Banana — Hive

Those who want to lose weight eat only banana. Banana is enough to help reduce weight.

The calories in bananas are moderate enough to include in your diet without causing weight gain. A small banana contains 90 calories, and even an extra-large banana only has 135 calories, reports the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The combination of this low calorie range with nutritional value means bananas are a healthy snack, suggests MedlinePlus. One large banana also fills 1 cup of the recommended daily fruit requirement of 1 1/2 to 2 cups.Bananas alone won’t make you gain weight, but if they’re part of a high-calorie diet, they will be one of several foods that contribute to extra pounds. When you consume more calories than you need, the excess calories go into storage somewhere in your body. Some of them will be stored as glycogen, which is then reused for energy when muscle activity increases. But the body has limited space for glycogen storage, so the remaining calories are converted into triglycerides and stored as fat.It takes 3,500 excess calories to add 1 pound of fat, so weight gain takes place over weeks of consistently consuming too many calories. If you ate one large banana every day -- and the extra calories exceeded your daily calorie budget -- it would take about 30 days for those extra calories to add up to a pound of weight.