JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

Am I Missing The Bigger Picture? | JJ Virgin #Shorts | Health, Diet & Weight Loss

7 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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JJ Virgin advises that choosing specific nut butters is a minor concern for fat loss compared with arranging macronutrients—protein, fat, and fiber—for blood sugar balance and satiety. She recommends prioritizing adequate protein (from animal or plant sources), non-starchy vegetables, and healthy fats, and cautions to avoid nut butters with added sugar or hydrogenated/seed oils. Minor differences between fats (e.g., MCT oil vs. cashew butter) are unlikely to meaningfully affect fat loss.

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What are the best nut butters for fat loss and why? Here's the thing, I think you're actually majoring in the minors here. We've got to back it up and look at the majors. And the majors are how are you putting together your protein, fat and fiber to get a trifecta for blood sugar balance and satiety? Starting first with eating your protein. And of course if you're eating animal protein, you'll probably get some fats in that. If you're eating a plant based protein, you're either going to have some carbs in there or some fat in there. So we're going to count that in and then of course eating some non starchy vegetables and then adding in that fat. And so really it is minuscule. Like MCT oil will probably have a bitter better impact for you than or cocoa butter than say cashew butter. But it's not a big effect. These are not the bigger ones. It's the macro that's having the bigger effect than the, than the micro piece here. So I really wouldn't worry about the types except making sure that your nut butter doesn't have added sugar or dirty seed oils, hydrogenated fats in it. That would be the thing that could take a good thing and make it bad.