Let's say you really need to find reliable information about the best diet for high blood pressure

or heart disease or diabetes.

Where do you go?

You go to a website sponsored by Big Pharma that wants to sell you pills to fix your problem

or do you want to treat the cause?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast with the latest peer reviewed research on the

best ways to eat healthy and live longer.

Today we turn a laser-like focus to that round tuber we call the potato.

Are they good for us?

Bad for us here is our first story.

The trouble for white potatoes began in 2006.

When the Harvard Nurses Health Study was at fault of the diets and diseases of tens of

thousands of women for 20 years found that greater potato intake was associated with

the greater likelihood of getting type 2 diabetes.

Okay but wait, of the hundreds of pounds of potatoes Americans eat every year, most are

in deep fried form of potato chips and french fries.

What happened when they looked specifically at mashed or baked potatoes?

They found the same link with diabetes.

Okay but what might potato eaters eat more of?

I'll give you a hint by rephrasing that as what might meat potatoes people eat more

of.

Indeed people ate more potatoes ate more meat and we know that animal protein on its own

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