The "It Bag" this season isn't Prada or L.A.M.B. but rather, a banana bag. Never heard of them? Well, that's because you probably have never spent time sweating out delirium tremens in a hospital ward. You see, banana bags are those clear bags that hang on a pole and deliver an intravenous drip of nutrients directly into your bloodstream, totally circumventing the digestive system. And apparently, living on celery and cigarettes and all of those model tricks is simply far too indulgent for the serious Scary Skinny, so they're dropping pounds by skipping food all together.
'Indeed, when we are nutrient starved, one of the brain's automatic strategies is to signal to us that we are hungry. The banana bag may have the effect for some people of making them feel less hungry by putting back missing nutrients, so a dieter may feel more satiated with a small amount of food.'
Before you even consider the veracity of this "dieting method", you should realize that the banana bag cannot deliver all of the body's nutritional requirements. Things like essential fatty acids (you know, the stuff that keeps your heart from exploding) aren't present in the IV cocktail.Holy crap, you guys, this is worse than the girl I knew in high school who had her jaw wired shut as an extreme weight-loss technique. At least that bit of crazy didn't give her a nice set of heroin addict's track marks. You know that things have officially gotten crazy when your diet plan makes the freaking Master Cleanse look reasonable.
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