do potatoes really can make someone gain weight?

Answer 1

Potatoes are high glycemic and when one researches the way the body responds to things like potatoes, flour, rice, sugar and corn in the body they may seriously think twice about eating them. Do you know they turn to sugar in the stomach or at least react like sugar does. The pancreas starts kicking out insulin to combat the sugar in the stomach.

Think of food as fuel and your body as a fire. Some fuel burns slowly, like firewood. Other types of fuel burn like woodshavings. And some burn like gasoline.

In the case of your body, we want to apply the analogy not to calorie consumption (burning) but to the transition of sugar from the food to the blood.

Some calories transition very quickly into the blood. How quickly this happens is known for many kinds of foods. You can see which foods spike your blood sugar by reading the glycemic index. Here are some highly glycemic foods:

* Root vegetables (e.g., carrots, potatoes).
* Sweet fruits (e.g., bananas, pineapple).
* Dried fruits (e.g. prunes, apricots).
* All fruit juices (you are essentially bypassing a portion of your digestive tract).
* All "engineered" foods--corn (after 5,000 years of cultivation for sweetness) is the classic example.
* Air-popped popcorn (the oil in traditional popcorn slows the transition enormously).

The main hormone for controlling blood sugar levels is insulin. As blood sugar rises, the body pumps out more insulin to lower the blood sugar. Insulin will cause sugar to be taken up into the muscles, first. If the muscles have no room for the sugar, then the presence of insulin causes the body to turn the sugar into fat and store this fat. How long this takes is a function of how much sugar is left after storage in the muscles and how much insulin is circulating. This can vary considerably between individuals and even with the same individual, but it tends to be on the order of minutes.

Eat a potato, and you'll have new fat before you get up from the table--it's too late to "work it off."

Answer 2

It's not the potatoes that make you gain weight but the butter and sour cream.Potatoes are actually good for you.They just get a bad rap from the public.

Answer 3

Yes it does. It become worst when the potatoes are converted into french fries.

Answer 4

Potatoes are a source of relatively simple carbs, so they do turn into glucose like sugar does. If you eat them with their skin on and baked without butter, they're not so baf, but fried... that's a bad combination.

Answer 5

yes, potatoes belong to the carbohydrate group. they provide you with the energy, but when you lack exercise to burn them, they become stored as fat.

what's more, potatoes belong to the white carbohydrate food--those which are digested easily by the body but leave you feeling more hungry than before.