I'm guessing you meant "air fry?"There seems to be a lot of mixed views on potatoes. I think it really depends how you cook them. Potato chips or french fries are probably not that healthy. Though I do wonder how french fries done in an actifry fair as far as health goes... I recently got one and a potato cutter that makes fries, and I'll never go back to frozen fries again.
Taters gonna tate.
Potato's gonna potate.
Earlier this week, I made my pottage but added a large potato and onion to it. Baking and grilling are the most healthiest ways to cook them.There seems to be a lot of mixed views on potatoes. I think it really depends how you cook them. Potato chips or french fries are probably not that healthy. Though I do wonder how french fries done in an actifry fair as far as health goes... I recently got one and a potato cutter that makes fries, and I'll never go back to frozen fries again.
Earlier this week, I made my pottage but added a large potato and onion to it. Baking and grilling are the most healthiest ways to cook them.
Walmart share holder?Found this article while browsing fount it to be really amazing since a potato farmer decided to prove naysayers wrong by consuming nothing but spuds during a few months. Afterwards not only was he still alive and well, but also ended up becoming healthier on top of this. 20 potatoes per day....
air fryer still uses oil.There seems to be a lot of mixed views on potatoes. I think it really depends how you cook them. Potato chips or french fries are probably not that healthy. Though I do wonder how french fries done in an actifry fair as far as health goes... I recently got one and a potato cutter that makes fries, and I'll never go back to frozen fries again.
Oil isn't inherently bad. In fact, I'd consider it a bonus on a Mayne potato diet. Everything in moderation.
I would use a pat of butter or small dollop of sour cream on a large baked or grilled potato. Three or four such spuds prepared in such a manner should provide enough daily calories.Yeah, it's only bad if you overdo consumption or consume too much of one type, and if the extraction method and cooking method (at or above smoke point) are bad. Cold pressed oils are good. You need some fat to absorb fat-soluble vitamins. Plus some are rich in omega-3, vitamins, and other nutrients.
But Voigt says it’s harder than he thought to eat the roughly 7 pounds of spuds a day with nothing but a little oil, herbs or chicken bouillon.
Chris Voigt: “I think when I started this diet I underestimated how physically difficult it is to eat 20 potatoes. You’re feeling full all the time. I’m literally having to eat three potatoes every couple of hours. So it’s a challenge even to find the time to eat that much.”
Even the Irish back before the famine ate other things besides potatoes as spuds formed the vast majority of their diet, not all of it.https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130763552
And what would any enterprising American do after suck a publicity stunt? Why, he'd promote it as the latest and greatest diet fad, of course. It probably got enough press back in 2010 that he figured he could make a few bucks from it. I don't think it caught on.
http://www.20potatoesaday.com/
air fryer still uses oil.
can you air fry w/o oil?
or is that just called baking?
To be clear, I'm not in any shape or form promoting this diet. This just shows that the humble spud can form the bulk of it, but I would still eat a variety of other foods as well. However the common potato is still way better then living off instant Raman noodles.
To be clear, just how reliable is the Glycemic Index for determining which foods are the safest for diabetics to consume?White potatoes are one of the higher glycemic index foods. Bad idea if you're diabetic.
To be clear, just how reliable is the Glycemic Index for determining which foods are the safest for diabetics to consume?
These two links on the Index:What do you mean "reliable"? The science behind what spikes or controls blood sugar levels? What else do you have to go on? I suppose you can choose for yourself whether or not to believe the prevailing knowledge in the field, but can't think why you'd do so.
While I'm planning on eating more spuds, they will be far from the only thing I eat and won't even be a large part of my diet.Yeah while you can survive on potatoes alone (ideally with at least something additional, like oils, herbs, veggies, etc), it isn't really a way to thrive.
Potatoes are in fact pretty bad for you when you otherwise eat well-rounded but tend to consume a lot of potatoes. That's because it's a lot of excess simple starches. Yes there are important nutrients in a potato, but you can get them elsewhere in a healthier manner.
That said, if it's the bulk of your daily diet, that means your body is subsisting on largely carbohydrates alone, and when doing that the body can tolerate it and won't necessarily gain weight. This is also true when factoring in the vast amount of effort involved with prepping and eating enough potatoes to subsist on a daily basis: you're going to be chewing and actively digesting a heck of a lot of raw material practically all day long, which means your metabolism is going to be quite high unless you are also keeping to a caloric deficit, in which case metabolic rate will drop significantly. That's what happens during a true famine period for your body, if you aren't even eating enough your body burns far fewer calories when in a resting state. Of course, that requires a prolonged caloric deficit. If you are eating enough potatoes to mostly meet your normal healthy metabolic requirements, it won't drop.
You don't want to live on carbs alone for your entire life, that is not sustainable unless you don't care about thriving. But the body is well-adapted to handle famine for short periods of time, able to subsist on largely anything made of some basic building blocks. Ideally you can find enough fats and proteins to at least stave off muscle and fat store depletion, but that is still no guarantee of long-term health.
Honestly if everything is broken down into amino acids, sugars and fats I don't see why it really matters. Your body can make fat from starch. It depends what starches. And the complex starches in potatoes get turned into glucose.Yeah while you can survive on potatoes alone (ideally with at least something additional, like oils, herbs, veggies, etc), it isn't really a way to thrive.
Potatoes are in fact pretty bad for you when you otherwise eat well-rounded but tend to consume a lot of potatoes. That's because it's a lot of excess simple starches. Yes there are important nutrients in a potato, but you can get them elsewhere in a healthier manner.
That said, if it's the bulk of your daily diet, that means your body is subsisting on largely carbohydrates alone, and when doing that the body can tolerate it and won't necessarily gain weight. This is also true when factoring in the vast amount of effort involved with prepping and eating enough potatoes to subsist on a daily basis: you're going to be chewing and actively digesting a heck of a lot of raw material practically all day long, which means your metabolism is going to be quite high unless you are also keeping to a caloric deficit, in which case metabolic rate will drop significantly. That's what happens during a true famine period for your body, if you aren't even eating enough your body burns far fewer calories when in a resting state. Of course, that requires a prolonged caloric deficit. If you are eating enough potatoes to mostly meet your normal healthy metabolic requirements, it won't drop.
You don't want to live on carbs alone for your entire life, that is not sustainable unless you don't care about thriving. But the body is well-adapted to handle famine for short periods of time, able to subsist on largely anything made of some basic building blocks. Ideally you can find enough fats and proteins to at least stave off muscle and fat store depletion, but that is still no guarantee of long-term health.