Potato Diet Details and Health Advantages

Would this potato diet be ideal for a diabetic, or should they substitute the white potatoes with yams?

Potatoes are my favorite vegetable i would only trade it for corn��

They are as healthy as sugar because starch is made from sugar, your body breaks down starch into sugar. There are about the same amount of sugar molecules in one gram of starch as one gram of sugar. It’s as if he is saying a tonne of bricks is heavier than a tonne of feathers. Your body can produce any glucose if required from the proteins you eat. Carbs are not required. Most Europeans didn’t eat potatoes until the Spanish came back from South America in the early 15th century. We have only consumed them for about 500 years!

MISSED OPPORTUNITY:
This was a prime opportunity to talk about the HUGE difference between a freshly cooked potato (very high glycemic) and a RS or resistant starch-rich Potato.
When a potato is cooked, then cooled for 24 hrs or more (and it can even be reheated up to 140d) is becomes rich in a special kind of starch that feeds your good gut microbes. Especially the ones that make very healthy anti-inflammatory SCFAs.
ALSO potatoes can have up to 30 pesticides, fungicides etc. on/in them. Buy organic ones to be sure. You can even grow them in a container garden on your porch.

Sometimes you just got to quit chasing rainbows and eat that white potato.

My grandfather had a 1000 acres of potatoes in the UK. Lived to be 90, smoked a pipe, walked a good bit, but potatoes were on every meal. No body was fat. But we were eating potatoes for 400 years, so we had no reactions to deadly nightshade plants. Lots of people, all Madagascans, and many others are allergic to deadly nightshade plants. Potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants. A DN free diet cures Hidradenitis suppurativa within a couple of weeks. Rhumatoid diseases also. So if you have any of these, think twice before going on an all potato diet.

40 percent of daily sooo if we eat and more vegeties we muuuust consume no more than 1 potatoe day???????

Forgot to mention that some types are higher in fiber (the Russetts are low in fiber).

If people can lose weight eating potatoes, how many are we talking about?

i eat potato every day i just bake them and add a little salt, the only time it’s unhealthy is when its fried with unnecessary fats

This is why many go back to eating animal parts and their liquids. Back or steam your 5 pound bags of yellow potatoes. We need calories to sustain

Every glycemic index study I have seen lists white potatoes as way more glycemic even than white bread, which is terrible for you. You should avoid white potatoes like the plague, as with any other simple carb, if you want to be healthy.

good job, but seems to only address the brown russet potato. so need to explore for the other varieties. thank you

Does he ever address spiking glucose i.e. potatoes spike blood sugar which is not good for you.  Even cooked/cooled potatoes still do.  Thanks.

Is there an ideal pairing with a legume or? such that the combination of the protein in potatoes creates a complete protein the way beans and rice do?

We only eat white potatoes one way. Washed cubed Baked lightly and then sauteed with onion to make home fries, skins on with black pepper and fresh snipped chives yummy so yummy

My dad always told me growing up that if I wanted to be strong, I’d have to eat A LOT of potatoes. Bodybuilders eat them for carbs and they play a role in building muscle, so he’s at least half right!

I eat white potatoes at least a couple times a week and usually in some kind of soup. I love them and don’t think they are the Least bit harmful

i find boiled potatoes less satiating than barley bites with 13% fiber, if my stomach has problems and i want to take some carb calories they can be gentle to my stomach!

A nice baked potatoe, with a big dollop of sour cream, another of butter, salt, pepper, chives, bacon. Sooooo tasty. Nothing but that for two weeks? Excellent!

Please talk a bit faster and a little less clear, because we can still hear and make out some of your words.

Without the potato, half the population of Europe would not exist.

One can not live on kale only… ��. Let‘s mix & and enjoy those healthy tubers!

Confusing video. I don’t care if sweet potatoes are healthier, i just want to know if white potatoes are safe to eat sometimes. White potatoes without added extras, so like just boiled spuds or baby potatoes without added oil or butter or salt.

