are potatoes bad for your health?

Answer 1

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This Spud's for You: It's Okay to Eat Potatoes
No need to couch the carb-heavy potato

Provided By: Berkeley Wellness




Though the low-carb craze may be waning, many people are still avoiding potatoes like the plague. That's a shame, because potatoes are a nutritious, inexpensive, and not particularly fattening food. Unless you fry them or cover them in butter or cream, they are fairly low in calories and are quite filling. True, a baked potato has more calories per ounce than most other vegetables, but it has less than half as many as bread, and fewer calories than rice. And in your quest to eat at least nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day, one medium-size potato counts as two servings.

Besides being good for you, potatoes were once a miracle crop. Imported to Europe from Central and South America around 1570, potatoes contributed needed calories and nutrients to the diet of the poor. Dependence on potatoes became so great that when the crop failed in Ireland in the 1840s, it led to widespread famine and massive emigration to the U.S. Today potatoes are almost universally grown--the world's most widely consumed and economically important vegetable.

On any given day about half of all Americans eat potatoes in some form. The average American ate 136 pounds of them in 2004 (down slightly from a few years ago). Unfortunately, two-thirds of these potatoes were processed. The single biggest use: frozen French fries, especially at fast-food restaurants. Potatoes are indeed contributing to the obesity epidemic in the U.S., but that's primarily because they are fried or are covered in high-calorie ingredients like cheese, butter, cream, sour cream, or mayonnaise. Fast-food French fries are also a leading source of unhealthy trans fats.

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Answer 2

Potatoes are generally a good source of many nutrients. What is bad about them is that fried potatoes in their various forms are not recommended because of the nature of the frying fat. Many fats used in frying have high trans fatty acid content, as well as being high in peroxides, polymers, and other oxidation products. So eat mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes, potato salad, etc., but skip the French fries and the potato chips.

Answer 3

Not exactly. If the intake is just till the limit. As a source of carbohydrates( Plain boiled potatoes ), its very good for growing children. But, as the age goes up, you should reduce the intake of carbohydrates. However, fried potatoes increase the cholestrol content.

Answer 4

No they are not. As a matter fact it has been advised that older people eat potatoes to lessen the risk of stroke. Eat all you want, It cannot hurt you and it is a good complement to any meal. I have them every morning and I also eat yams. which are healthy.

Answer 5

A baked potatoe is not bad for you, as long as you don't load it up with a bunch of crap.

Moderation is the key to eating.

Answer 6

It depends upon how you prepare them and how often you eat them. Fries are not very healthy, but eating them occassionally will not hurt. Better choices would be baked, with low fat toppings on them, boiled and roasted. The human body needs some carbohydrates in order to function, but too much of any one nutrient is not healthy

Answer 7

If they are fried they are.....they can increase your cholestrol level.

Answer 8

no just dont eat too much of it

Answer 9

no

Answer 10

no