Man, I'm Polish...I could never give up potatoes, especially with their versatility. You can make anything with 🥔. Thank you for all your hard work researching and teaching us how to be healthier😊
I lost over 100 pounds by going on a plant based diet, eating lentil stew with plenty of microwaved potatoes skinned and cubed and thrown in my lentil soup to help thicken it etc. My stats improved greatly. So I personally feel potatoes are great to add to a plant based diet but no butter or salt added. Just throw it in other dishes with lots of great spices like garlic, onion, turmeric and maybe some California chilies etc 🥳👍😍
Discovered a new way to cook white, red and Yukon potatoes. I call it Smashed potatoes. Wash and cut the potatoes in 1/2, Microwave till soft enough to smash. Place potatoes on a cooking sheet or parchment paper top and bottom. Use a sauce pan to smash the potatoes flat. Remove the top sheet. Cook skin side down conventional oven 375 degrees for 45 min. Cook till golden brown and crispy. No condiments oil or butter needed!
I make a large pot of soup every 5 or 6 days with 8 vegetables and either beans or lentils. One of the vegetables is potatoes just like the people in Sardinia Italy and Ikaria Greece who eat potatoes regularly in their soup. No fast food no highly processed foods and either no animal products or limiting animal products to much less than 10% of your diet is the way to go.
I love potato. Always have. Up until air-fryers came out most of my potato's were steamed with skin on. Now I've been pre-cooking and chilling potato and then reheat with the air fryer. I'm wondering if we were better off without air fryers?
I eat mine the same way, I love them - you don't really need anything on them when you cook them that way. I also make potato/leek soup which I love, dairy free of course.
Whole Foods still has purple sweet potatoes available even in July (supposedly out of season). Ps don’t forget about acrilamide-I boil mine (lower temp)
Desde que le sigo y me documento con toda la información de su web, he podido cambiar los alimentos que ingiero y la manera en que los cocino. Papas fritas en la AirFryer muy raras veces, cuando el plato lo requiere (más por no variar mucho el platillo). Cuando de tubérculos se trata, más consumo camote morado, por lo general al vapor y menos veces, al horno o en la AirFryer
I eat three meals of well cooked pulses, 1. white beans 2. black eyed bean aka fava 3. chickpeas. I do that because I workout, the issue is that I got gas which ruin my days, I can't go anywhere that long bcuz I need to fart a big one and maybe go to the bathroom to flush some of those high fiber foods like oats as well, the Q will I get any disease if I keep doing the same food everyday, may I get colon/digestive cancer or something like that?
They don’t even discuss sweet potatoes. The Okinawa were pretty healthy consuming 1/2 their diet of sweet potatoes!! Most people inUSA do not eat plain potatoes with skin!!
Why? My takeaway was that Dr. Greger determined potatoes are healthy… unless they are fried. Dr. McDougal is anti- any fats, even avocados and nuts. In a previous video Dr. Greger said the glycemic load of potatoes can be drastically reduced by cooking, refrigerating, then reheating. (Turns the simple starch into “resistant” starch) I always have some in the refrigerator. I especially like to boil or steam the small potatoes sold in assorted colors. After refrigeration, I smash them and crisp them in the air fryer. Who needs French fries?
@@soniajacobs3038 Exactly my thoughts Sonia! And Amen to boiling spuds in their jackets then chilling them til meal time, then smashing & air frying! SUPER YUM with tomato sauce but personally i love them with that healthy fat-free vegan cheese sauce doing the rounds that is easy to make in a blender with just carrots, potatoes & spices! PS...my method for smashing them is pressing down on each cold spud with the bottom of a jam jar to flatten them, then pressing with a potato masher so they are thin but have textured prickly bits sticking up, which crisp up like crunchy heaven in the air fryer!
@@smilebot484 McDougall is not wrong, you can live and thrive on potatoes and sweet potatoes only, for as long as you want or need to. He doesn't talk about "miracle foods" but he does call potatoes and sweet potatoes "the perfect food" because you will not only live but regain your health by making them the cornerstone of your diet. An Australian man, Andrew Spudfit Taylor, ate only potatoes and sweet potatoes for a whole year, lost 120 pounds and cure himself of a host of health problems, without incurring any deficiencies. Countless others have done it since, look up "The Spudfit Challenge". No other foods can do that on their own. So yes, potatoes are special and you cannot do much better than them for a sole all-rounder nutrition powerhouse, or as the foundation of a healthy diet.
Okay, anecdotic I know - I fasted for 24 hours with water only. My BP dropped and I lost 3 lbs. I am thinking that I am abusing the salt shaker, and using products w/ a lot of sodium.
