Banannas

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I know that eating banannas is the only way I

will ever be able to get myself off the carbos. I am a

carbo freak..... I crave them constantly. When I eat

banannas it curbs this craving... Plus, banannas make me

feel satisfied. They are my favorite fruit.

<br>Amy<br>www.msnusers.com/amybass

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I am also, not going to give up bananas. When I

was researching this I spent a lot of time on sites

for diabetics. It amazes me that all they care about

is glycemic index. It seems they would eat dog poop

if it had a low GI.<br><br>The reason fruits have

such a high glycemic index is because they have been

hybridized by humans. I pasted a good artical on hybridized

fruit in my message #1089. Living in hawaii I have an

oppertunity to eat wild fruits, and the are not very

sweet.<br><br>I doubt if any of us will ever eat the perfect

diet. Least of all me. But I think we need to know what

the perfect diet is, so if we have problems, we know

which direction to move in. I remember once thinking

that whole wheat bread was perfect, and honestly

believing, when I ate it, that I was really doing something

great for my body. So here is what I now believe is the

perfect diet;<br><br>Article commented by Frederic

Patenaude <br><br><br>An article recently published in

" Nutrition: The International Journal <br>of Basic and

Applied Nutritional Sciences " (1999; 15[6]:488-498),

<br>reports that the vegetarian diet of monkeys in the wild

is far more <br>nutritious than our own diets and

far exceeds the government's <br>recommended daily

allowances (RDA) for humans. <br><br>The surprising new

study shows that monkeys are pickier eaters then

<br>humans and they easily find fruits and leafy foods that

are far more <br>nutritious than most of those in our

supermarkets. Katharine Milton, a <br>University of California

anthropologist, studied the eating habits of <br>four species of

monkeys (Cebus, howler, spider and tamarin) that live in

<br>a research station maintained by the Smithsonian

Institution on Barro <br>Colorado Island in Panama. Milton,

who has been studying primates there <br>for 25

years, tracked the monkeys through the forest of the

Panamanian <br>nature preserve, picking up the food they

dropped or threw from the <br>trees. <br><br>By looking

at the eating habits of these four species of

monkeys (whose <br>average weight was about 15 pounds)

she discovered that the wild monkeys <br>consumed

about 600 milligrams of vitamin C per day, which is 10

times <br>the RDA for a 150-pound human. For calcium,

she found that the monkeys <br>consumed 4,571

milligrams per day which is almost 6 times the human RDA

<br>of 800 milligrams. For potassium, the monkeys ate

6,419 milligrams, <br>while humans consume from 1,600

to 2,000 milligrams per day. Besides <br>consuming

more then 3-10 times the vitamin C, calcium, and

potassium <br>than is recommended for an adult man 10 times

larger then the monkeys, <br>the monkeys also consumed

far more magnesium, iron and phosphorous then

<br>most humans.