As a T2 diabetic potato’s will kill you eventually this is after kidney disease you go blind and start amputating your limbs I love potatoes mash baked fried you name it but they don’t love me again they’re probably fine for a healthy person but for a type two diabetic they are poison even in small amounts they just have way too many carbs for the amount of micronutrients they have, again the keyword here being healthy healthy people without diabetes can eat this food, diabetics cannot

Okay but where are you getting all of your vitamins mineralsand other things that are absolute necessity for the body like vitamin c from if all you’re eating is potatoes. Can you survive on potatoes, yes. Should you eat only potatoes, no.

I don’t like sweet potatoes. I normally bake my white potato and have it with some steamed corn, peas, and broccoli with a little salt, pepper, and a little bit of vegan butter.

what he is saying is true verifed in OAHSPE prophets of jehovih lived a diet of rice nuts and fruits such as chine

What can we do when potatoes. Or all vegetables sit in warehouses for months before we get to buy it. o

This is plain stupidity. If you are a type 2 diabetic, all potato-diet will surely trigger blood sugar spikes. Verify this using a glucose device one hour after meal.

lmao “everytime you eat this food you could be eating something healthier” aka how to cause eating disorders.. by that logic we might aswel only eat whatever food is the healthiest which is what i wonder.. Dr Greger and Dr Fuhrman have no mercy i swear

Does Dr McDougall state in any of his videos that potatoes are okay for diabetics? I see in the glycemic index that baked potatoes are at about 85 on the index while boiled potatoes have an index of 50. Mashed potatoes are also at 85. Seems like it make be the texture/softness of the potatoes after cooking that effects the rate. (Softer means it gets into you system quicker and causes a rush of insulin) Just curious as to what his take is on potatoes and diabetics overall.

The perfect food with the highest glycemic index of anything other than pure sugar….

BECAUSE AMERICAN dont eat rice everyday…. everything that the US export is said to be healthy. EAT A POUND OF MSG a day and you’ll see a doctor till you are 97.

The white potato is an almost perfect food. You could almost live on white potatoes exclusively. How do we know this? because people have lived on potatoes, not only in the past but more recently in scientific studies. You would need to add a green like broccoli and a little fruit for a complete diet over the very long term. I have lived on a soup made with Yukon Gold potatoes and corn for 2 years straight. I also ate fruit. I lost weight, got lean, gained muscle through moderate excercise and after 20 months, had a full physical and I was healthier after 20 months of eating like this than I ever was when I was younger. I continued for 4 more months at which point I added other veggies. Forget Greger, he is wrong more often than right….. follow and learn from Dr. John McDougall. Dr. McDougall has been saving people with his McDougall eating style for about 50 years. The man is a giant in the field. The difference between Dr. Mcdougall and Greger is that Greger gets his information from other people’s studies……. Dr. McDougall on the other hand has about 50 years of DIRECT clinical experience, first hand experience with his own patients PLUS the hundreds of thousands that he has helped through his website and books. Eat white potatoes (follow the FREE recipes available on the web which Dr. McDougall provides) you will live longer and better lives.

Interestingly, those results on chilled potatoes are similar to those of chilled pasta: chilled (and then re-heated) pasta is better for you than freshly-cooked pasta. Strange how starches change after being chilled, isn’t it?

White potatoes prepared without added fats or junk are a whole, plant food and healthy with tons of vitamins, minerals, fiber, resistant startch and other goodies. White potatoes have sustained entire populations, from pre-columbian Incans to the modern Irish. Look up the potato hack or potato diet and you’ll see that people lose weight and improve health by eating a diet exclusively composed of white potatoes for a few days or weeks at a time. Dr. Greger is wrong here and his argument that sweet potatoes are healthier is a poor one as we can almost always make this argument and you can’t let perfection get in the way. For many people trying a whole foods, plant based diet, potatoes are a familiar comfort food that they have eaten their entire lives and can continue to eat if you tell them not to eat potatoes, you are unnecessarily making the transition from SAD diet to WFPB diet unnecessarily more difficult than it has to be.

