Natural PB, or Kraft, Skippy, Jif? Cause that sugar shit will kill you.
Also, peanuts are not a nut, they are a legume.
So the ‘pea’ should be stressed?
Yes, except the pods grow underground instead of above ground, which is why the shells are so strong.
The only nut I eat is my own
The quantity doesn’t seem right to me, a normal american peanut butter jar is about 2 pounds. I feel like if the only thing you eat in a day is peanut butter that by itself would be about a half a jar right? Calories would put it at ~1/3 a jar for daily caloric intake but obviously you’re going to overshoot if you’re eating straight peanut butter. Half a jar in a week just doesn’t sound that crazy to me, thats barely over 2 servings/day.
Or they underestimated how much peanut butter they’re eating. But that was my thought too, NAFLD is typically caused by obesity, so maybe my hypothesis holds water.
Thanks George Washington Carver
Seems like you’re good if you keep your peanut butter consumption under a fucking pound or two a week!
I mean damn that’s a lotta water too if you’re gonna eat that much PB
Oh my god
I did not know that could happen.
Time to find some other foods to replace my #1 go-to 😟
Fuck
Kidney stones fucking suck too. Note that there are more than just the calcium oxalate kidney stones, but for those ones in particular, other things high in oxalates that you might be eating that are high in oxalates: spinach, chocolate, tea, nuts, sweet potatoes.
So if you’re trying to eat healthier, don’t fully adjust to eating (breakfast) an oatmeal bake with nuts, peanut butter, and chocolate; (lunch) wraps using a spinach wrap and/or spinach instead of lettuce for the greens in it; and tea instead sodas… Unless you like the idea of Tylenol sized kidney stones.This happened to me, 11mm kidney stone. It’s truly sucks.
I can happen if you eat a fucking pound or two a week. Do you eat that much in a week as your comfort food?
Yes I do
I’m boring, I like having meals that I don’t have to think about as options to lean on in the morning. Pb and toast is my default for a low effort, no-brain-power-required breakfast.
During my poverty days I ate that as my main source of calories in the day. At most I’d go through a 1lb jar in about 3 days, so like 2lbs a week back then.
These days I’m eating a plant based diet and have far more variety of foods I put in my face. I still go through a 1lb jar in ~1 week, unless I’m eating oatmeal or something else for breakfast for a stretch.
You know that ‘what’s one food you’d bring to a deserted island to eat forever’ question? My answer was always peanut butter. Have to rethink that now.
A pound is like a small tub. If it is a staple of your diet, you will easily eat that over a whole week. 7 days.
I mean a pound, I have sat in front of a jar of nutella and done that. Just wouldn’t do that every week lol
I was going to say, I do this too, but about halfway through the jar it gets nauseating and I can’t look at the stuff for a couple weeks. At least I get natural peanut butter fwiw. Nothing there but peanuts and salt
Some years ago I could nearly eat nutella by the spoonful, but my taste buds must have changed because now it tastes too sweet, so I only eat it occasionally.
I stopped drinking coke for some time now, except in very rare examples. It tastes completely off to me now.
Good for you. Empty calories anyway
I wonder if you’d like cane sugar soda, either kosher coke or smaller soda makers will have stuff that uses real sugar instead of corn syrup.
I’m drinking the real stuff, I’m not from the US
Yes
I genuinely think I’ve been eating about a pound a week for a while. 😐 Not amused.
A standard jar of JIF is only 3/4 Lb. 1-2Lb/week is 2-3 jars a week. There’s no way you didn’t suspect that this was unhealthy…
I buy Albert Heijn’s 100% peanut butter by the kilo (1lb is about 450g) and I go through that in just over two weeks. I won’t lie though, it is self-evidently a lot of fucking peanut butter.
Yes this peanut butter news is devastating. Now I want to know how much is too much.
But it’s so good though…
Apparently this can really happen.
our patient consumed an estimated five times the typical quantity of oxalate daily. She ingested approximately 150 g of almonds daily … and six tablespoons (1/8 cup) of chia seeds … which ultimately caused kidney injury.
150 grams is about 136 almonds, and the chia seeds weigh 84 grams. I’m surprised it took only 234 grams (half a pound) of nuts/seeds a day to get sick but that’s still way more than most people eat and apparently the relationship between dose and kidney disease isn’t linear.
Normally, small amounts of free oxalate are absorbed by the stomach, distal small intestines and colon in humans.
That doesn’t seem like a lot. I’ve certainly gone extended periods eating more than 150g (~5.3 ounces) of nuts per day. I thought nuts were a healthy snack, and often my only breakfast is a bunch of cashews or almonds.
Yeah, knowing the time this takes is important. It clearly doesn’t happen for binge eating
The woman in the article already had
chronic kidney disease stage 3bA1 of unknown aetiology
before her nut diet, so maybe she was more vulnerable than a healthy person?
I noticed significant improvement in my bowel health after stopping eating nuts. They were my go to healthy snack but I don’t really eat tree nuts at all anymore. You’re only supposed to have like 2 or 3 of them at time anyway, and that’s pretty much impossible to satisfy a craving. Peanuts however have nothing to do with tree nuts. They are legumes. I still eat peanut butter and eat about a pound a week.
