One for one cook my potatoes with the skins on. Something I'm thinking to try is bake a few potatoes with the skin still on and with a clove of garlic inside each one. Sounds yummy anyone?
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.
Fructose being processed by the liver is what is metabolically toxic.
Kinda like how 70% of the saturated fats in butter (stearic acid) are metabolized into oleic acid AKA monounsaturated omega-9.
Thats why you stick to basic foods.
Lactose if you are lactose tolerant is a glucose-galactose dimer and bacteria in your gut can turn it into all sorts of goodies like B-vitamins.
Combined with gut flora you probably get more nutrients out of potatoes than you'd think or what you can analyze from them in a chemistry lab.
So the solution to this problem is to simply include other sources of fat and protein. I never said only eat potatoes.Yes your body can make a lot of necessary nutrients (between natural metabolic chemistry and what your gut flora contribute), but it can't make them all.
You aren't getting any ALA (base Omega 3) or LA (base Omega 6) produced within your body, you need them directly from your diet. And while the body can make DHA and EPA (fish oils) from ALA, it's incredibly inefficient.
And you aren't getting nearly enough ALA or LA from a potato. Potatoes may have a complete amino acid profile, which is certainly a significant plus especially during a famine, but if you don't add in enough fatty acid sources, you will definitely not thrive. A 3kg daily diet of potatoes will only provide about 9g of fatty acids. That's not enough ALA or LA to produce all the other necessary fatty acids, nor is it enough fatty acid to use for fat-soluble vitamin metabolism. You'd need to supplement a fair bit of good fat; and unless you are adding specific fatty acids, in vivo production of most of them from ALA and LA is quite bad overall. It happens, but you'd need far more ALA and LA than you should ideally eat in any diet just to produce enough of most of the more important forms.
And that diet will only contain about 60g of protein, which may be sufficient for some but not all, especially if younger and not sedentary. You're body will be dipping into stores (including muscle) using the famine response even if eating a caloric surplus due to the deficits in some macronutrients.
Again, it's totally survivable, but surviving isn't the only goal in a balanced diet.
It's actually pretty cool to know that you can get most nutrients from a single vegetable actually. If you try to incorporate it into lot of meals you can be sure you get most nutrients. I imagine there are other foods like this too.
So the solution to this problem is to simply include other sources of fat and protein. I never said only eat potatoes.
Yeah I ate two microwaved small potatoes with a pat of butter each, and some salt and pepper for an evening dinner last night myself.All things in moderation.
Or, if something you eat actually has the potential to be BAD for you, maybe less than moderation.
I love potatoes. And while I'm not diabetic, they just don't have enough going for them to be included in my diet these days. I eat very few. Occasionally I'll steam some baby red potatoes, whole, with their skins. And that's about it.
Not quite, but you can consume the vast majority of your daily calories with potatoes. In Peru they get ~75% of them from taters.You're saying a potatoe has most of all the nutrients you need?
Man 20 a day... I wouldn't be able to get up and move around.
Not quite, but you can consume the vast majority of your daily calories with potatoes. In Peru they get ~75% of them from taters.
I wouldn't skip those anyway. Maybe just eat less and excise more?Yeah I don't need any more caloric intake, I wake up already exceeding my RDA of calories.
I just thought that crazy canuck knew something about potatoes where I could eat one and could then skip kale, spinach, broccoli and tomatoes.
If you adhere to the Tom Brady Diet, you'd want to stay away from potatoes, which are classified as nightshade plants. Other nightshades: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, & tobacco.
You're saying a potatoe has most of all the nutrients you need?
Man 20 a day... I wouldn't be able to get up and move around.
Who is Tom Brady, and other then tobacco why would I want to stay away from nightshade plants?If you adhere to the Tom Brady Diet, you'd want to stay away from potatoes, which are classified as nightshade plants. Other nightshades: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, & tobacco.
If it's possible to survive off only that I assume it would mean it does provide everything you need, although, probably not in a healthy way. Too much of some things and too little of others. There is a rather specific science to nutrition that is quite complex as far as actually getting the rights amount of everything so you need different combinations of food for that. But if you were in a survival situation it's always good to know that you could grow potatoes. They are rather easy to grow, ex: you don't need to be in a tropical climate like fruits etc.
I'm kinda surprised with all the food knowledge we have now that people aren't living till 150.
Having the knowledge alone doesn't do anything. We have to put this in action. Hell as a population we could do a great deal by simply quit eating fast and processed foods and not to mention all of the sugar we consumed. As well as increasing our activity levels.I'm kinda surprised with all the food knowledge we have now that people aren't living till 150.
I'm kinda surprised with all the food consumption we have now that people are living past 50.I'm kinda surprised with all the food knowledge we have now that people aren't living till 150.
Properly due to modern medicine, and the fact that some people have really good genes.I'm kinda surprised with all the food consumption we have now that people are living past 50.
Gave up nuking them years ago. Oven baked comes out so much better. A firm Russet does take about 1 hour at 400.It doesn't take an hour to bake a potato. Plus there are microwaves, you can boil them or roast them in the oven...
Even so, there is nothing a nice quickly cooked meal when you very hungry.Gave up nuking them years ago. Oven baked comes out so much better. A firm Russet does take about 1 hour at 400.
Gave up nuking them years ago. Oven baked comes out so much better. A firm Russet does take about 1 hour at 400.