Peatnut Butter for Weight Loss

Peanut butter is very tasty, but some people worry that it is not good for health because they think it contains saturated fat and more sodium than potassium. According to Harvard School of Public Health, peanut butter has about 20% saturated fat and 80% unsaturated fat. It is almost same as the ratio of olive oil. Peanut butter also gives you some fiber, vitamins and minerals including 200 mg of potassium. Even salted peanut butter has about twice as much potassium as sodium. Numerous studies have shown that people who regularly eat nuts or peanut butter are less likely to develop heart disease or type 2 diabetes than who rarely eat nuts. As I mentioned, saturated fat is not totally bad. It increases the amounts of bad cholesterol (LDL) but also good cholesterol (HDL) in your blood. So some saturated fat is Okay in moderation. On the other hand, unsaturated fat making up the most fat content in peanut butter helps reduce LDL and lower the risk of heat disease.

There is a publication about other benefit eating nuts including peanut butter. As you may know, gallstone disease is a major source of morbidity in the developed countries. Especially women who are overweight, in forties, have multiple children have a higher risk of developing gallstone disease. One study in 80,718 women who 30-55 years old from 1980 to 2000 revealed that women eating 5 oz of nuts weekly had significantly less cholecystectomy (which is a surgery to remove a gallbladder due to gallstones) than ones eating less than 1 oz monthly. In analysis examining consumption of peanuts and other nuts separately, both were associated with a lower risk of cholecystectomy.