Japan Goes Bananas Over Diet Craze: Japan is going bananas -- for bananas

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The Morning Banana Diet has become so popular that stores are having a hard time keeping the potassium-rich fruit on their shelves, Time magazine reports. "Large stores don't have any bananas from noon, and even ito Yokado (a major supermarket chain)runs out of them after 3 p.m.," said JTomoyuki Horiuchi, sales representative of Tokyo Seika Boeki Co., Ltd., fruit and vegetables wholesale company. Over the past four months, Dole Japan has boosted its banana imports by more than 25 percent, but stores are still running out, Time said.