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Hi guys,

I eat natural peanut butter… A LOT! I’ve been eating it for desert for a couple of years now. I was wondering if there is some complete chart about all the nutrients in it and was wondering if I could get deficient on some nutrients because of this habit.

I tried magnesium recently and didn’t react that good, so I was wondering if maybe the fact that peanut butter is high in magnesium might mean I have too much of it already and am depleted of other nutrients.

I am trying to eat a lot of healthy fat, and peanut butter just does the trick for me. It keeps my blood glucose low, makes me feel full, and makes me feel good. However, after a couple of years of this regimen, I wonder if it didn’t create long-term deficiency.

Thanks!

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If you dont sleep as much there are more hours in the day that you’re awake, so you’d be eating more. Would this mean that you’d likely gain weight because you’re awake for more hours? I’m a skinny person with a regular eating diet, but I do feel bad sometimes when I can seem to fall asleep and need to eat late at night because I’m putting in extra calories I wouldnt otherwise have if I were sleeping?