sweet but healthy treat? This recipe for chocolate banana pudding that reader Gabriela Une Vie Saine posted in the Healthy Recipe community group may be just what you need. This is an incredibly rich and delicious tasting pudding that's actually totally healthy. The texture is reminiscent of chocolate mousse, but it still manages to pack a ton of healthy fats and protein! See Read more
Holy zucchinis! I wanted to plant two different kinds in my garden, and since the seedlings came in packs of four, my eight plants are bursting with gorgeous green veggies. I've grilled it, stuffed it with quinoa, made Creamy Zucchini Boats, and pan-fried Zucchini Latkes, but this weekend I was in the mood for something sweet. I thought, why not combine two of my favorite bread recipes — Read more
A Japanese weight loss plan known as The Morning Banana Diet (also known as the Asa Banana Diet — asa means morning in Japanese) has been around for a while, which means many people are finding success with it. Before discussing if it works, here are the guidelines for the diet: For breakfast, eat one banana, or a few. For lunch and dinner, eat what you want. There are no strict rules about Read more
Warmer weather makes bunches of bananas turn brown quicker, so before you have to throw them away, freeze them to use for smoothies or banana bread. Just unpeel your nanner, wrap it in plastic wrap, and pop it in the freezer. You can add the frozen banana right to the blender for a fruit smoothie, and for banana bread or muffins, allow them to thaw first. It's a helpful time- and money-saver. Read more
This morning, Team Bella was sittin' around eating banana-filled breakfasts. (No, we're not on that wacky diet.) As delicious as we find them, they're equally delightful in beauty products. Check out a few items, from toothpaste to body scrub, that incorporate this fruit. Grab 'em while you can. Shop This Look Read more
I've been hearing a lot about this new Morning Banana Diet that is taking Japan by storm, so I decided to do a little investigating on whether or not it's worth all the hype. Basically, the rules behind the Morning Banana Diet (MBD) are relatively simple. Eat at least one banana for breakfast and anything you like for lunch and dinner, as long as you don't eat after 8 p.m. An afternoon snack is Read more
During her time at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands, artist Anneke Jakobs salvaged Chiquita Banana boxes and cut out their cheerful banana shapes and iconic logos. She then cleverly arranged them into chandelier form, fastening the cardboard together with cotter pins. Motivated makers can email her for PDF directions to make their own (and interested buyers can also email for Read more
Opossums aren't "cute" by conventional standards, but I dare you to look into these big, black, buggy eyes and deny this opossum his claim to cute. Watch him snack smack on a bit of banana and try to resist the urge to reprimand his bad eating etiquette. When one is this cute, one can get away with making all sorts of om nom nom nom noises. Read more
She's a little older, but still straight up bonkers about bananas. You'd think the lady's fruit fetish would have let up by now, but it's only gotten worse. Not only does she sing the praises of her fave fruit, she adds big, beady eyes to its freckled exterior and creates a chorus of mouthless, banana backup singers. I suppose this is why they say life only gets better after age 60. Looks like a Read more
I have no clue how one discovers an oddball talent of this sort — and I don't want to know — but Mr. Shameless below figured out that he can peel open a banana using only his booty cheeks. The banana butt split is hard to digest, but it's actually the minimalist banana hammock that makes this so very, very wrong . . . Read more