Dont let the vegans fool you ->
”The diet consisted of potatoes, supplemented with

butter or pork fat with the addition of a few fruits (apples and pears); tea

or black coffee and sugar were also occasionally taken. The amount of fat

consumed was not accurately estimated, it varied from 120-150 g. daily.”

You cannot live without the fat soluble vitamins A,D,E,K.

I eat white potatoes and I eat the skin too. They’re a good source of iodine and many other minerals and vitamins. They really can’t be compared to sweet potatoes, which are healthy in other ways but taste nothing like white potatoes. I eat mine with very healthy ketchup I make myself with no sugar and no salt.
Also, I often eat iceberg lettuce because it has a texture that sickening arugula can’t begin to approach. It is filling and very low calorie.

He doesn’t seem to have a straight forward answer as to why he listed white potatoes as yellow/red light foods…

saying “you could replace white with sweet… this makes white potatoes yellow/red light because sweet potatoes are healthier” doesn’t really make sense…

because by that logic you could list broccoli as yellow/red light simply because eating broccoli is a lost opportunity to eat broccoli sprouts…

I wanted to hear him address whether they’re considered harmless or harmful…

He made a video years ago listing baked white potatoes as a red light food… yet I recently heard him in a Q&A saying white potatoes are healthful because they’re a whole plant food and he didn’t seem to recall his previous videos stating that they’re harmful…

I’d like to see a video about nutrient restriction and I don’t mean “fasting”. The idea that foods with fewer nutrients are ultimately more healthful. There’s a potential fallacy that assumes that more nutrients = better. Like if you eat 2,000 calories of broccoli a day you run the risk of being poisoned by Thallium. So foods such as potatoes, white rice etc. potentially save you if eaten for a certain amount of time.

I would boil or steam them to reduce the acrylamide content. I think if u plan on roasting them, use oregano to reduce the production of acrylamides.

If you limit yourself to all you can eat potatoes�� and veggies �� you simply can not over eat or gain weight, it’s really fabulous

Even though ppl would say potatoes are bad n make you put on weight….I never listened to them ��

I buy a bag of Russet potatoes every 12th bag or so eat as large a variety as you can. Skip the oil. ❤

Can you make a video about food combinations? Because I supposed to gain weight, but it’s pretty hard If you have to be aware of the food combinations and are sensitive to gluten and other things..

If potatoes have a high glycemic index does that not make them unhealthy?

I didn’t even have to watch the whole video to know potatoes are completely good for you, vegetable grown from the earth. Common sense. Eat as much as you want. People have been doing potato only diets eating as much as you want and these people are losing 100s of pound of fat and their blood works are looking amazing, dropped blood pressure and blood sugars are perfect.eat potatoes all day.

But watch out for the skin of the potato glycoalkaloids are poisons.

I boil potatoes in pork broth (which I get from boiling pork belly to tenderise it). Few things are tastier, and yes, I do keep the skin on. Talking about foods that are as tasty with so little effort, only sweet potato and beef (boiled with a dash of pepper, salt and cinnamon) trump potatoes for me.

Thanks for such a great video. I’d like to know your opinion on french fries made out a Air Fryer. Many thx

What about boiled or in the oven? Does it make any difference?

Everyday when I get home
First thing I do is chop up a
Russet potato and fry it in butter
Add chopped onions
Then I make a two egg sandwich
With Ez 4:9 bread and sharp cheddar
Sliced onions.

Where are the Keto and low carbers at? With all there talk that carbs cause diabetes

For 4weeks I have been on a potato and veggie diet. I love it and I have lost weight and inches. I am not tired of it at all❤️

I only eat Potatoes on my soup, Air Fried French Fries, Baked, but watching this right now I thought about N.Y French Fries…they are so delicious…

Nice to not be hungry all the time. Putting starches, including potatoes as the primary food has helped me stop craving food. I never thought I’d be able to say that. I’m a very sick, lifetime food addicted woman. Healthier than ever and glad to be 80, I’ll take it.

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I swear to gosh Potatoes are good ��

We only occasionally put them in our home made veggie soup along with lots of nutrient dense veggies, herbs and spices.

