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Don't Major In The Minors - Focus On The Big Stuff! | JJ Virgin #Shorts | Health, Diet & Weight Loss

26 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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JJ Virgin (YouTube short, Oct 26, 2022) advises that when aiming for fat loss you should focus on the 'majors'—macronutrient composition—rather than obsessing over which nut butter to choose. Primary recommendations: prioritize protein (animal or plant, counting accompanying fats/carbs), include non-starchy vegetables (fiber), and pair with healthy fats to promote blood-sugar balance and satiety. Nut butter choice matters little beyond avoiding added sugars and hydrogenated/seed oils.

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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 we 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 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, or dirty seed oils, hydrogenated fats in it. That would be the thing that could take a good thing and make it bad.