Peanut Butter Diet Review

What You Should Know

The Peanut Butter Diet was conceived by Prevention Magazine and is a diet that, not surprisingly, includes peanut butter as a key part of your daily meal planning. It was subsequently made into a book that carried the same name, The Peanut Butter Diet. Those who conceived this diet say that eating peanut butter everyday is good for you and by following this diet you can lose up to 25 pounds in a year.

Ingredients

The Peanut Butter Diet consists of including peanut butter in your daily diet.

Product Details

The Peanut Butter Diet consists of incorporating a snack which includes peanut butter into your daily meal plan. An example of a meal plan for one day when on the Peanut Butter Diet is to start off with a breakfast of one banana, some almonds, one serving of whole grain cereal and one cup of fat free milk. Lunch would consist of two slices of whole wheat bread, with two tablespoons of peanut butter and two tablespoons of jelly, together with an apple and a fat free beverage. Dinner would consist of a chicken breast with vegetables. The book entitled, ‘The Peanut Butter Diet,’ includes a four week meal plan and fifty recipes. Those who conceived the diet, say that the diet works as it allows you to slim down, while still eating many of your favorite comfort food. They also say that Peanut Butter is a healthy monounsaturated fat that helps you lose weight, as well as reducing your risk of diabetics and heart disease. The Peanut Butter Diet plan allows you to eat 1500 calories a day if you are a woman and up to 2,200 calories a day if you are a man. In terms of peanut butter this allows you to incorporate four tablespoons of peanut butter if you are a woman into your daily eating plan.

Advantages

This diet allows you to eat a comfort food.
Many people love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
The Peanut Butter Diet is easy to follow.

Disadvantages

There have been no controlled clinical trials involving this diet.
A number of diet experts have criticized the Peanut Butter Diet.
Almost three million people in the States have peanut allergies.
There is little clinical evidence that this diet actually works and, while the peanut does contain a lot of good nutrients, this looks like a pretty standard healthy eating/ calories counting diet to us.

Conclusion

The Peanut Butter Diet plan involves a strictly controlled calorie regime, if you do lose weight on this diet the reason is likely to be because you have controlled and reduced your calorie intake, than because you have included peanut butter in your diet. A number of people have also criticized this diet as they say that we should be encouraging people to be aware of peanut allergies which can be fatal, rather than encouraging them to eat peanut butter in abundance. At the end of the day if you are sure you do not have any allergies, then you may have some fun on this diet, but it is not a serious long term weight control solution.