Hey Weight Loss Nation! It’s Ground Hog Day! Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning…..so……. that means 6 more weeks of winter! It’s also Concoction Friday Nation! Today……I’m talking about how healthy Peanut Butter is! www.TheWeightLossNation.com Become a member of Weight Loss Nation Tampa Bay today....for only $20.18 a month for the next 12 months! Here's the link:  Weight Loss Nation Tampa Bay Members  Today's show is sponsored by Allison Hollister - Licensed Massage Therapist, who specializes in Therapeutic Bodywork Therapy in Tampa, FL. If you are in PAIN, and you cannot move your body.....YOU need to call Allison Hollister. She will get rid of the source of your pain, so you can start doing activiites that you love to do! Live in Tampa? Contact Allison at AlliHollister@gmail.com or schedule an appointment at 813-417-3628 Peanut Butter is one of my favorite satisfying foods to eat.                                               Today, we take it for granted on how easy it is to go from the thought of… ”I feel like eating some peanut butter” ……… to either walking into the kitchen and opening up a jar or having it delivered to your door within 2 hrs. by ordering a jar on Amazon Pantry. Peanut Butter is a healthy food and we have Four Men to thank for bringing us this delicious food we enjoy today The four men are: Marcus Gilmore Edson of Canada, John Harvey Kellogg, Ambrose Straub of St. Louis, Missouri and chemist Joseph Rosefield. In 1884, Marcus Edson developed a process to make peanut paste by “milling” roasted peanuts between two heated plates. A year later, The famous cereal maker, Kellogg, received a patent for a technique he developed for making peanut butter with raw peanuts in 1895. Dr. Straub is responsible for patenting a peanut butter making machine in 1903. Peanut butter was introduced to audiences at the 1904 Universal Exposition in St. Louis at C.H. Sumner’s concession stand. Now….96 years later… the man responsible for bringing us peanut butter the way we know and love today… was Joseph Rosefield.   In 1922, through homogenization, Rosefield was able to keep peanut oil from separating from the peanut solids. The rest they say……..is history! Have you ever heard someone say……”They get along like oil and vinegar! What that means….is that oil and vinegar generally don’t mix well together.                        That’s why most Milk is HOMOGENIZED. The physical process breaks down the fat molecules in cream into smaller ones, so that the smaller fat molecules can spread evenly throughout the milk.  This allows the cream and milk to stay together. The same thing is done with Peanut Butter. HOMOGENIZATION allows the oil in peanut butter to mix with the crushed peanuts. Rosefield later sold the patent to a company that began making Peter Pan peanut butter. Rosefield decided to go into the Peanut Butter business for himself …..selling the Skippy peanut butter brand through his Rosefield Packing Company. He also supplied peanut butter for military rations during World War II NOW……let’s take a look at different kinds of Peanut Butter. I grew up on Skippy Peanut Butter or Jif Peanut Butter. Whichever my mom had a coupon for. Now that I’m living a healthy lifestyle…..regular Skippy or Jif Peanut Butter wouldn’t be one of the healthiest choices to make. Let’s take a look at a jar of  Jiff creamy peanut butter…… Here are the ingredients…… Roasted Peanuts and Sugar. Contains 2% or less of……Molasses,.,,Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil …..which means hydrogen is added to break down the fat molecules to produce a more solid saturated fat. The process of Fully hydrogenated produces NO TRANS FATTY ACIDS, which is less harmful to your body than Partially hydrogenated fats. The serving size is  2 Tablespoons. There are 190 calories per serving. Total Fat is 16gms                                                                        Contains  2.5 gms of saturated fat  & there are NO Trans Fat. Saturated fats are simply fats