The Banana Diet- Are you kidding me?

Honestly how many more single foods are going to become our diet savior. It is not hte grapefruit diet or the pineapple diet. The newest craze is Japan's Banana diet. Now lets remember the Japanese have a fairly healthy diet to begin with and a much lower rate of obesity. Here are the rules: you eat a banana or two for breakfast and then eat your regular lunch and dinner and you will lose weight. No exercise required. Sounds too good to be true? First of all it is meant for people with only a moderate amount of weight to lose- 10-35 lbs.
Here are the rules:
1. Eat 1-2 raw bananas for breakfast. (approx 216 cal)
2. Eat anything you want for lunch and dinner- (remember Japanese diets are relatively healthy and many dieters report cutting back on rice and fried food)
3. No desserts
4. Eat only until satisfied not full.
5. Drink water
6. No exercise required, but allowed
7. Journal your food intake
8. Go to bed early
9. You can have an afternoon snack.
I think you could lose weight doing this diet, it seems like a common sense approach, although it is not specifically telling you to cut back on food intake it should naturally happen if you follow the rules of food journaling and eat until satisfied. No magic in this diet. I would also suggest you would do better if you added protein in with the banana at breakfast, you will be less likely to feel hungry. I think I like the prinicples behind the old Okinawa diet better.