Does peanut butter have healing properties?!


Question:

Does peanut butter have healing properties?

I have been fighting a serious infection for the last two weeks and all I want to eat is peanut butter. Morning, noon and night, just peanut butter. Any idea why I might be craving this? I've been through 4 jars!


Answers:

Peanut butter doesn't have healing properties but what you are describing is a pica. A pica when you crave something, peanut butter is mostly protein so maybe your body is doing something with protein.

Here some information that I found:
Theories about what causes pica abound. The nutritional theory suggests that nutritional deficiency, such as iron deficiency, trigger specific cravings. Some evidence supports the hypothesis that at least some pica is a response to dietary deficiency - nutritional deficiencies are often associated with pica and correction of that deficiency has improved symptoms. Some pregnant women, for example, have stopped eating nonfood items after they were treated for iron deficiency anemia, a common condition among pregnant women with pica. However, not everyone responds when a nutritional deficiency is corrected, which may be a consequence of the behavior (rather than the cause). But there are also people with pica who don't have a documented nutritional deficiency.




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