Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Bananas: The ultimate hunger buster

Thursday, March 3, 2011

[fast5] Re: Bananas: The ultimate hunger buster

yes! I love the little bananas in Honduras! My favorite!

Leisa (who doesn't seem to able to respond to this list except from the yahoogroup page.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "tamaratornado" <tamaratornado@...> wrote:
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> I can't remember the last time I ate a banana! I don't eat them very often.
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> I do remember bananas I had in Central America.... there were very small ones, that had an intense banana flavor. There were several kinds of bananas, but the small ones were particularly flavorful. I like the red ones also, but they were more mild tasting. Of course fried platanos.
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> I also remember having a savory soup in Honduras that had green banana in it. It tasted like a potato.
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> - T
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@> wrote:
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> > BTW: "resistant starch" = "polysaccharides" :
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> > http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=dailytip&dbid=276
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> > It's basically a kind of continuum, between the simple
> > sugars and the long-chain ones. Your brain and muscles
> > only "eat" the simple ones, but your gut and bacteria
> > in your gut like the longer ones.
> >
> > I think bananas are an amazing food. There are peoples
> > in the world that use them as their MAIN food and do
> > fine on them, plus some fish. What is also interesting
> > about them is they are rather man-made, since their
> > wild version (like the wild versions of wheat and corn)
> > are not at all similar to the version we know.
> >
> > <http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=dailytip&dbid=276>
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> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:33 PM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@>wrote:
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> > > Bananas: The ultimate hunger buster
> > >
> > > Ever grab a snack but then feel hungry again 20 minutes later? Next time,
> > > reach for a banana. It's loaded with Resistant Starch (RS), a healthy carb
> > > that fills you up and helps to boost your metabolism. Slightly underripe
> > > medium-sized bananas have 12.5 grams of RS—more than most other foods. Ripe
> > > bananas give you 4.7 grams of RS, still enough to keep hunger pangs away.
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> > > http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/bananas-the-ultimate-hunger-buster-2456998/
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> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
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> > Heather Twist
> > http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
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