I wonder how much vitamin C is in the potatoes after they’ve been heated, cooled, reheated, cooled, etc. Has anyone actually researched and tested this? Vitamin C is sensitive to heat, air, and water. Guarantee there is little to none of it in a cooked potato. Not only that, but you act as though fat is a bad thing, and it isn’t! Ever try living without it? You can’t.

He’s full of shit! Starting to remind me of a typical pharma doctor!

Extremism. Perfectly healthy veggie. Sure, you need some other veggies with it, but it supplies lots of calories which are kind of the whole point. Same with iceburg lettuce, by itself it’s nothing, but it makes a good filler for the other somewhat bitter leafy vegetables that get added to a salad. Lighten up a little.

I’m fine with most other starches like rice. But man, potatoes just mess me up for some reason. Inflamed joints, kidney pain, blood pressure goes up, insomnia, etc. It’s like eating steak again. I’ve been WFPB for 4 years, last 1 year I’ve been on McDougal’s starch solution. I’ve eaten white, yellow, red, purple skin, purple flesh from the Asian market, boiled, baked, soaked, cooled reheated, etc, but there’s no difference. They are like eating the grim reaper’s testicles for me. I’m sure the potatoes of today are much different than our ancestors.

Dr.Mcdougall is the most genius doctor of plant based community.He says potatoes are one of the best starches.It means we must eat potatoes freely.And he never talks about potato junk food at all.

There are literally hundreds of different kinds of potatoes. See this item in Wikipedia: List of potato cultivars
Due to the economics of agribusiness we have gotten used to the idea that there are only 4 or 5 types. Not so.

White potatoes are wonderfully healthy. Just read Dr. McDougall on how they have and continue to save the world from hunger and malnutrition. Dr. Greger built his empire on “Super food theory,” based on super antioxidates and other miraculous substances, and he judges everything from that prism. But history shows that populations in all parts of the planet have thrived on potatoes. Now we know that too many “super foods”l as promoted by Greger and Joel Fuhrman can cause over nutrition. So lay off of the humble potato

I always pack on weight when I eat potatoes (and I eat oil free)

The North American ‘food guides’, aren’t going to be happy with this one.

What about the Eskimos/Inuits surviving and thriving off a high animal fat and protein diet?

I started making a soup that is so easy and so cheap. Carrot potatoes celery tomato basil garlic simmer with a little water (not too much bc you want it to be thicker and you get a lot of juice from the tomatoes) puree about 1/4 of it and mix it back together. I add chopped spinach into the bowl after i reheat it. I make a big batch every sunday and it is my lunch everyday and has been for probably close to 6 months lol. I also have been eating a sweet potato at dinner just about every night too and i am far from tired of either. They are so good and so affordable and so satifying. Ive noticed that I just dont eat meat anymore. Was never my intention. I also have lost 10-15lbs but probably bc my portions are in control but i absolutely owe that to none other than potatoes! Yay potatoes! lol:)

I thought I knew what the “takeaway” was, but Gregor lost me at the end. ��
Imo, white potatoes, as long as they aren’t fried and topped with animal products, are healthy for you. Plenty of people do well with them and they’re a great source of calories and nutrition. I think if you’re carb-sensitive (of which I am), sweet potatoes are better..but also, ultimately, eating whole plant foods, regardless of the studies, is what’s important. Pitting whole plant foods against each other just seems absurd. ����

Potatoes lack vitamin B12, calcium, and zinc — which are all essential to health.

Following a well-balanced diet that includes a variety of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, and lean protein is better for your health and promotes sustainable weight loss.

Wow, you mean you lose weight when you go on a starvation diet? Amazing.

I lived on potatoes a lot when I first went vegan 10 years ago, probably the first 2 months really and did fine. I still like tofu and potatoes scrambled and baked in olive oil with dill and turmeric honestly, good stuff.

God dammit bobby, here I am watching McPotato again, I love John McDougall. I’d really rename him to Tony Starch mauahahaha…sorry.