A few people are in here saying a pound or two a week is an unreasonable amount of peanut butter.
But when you buy peanut butter it comes in a 1-2 pound jar. If it’s your main source of protein, your favorite comfort food, or you have a poverty pantry, then I could totally see how you might think that one jar a week isn’t too bad.
Two pounds of peanut butter is about 6000 calories, or three days of energy for the average person. It shouldn’t be the main staple in your diet, as OPs doctor will attest, but it doesn’t seem strictly unreasonable.
I wonder how gourmet or homemade “nothing but peanut” butter compares to something like Kraft that’s loaded with sugar. Probably still not super great, but hey, maybe it’s better. Or maybe it’s worse. Eat a variety if you can.
Eating peanuts or peanut butter for protein is weird because it’s wayyyyyyyy higher in fat. Don’t eat it for protein, it’s a fat source really.
Y’know, that’s an interesting point.
I blame our nutritional education. I grew up with the Food Pyramid (now debunked), and peanut butter would be considered a “meat alternative” which I think people conflate with being a source of protein.
That’s not how it was taught. Maybe that’s how you learned it. Peanut butter and peanuts were on the bottom row with vegetables, not a meat sub.
https://peanut-institute.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/pyramid-med.jpg
That’s a very different food pyramid from the one that I was taught at least. The 90s/2000s food pyramid made no distinction between different kinds of meats but did make a distinction between grains, fruits, and veggies, with grains as the base of the pyramid.
Your food guide looks different than mine. Notably, yours has a distinction between meat, poultry, and seafood where mine are all lumped in as one category that also includes legumes.
For what it’s worth, I believe this guide has been fully discredited. There was a considerable amount of lobbying to present certain foods prominently.
That’s the one I’m familiar with. Funny what happens when a country and province is hugely invested in dairy farming and then their kids are taught in schools to consume large amounts of dairy to be healthy.
I agree, but at least nuts are high in unsaturated fats, which have some rather solid clinical backing as being healthy. Obviously still energy-dense, and if nuts are used a primary protein source it will likely be difficult to stay within a restricted caloric budget.
E.g. if you want to follow the government recommendation and have 20% of your calories come from protein, peanuts will fall short as only 18% of their calories are sourced from protein (79% from fat). 349 grams of peanuts (about 3/4 of a pound) has 2000 calories and 91 grams of protein - with 175 grams of fat.
I’ve always heard that peanuts were kind of the last option you’d want to pick among nuts, specifically because they’re so high in saturated fats (about 20% of the fat content). They’re not bad per se, but there are much better options.
Still, they’re a great source of added protein and unsaturated fats, but like you said, don’t rely on them as your primary source.
You are definitely better of snacking on peanuts than, say, Doritos. It’s not that they are a bad food, they just don’t have a great macro balance if they are the major component of a diet. From this unvetted comparison they don’t seem to be too bad compared to other nuts.
If someone really wanted to get most of their calories from peanuts, they would probably want to supplement with something like pea protein powder and some high-fiber greens (or even beans). This would allow for keeping carbs relatively low while having a more even balance between fat and protein intake. Not quite keto, but not the typical high-carb western diet.
This is the first post I’ve ever heard that peanuts can be poisonous if overeaten, but I know that most tree nuts are. Almonds and Brazil Nuts are high in selenium and can straight up kill you. As few as 6 Brazil Nuts may be enough. Cashews are also slightly poisonous because the fruit they come from is.
Peanut butter and bacon!
This issue can occur when eating one food excessively for long periods. I distinctly recall this being covered in pre- college health classes.
A common urban legend was the girl who only ate carrots and turned orange.
the girl who only ate carrots and turned orange.
I can confirm this is a real thing. When I was a kid my step-mother went on this fad diet that involved drinking carrot juice every day. It was this whole production where she bought a juicer and I remember multiple large bags of carrots coming in the house. There was always leftover carrot pulp in the trash, etc. Anyways she went wild with it for a time and sure enough her skin started turning slightly orange, mostly along her forearms where the skin was thin.
That’s when the carrot juice stopped.
So yeah she wasn’t an Oompa Loompa but it was definitely a visible change.
Juicing is strange to me. The pulp is really healthy and should have been eaten or used in a soup or something, it’s fibre and has good stuff in it.
Also I may be imagining it but I remember carrot pills being sold at one time to make yourself get a “tan”.
My mom did the same thing. Sometime in the very late 80’s to early 90s.
A friend of mine spoke to this man on a train ride. He lived in the town we went to college in.
He looks like a townie
Colloidal silver?
If it’s your main source of protein.
A 200Lb adult needs a minimum of 140g of protein daily to remain healthy.
A single serving of peanut butter has 190 Calories, and only 7g of protein.
If that 200Lb adult was getting just half of their protein from peanut butter, they would be consuming 1,900 calories in the process. Even if they are active enough to justify that caloric intake, they would still be consuming 160g of fat, which is double the daily recommended amount. It’s the nutritional equivalent of drinking a 2/3 cup portion of cooking oil every day.
