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Why the ‘30 Bananas a Day Diet’ Is Monkey Business

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This toned Aussie went from fat to fit by eating dozens of bananas a day—and little else. But is her radical eating plan actually an eating disorder? ‘Absofruitly not,’ she says.

Abby Haglage

Published Jan. 2 2014 5:45AM EST

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Think your post-holiday diet is restrictive? Try eating bananas—all bananas, all the time.

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Next to the cotton ball diet and tapeworm diet in the recent annals of absurd eating plans is 30

Abby Haglage

Abby Haglage

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