This is really well written and easily digestible. It’s rare that content about diet is lighthearted and fun! No outlandish claims, very little misconstrued science, but tons of funny fads. Usually you’d have to dig deep to find the root of the authors point in articles like this, but the simplicity is baked in from the start.
Thoughts on the potato diet
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#22This sounds like a great way to quickly deplete most of your vitamins and minerals.
Agreed, it does sound that way, but it's amazing how many anecdotes there are of people who eat exclusively 1 type of food and thrive on it. I don't think modern intuition about nutrition is likely to stand the test of time.
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#23Is weight loss the only reason behind "Dieting"? Isn't the "carnivore diet" around mental fitness? That's why I choose a low carb diet, mental and physical fitness(when I'm not actively exercising, I try to limit my carb/sugar intake to mornings before I run)
Endurance training on an empty stomach is a great ketone pathways excercise, the first few times are hard but get easier afterwards!
I can confirm. I was preparing from marathon some years ago and the fastest improvements I have seen were when I started going for runs on empty stomach in the morning.
But, I would make sure to give all my body needs immediately after the exercise.
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#24This sounds like a great way to quickly deplete most of your vitamins and minerals.
Potatoes have nearly everything you need to survive. You won't have any deficiencies until you eat only straight potatoes for a full year or more.
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#25I did plain chicken and sweet potatoes for a month. No spices, boiled or baked. Water or Green Tea. Best I have ever felt. Ended six months of whole body agony. I try and follow AIP these days. (Potatoes aren't allowed, but Sweet Potatoes are.)
I gotta ask: why no spices?
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#26I did plain chicken and sweet potatoes for a month. No spices, boiled or baked. Water or Green Tea. Best I have ever felt. Ended six months of whole body agony. I try and follow AIP these days. (Potatoes aren't allowed, but Sweet Potatoes are.)
I gotta ask: why no spices?
It’s a diet for autoimmune disorders.
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#27Eat less food and move more. There's literally nothing to losing weight beyond that. It's incredible to me the amount of mental gymnastics that people will perform to avoid facing this.
Simple is not always easy. I think it's important that we find easier ways to help alleviate this obesity epidemic.
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#28This sounds like a great way to quickly deplete most of your vitamins and minerals.
I wouldn't quite say "most" as potatoes are surprisingly nutritious, but yes, it is notable that the article doesn't contain the words "nutrient(s)", "nutritious", "vitamin(s)" or anything similar I could think of.
I've always been curious whether many of these diets lacking appropriate B vitamin requirements might have a compounding effect w.r.t. people's interest & willingness to continue trying such diets...
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#30There's actually some science behind this diet. Potatoes are the highest scoring food on the satiety index. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/15-incredibly-filling-f...
Basically they're the most filling food per calorie. So if you subscribe to the idea that losing weight is mainly about how many calories you consume, a potato heavy diet should be effective.
And an all potato diet, while monomaniacal, even more effective.
Eggs and fish are also very high on the satiety index. If you threw in pretty much any vegetables and spices of your choosing and just stuck to those along with potatoes, even with a cheat day or three you'd have a very healthy diet which I bet most people would lose weight on.