Broken Arrow:
I mentioned above that I thought a video wouldn't convince skeptics. Oh well.
By the way, for my 2nd meal yesterday, I had a plate of raw spinach, 1 cantaloupe, and then 24 bananas. I swear.
Calories:
I only eat 2 meals a day, and I think I do need 4000-5000 calories daily. I run about 100 mpw, and its mostly on the trails, with large changes in elevation. If I eat less than this, I don't seem to have enough energy for my workouts.
a perfect 21:
Eating 6 bananas many times per day would be difficult to fit into my work schedule.
dualism:
I do eat a variety of fruits. Bananas are just the #1 contributor because they are cheap & easy to eat. Creating a fruit bowl daily seems like too much work for me...too much prep time. Besides, there is the issue of "food combining". You can read about it ("Food Combining Made Easy" by Shelton), but basically the idea is that if you only eat one type of food at a time, then your digestion is more efficient. If you like, you can argue for this from an evolutionary perspective also. Our ancestors were probably more likely to eat from a banana tree directly, rather than making a fruit plate.