Eat Peanut Butter and Lose Weight! -Roger Mason
Prevention magazine is still one of the best selling magazines in America. Lots of poor old foggy minded senior citizens just love it. The editors should change the name to Prescription Drugs rather than Prevention. Now, they are telling us you can lose weight by hogging down peanut butter. I didn't make that up- they said that. Quick, run to the store and buy five gallon cans of peanut butter. Stuff lots of peanut butter in your face all day and you'll be thin as a reed next month. Eat lot of 72% fat peanuts to lose weight.
You don't believe that do you? No one else with a brain does either. The people at Prevention magazine don't believe crap like this either, even though they just published an entire book called The Peanut Butter Diet. The claim (this is a quote) on the book is, "Eat peanut butter every day and lose all the weight you want." That's a quote folks and I didn't make that up. That is a word for word quote by Prevention. One ounce of peanut butter has 72% fat calories and a whopping 14 grams of fat. Peanuts are one of the ten most allergenic of all foods and peanut allergies literally kill people routinely.
The pseudo-research on this is from Harvard School of Public Health. They fed people a high fat diet of 35% fat calories and called it a "moderate fat diet". There's nothing "moderate" about 35% of your nutrition coming from fat. Then they quote more pseudo-science from Penn State University that says eating a lot of vegetable oil lowers your heart disease risk more than a lower fat diet. They claim the National Cholesterol Education Program has increased the recommendation of 30% vegetable oils to 35% vegetable oils because people just weren't eating enough fats! They all belong in mental institutions- or prisons would be better. The ideal would be 10% vegetable oils.
They explain the peanut butter diet works because fats taste yummier, fill us up better (ridiculous on the surface), stick with us longer (yup, right on your waist, thighs and butt), and leave us more satisfied. Personally, I'm not very satisfied being fat, sickly, and dying of fat induced cancer and heart disease.
To their credit they tell you not to eat saturated animal fat or hydrogenated (trans fats) fats, and to eat lots of vegetables, whole grains and fruits. They include dairy products, which are full of lactose and dairy proteins however. All adults of all races are lactose intolerant. Milk and dairy should be the first food to take out of your life.
Peanuts are a major allergen and cause serious problems incuding death. Peanut allergies can be subtle, and you may not know you can't eat them. Many allergies are delayed with no obvious immediate symptoms. The end results are the same, however.
We have talked about Prevention magazine in this column previously, and pointed out it is really devoted to doctors and prescription medications, rather than any kind of natural medicine. Look at any recent issue and you'll see that. Endless color ads for dangerous, toxic prescription drugs. They support the fluoridation of public water supplies. They constantly warn you against taking beneficial over the counter hormones like DHEA and melatonin! They push the glycemic index, which claims all carbohydrates are equal and a sugared donut is the same as a bowl of brown rice, and a candy bar the same as a bowl of oatmeal. They push lycopene for prostate cancer, which we have repeatedly exposed as a farce. For heart health (and I'm quoting again folks) they say, "Lavish chocolate can be good for you. Try heaps of bittersweet chocolate". That's a quote folks, “heaps of bittersweet chocolate”. Could this be any more ridiculous than to tell people good cardiovascular health comes from eating a lot of chocolate? Wish it were true. They are even against growth hormone supplementation as falling GH levels, "may not be a bad thing"!!! Falling hormone levels are a major cause of debilitation as we age. GH is a wonderful hormone, and the only problem with GH is the high expense ($120 a month for Jintropin® or Hygertropin® 30 IU) currently. Want better sex? Drink sparkling water and smell (not eat) some pumpkin pie. Then skip dessert, eat a tuna sandwich and drink a cup of coffee! You think I made that up don't you? That's exactly what they suggested for better sex. That's a quote. Smell pumpkin pie, eat a tuna sandwich, and drink coffee for better sex? They say stupid things like this in every issue. Instead of warning you about eating junk food like ice cream, they tell you how to eat ice cream "safely". The safest way would be to give it to someone else to eat. Prevention is about everything but preventing disease. They really should change the name to Prescription Drugs.
