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09-22-2006, 10:52 AM
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| |  Do you know bananas can lift your spirits?
bananas contain tryptophan which, when ingested, increases levels of serotonin in the body (the same effect as Prozac). This can lead to various mood-altering effects (Leathwood and Pollet, 1982) including a reduction in depression (Sainio et al., 1996). As well, Xiao et al. (1998) found that eating just two bananas a day for three days increased levels of serotonin in the blood by 16%. |
09-22-2006, 10:54 AM
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| | | how much do they cost over there? over here you need to take out a mortgage to afford half a dozen |
09-22-2006, 11:17 AM
|  | oh it kills | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: England
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| | I've been eating a banana every day for breakfast for the last week and I've been feeling shitty. 
Who's gonna eat 2 or more a day though? They're kinda high on the calorie list, you might as well have some chocolate. |
09-22-2006, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by PaperBagGirl I've been eating a banana every day for breakfast for the last week and I've been feeling shitty.
Who's gonna eat 2 or more a day though? They're kinda high on the calorie list, you might as well have some chocolate. | while chocolate has some beneficial things in them, id pick bananas; they are rich in potassium. |
09-22-2006, 12:14 PM
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| | | I eat bananas about three times a week. |
09-22-2006, 12:20 PM
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| | | bananas are only 0.6 g of fat
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09-22-2006, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by thumbscrew how much do they cost over there? over here you need to take out a mortgage to afford half a dozen | like about 29 cents a lb or something?
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09-22-2006, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by PaperBagGirl Who's gonna eat 2 or more a day though? They're kinda high on the calorie list, you might as well have some chocolate. | I eat more than 3 bananas a day-especially in winter  |
09-22-2006, 12:35 PM
|  | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | lol bananas aren't expensive
i want some.
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09-22-2006, 12:41 PM
|  | Woman Talking to Death | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brooklyn
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| | | I don't really like bananas, but I can choke them down in a smoothie. I used to make one from a yoga book that was actually called 'Mental Health Shake' or something like that (old book, I don't think people called them smoothies then).
I've just started trying to track what I eat on a web site LawerMcLaw gave me a link to a while ago, and apparently coffee is my main source of potassium. Not surprisingly, I'm not getting nearly enough. So I suppose I should start doing the shakes/smoothies again. I can't remember if it was filling, I hope so, because it is an awful lot of calories.
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09-22-2006, 12:54 PM
|  | razzmatazz | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: York
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Originally Posted by thumbscrew how much do they cost over there? over here you need to take out a mortgage to afford half a dozen | really? where do you live?
in th uk you can get them cheap, my local shop does a bag of about 7 for 99p |
09-22-2006, 03:53 PM
|  | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | | I love bananas this is great news! |
09-22-2006, 03:54 PM
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| | they trigger migraines for me! 
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09-22-2006, 05:11 PM
|  | how much would you pay? | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: edinburgh
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Originally Posted by thumbscrew how much do they cost over there? over here you need to take out a mortgage to afford half a dozen | where are you from? 10 or something would cost not much over £1 here. |
09-22-2006, 06:12 PM
|  | I'm a blue movie | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: DC
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| | bananas bug me.
The possible brown spots scare me.
I like cooking with plantains tho |
09-22-2006, 09:17 PM
| | in flights of fancy. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ottawa
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| | | I REALLY do not think 3 bananas a day would do it. i dont doubt they might inscrease the actual serotonin production, but not by enough to "cure" a clinical depression. they arent THAT high in serotonin. In one of my classes the professor was talking about it last summer and he mentionned that unless you actually are a monkey and can afford to eat x number(a high number) of bananas a day, they dont tend to work that easily |
09-22-2006, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by un*touchable I REALLY do not think 3 bananas a day would do it. i dont doubt they might inscrease the actual serotonin production, but not by enough to "cure" a clinical depression. they arent THAT high in serotonin. In one of my classes the professor was talking about it last summer and he mentionned that unless you actually are a monkey and can afford to eat x number(a high number) of bananas a day, they dont tend to work that easily | I don't think claim was they would cure clinical depression. My impression of the use of the phrase 'same effect as prozac' was that raising serotonin is what prozac does, in case anyone didn't know that, not that eating bannas raise serotonin as much as prozac
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09-22-2006, 09:49 PM
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| | | bananas are really expensive in australia at the moment ... because all the crops were basically wiped out. hah
they're about $13 a kg.
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09-24-2006, 03:26 PM
| | razzmatazz | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: York
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| | | didn't peter andre get really ill from eating too man bananas, back in the day?
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09-24-2006, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Mother Greer bananas are really expensive in australia at the moment ... because all the crops were basically wiped out. hah
they're about $13 a kg. | That's a media lie. There are still fuckloads of bananas in QLD, but the crops in far north QLD were wiped out. There are enough bananas for them to not be $13 a kg. There are growers in Tweed (NSW), so it's not like all our narnies come from Cairns.
I think it was about 30% of Australias crops, but that still didn't make a "shortage". People just didn't want to buy the ones in the shops because the skins were discoloured. THAT'S what probably raised the prices.
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