Tl;Dr: Do not make peanut butter your main source of protein.
With their high protein concentration, peanuts are used to help fight malnutrition. Plumpy Nut, MANA Nutrition,[67] and Medika Mamba[68] are high-protein, high-energy, and high-nutrient peanut-based pastes developed to be used as a therapeutic food to aid in famine relief. The World Health Organization, UNICEF, Project Peanut Butter, and Doctors Without Borders have used these products to help save malnourished children in developing countries.
A 200Lb adult needs a minimum of 140g of protein daily to remain healthy.
The standard recommendation is about 0.8g per kilogram of body weight. So 200 lbs is 91 kg, which corresponds with 73g.
There’s some more recent advocacy for more protein, especially for active or older people, but that’s talking about more than just the minimum requirements to be healthy, and more towards optimizing for performance.
A pound of peanut butter is around 2600 calories. A pound of Nutella is about 2400 calories. Honestly not as bad as I thought initially.
1 to 2 pounds a week is 370 to 740 calories per day. Eating that much peanut butter for a week or so wouldn’t be too hard, but keeping that rate up consistently would be tough.
That’s nuts (sorry). 400 calories of peanut butter is only 2 servings, 4 tbsp. I’m a big PB fan as well, and can easily eat 2-3 servings a day. I wonder if other nut butters have the same risks and would make good alternatives.
nut butters
That would be a great band name.
There is nothing unhealthy about peanut butter (when I say that I mean ground peanuts, not the brands with an insane number of additives), but almost anything in extreme quantities can be toxic. Even water.
The human body is meant for variety. It’s wild that as much as we’ve learned about the absolutely insane importance of the gut microbiome it still comes down to “eat your vegetables”.
Water intoxication sounds really freakin’ weird at first, but makes sense once you learn a bit more about it.
drinking six liters in three hours has caused the death of a human.
That sounds like a very small amount in three hours.
I had a situation when I was stuck working in a very hot engine room. I went through a gallon in an hour and got Ill afterwards. I still don’t know if it was the heat, water or a combination.
Either way, I did learn that if I get in a situation where I’m so hot that the sweat is running, the answer is to cool off, not just slam water.
It’s the salt/electrolytes. You’re sweating and only replenishing the water part of the sweat.
They deserve credit for warning everyone about a situation people might not have realized was dangerous. Damn.
Something doesn’t add up to me. That is not a ridiculous amount of peanut butter for one week. We would hear about this more than some random reddit post if it was real.
2 lbs of peanut butter is roughly 1.7 to 2 cups of peanut butter. That’s quite a bit for one week.
If that was a problematic amount half of /r/gainit would be dead by now
I had something similar happen to me, but instead of pounds of peanut butter i was substituting lunch for trail mix too often. One day I was passing white flakes that hurt like hell and it would come in waves if I tried eating any sort of nuts after. It’s not peanut allergies, it takes a few days or so to feel these sharp cramps then I will be doubled over the next day. It looks like my bladder had dandruff.
I read it had to do with nut oils, and citrus supposedly counteracts it, so I eat oranges like mad if I ever feel it coming back and so far I haven’t dealt with it again since. I’m really not the type to go over my diet or look into health things like this, but holy hell it hurt and that seems to be the why and also the how to help.
That is what they’re admitting to, I think we can assume it has often been around double that.
As someone who has always had a problem with calcium oxalate stones, I did not know peanut butter is so loaded with oxalates, so this is good information to have.
It’ll sound counter intuitive, but one way to avoid problems with oxalates is to consume calcium rich foods with oxalate high foods. For example, a glass of milk (soy milk counts) with a PB&J.
The reason this works is the calcium binds with the oxalate in your stomach and not your liver/kidneys.
For this to work, you have to consume both at the same time.
Something that’s always stuck with me (re:kidney stones) is that consistently sleeping on the same side seems to increase the likelihood of developing them.
In the 93 patients [of 110] who consistently slept to one side, the side in which renal stones were found was identical to the dependent sleep side in 76%. source
ITT: people underestimating the density of peanut butter
Love that there’s a peanut butter subreddit
There is a WaysToPBandJ sub as well (words might be off, close though).
I love PB n J’s. Huge variety in options.
Personal fav is homemade sourdough, fresh blueberry jam and almond butter, toasted on on my cast iron. Joy.
But this is also not “my food for the day” either XD
Also it having a News tag for some reasons. Big developments going on in the peanut butter fandom.
“I eat relatively healthy”
“Sometimes my only food in the entire day is peanut butter”
Natural peanut butter is very healthy. But of course it shouldnt be the only thing you eat
I have a niece who is literally obese (>30 BMI) and her mother (also obese, even more so) frequently describes her daughter as a “healthy eater” despite the fact that her diet mainly consists of cake and ice cream, in enormous amounts. She considers it “healthy” because it’s all organic from Whole Foods.
Or maybe “healthy eater”, not someone who has a healthy diet
Healthy eater as in eating other healthier people.
“/u/UserUnwillingToShare”
shares a story
They were just unwilling to share their peanut butter.
And if they did, they wouldn’t have had all that peanut butter to eat and destroy their liver. Think ahead, people.