Any chance these studies took into account the amount of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, GMO's, and other chemicals and heavy metals in the potatoes? I love all potatoes, but they are definitely a sink for contamination and since they are so popular, ie. fries I'm sure there are some seriously unscrupulous methods for getting the best bang for the buck growing them, just look at the contracts McDonald's has with growers, it's scary. Grow your own if you can, it's really easy 😊
acrylamides...extra virgin olive oil sprinkled on your potato is antiflamatory or is non-commercial butter (I found raw from grass fed cows in Normandy hence still with enzymes that help to digest diary for those with weak microbiota)
I think he is realizing that it is the company that potatoes keep that is the real problem. This whole business of trying to tease out the effects of one plant product on health are so complicated that scientists begin to lose credibility when they make such attempts.
I have a theory about eating potatoes. Potatoes aren't unhealthy to eat, but eating potatoes can be unhealthy! Potatoes are cheap, satiating and large in volume. One may eat some meat, fish, fowl or some vegan protein and eat a couple baked potatoes and have no room left for any multi color fruits, vegetables, legumes or grains, then, being derived of all the many nutrients derived from such. Just do what I do. Eat a couple of tangerine sized potatoes, THOROUGHLY CLEANED WITH SKINS ON. You'll get the nutritional benefits of potatoes, their hungry curbing quality and the full benefits of other whole foods, that one includes in the meal.
My husband has the same problem. After some research, we've found that cooking, then cooling the potatoes in the fridge, then reheating them (this creating resistant starch) solved that problem. Same with white rice. Google resistant starch for more info. Good luck.
Dr. Greger has said before that potatoes should be cooked, refrigerated, and reheated to decrease the glycemic load. Chilling changes the simple starch to resistant starch.
That's most likely because sugar has a low glycemic index, the fructose part which is often higher than glucose in fruits is goes to your liver to be processed in the same way as alcohol and if excessive leads to fatty liver disease. Definitely eat fruits but don't chug down litres of commercial fruit juice which is usually cooked and fibre removed.
GMO Hybrid potatoes is what you need to stay clear from, do this.............buy a contaminated potato from Idaho and a organic potato, put both in your pantry for 7 days and look at the results, you will not like what you see.
If you're stupid enough to eat a steak, you must also be stupid enough to eat green potatoes; that's the main way you can get those two rare form of poisons. 🙄
McDougall got me big on potatoes. Here I am years after in the healthiest shape of my life.
Man, I'm Polish...I could never give up potatoes, especially with their versatility. You can make anything with 🥔. Thank you for all your hard work researching and teaching us how to be healthier😊
I eat boiled potatoes with skin and it's no problem with me even cured my uric acid
I love ❤️ potatoes 🥔 and I support Dr McDougall diet!
Potatoes are innocent .. leave my potatoes alone .. its the French fries 🍟.. ban that .. we love ❤ Dr G 😍
Andrew Taylor "Spud Fit" only ate potatoes for a year and lost 120 lbs. His blood work improved, and he cured his depression and anxiety.
I lost over 100 pounds by going on a plant based diet, eating lentil stew with plenty of microwaved potatoes skinned and cubed and thrown in my lentil soup to help thicken it etc. My stats improved greatly. So I personally feel potatoes are great to add to a plant based diet but no butter or salt added. Just throw it in other dishes with lots of great spices like garlic, onion, turmeric and maybe some California chilies etc 🥳👍😍
Thank you again and again Dr Greger… you and your team are wonderful human beings 🙏👏👏👏👏
Discovered a new way to cook white, red and Yukon potatoes. I call it Smashed potatoes. Wash and cut the potatoes in 1/2, Microwave till soft enough to smash. Place potatoes on a cooking sheet or parchment paper top and bottom. Use a sauce pan to smash the potatoes flat. Remove the top sheet. Cook skin side down conventional oven 375 degrees for 45 min. Cook till golden brown and crispy. No condiments oil or butter needed!
I “resolved” type II diabetes eating POUNDS of potatoes- white, yellow, purple, sweet, red, etc. 😋😋😋
Plant based has helped a lot in every aspect for me. Thanks
Cooking method is critical toward healthiness of the food in focus.
Best to worst: steaming, boiling, sauteing, broiling, grilling, oil frying.
...#1. Microwave......🤪🤪🤪
Love potatoes. Great show. TY.
Mmmm potatoes!
Thank you for your work!!
I make a large pot of soup every 5 or 6 days with 8 vegetables and either beans or lentils. One of the vegetables is potatoes just like the people in Sardinia Italy and Ikaria Greece who eat potatoes regularly in their soup. No fast food no highly processed foods and either no animal products or limiting animal products to much less than 10% of your diet is the way to go.
The way to go is no animals at all in our diets.
Me too. It’s my favourite meal. I could eat it every day.
I love potato. Always have. Up until air-fryers came out most of my potato's were steamed with skin on. Now I've been pre-cooking and chilling potato and then reheat with the air fryer. I'm wondering if we were better off without air fryers?
I eat mine the same way, I love them - you don't really need anything on them when you cook them that way. I also make potato/leek soup which I love, dairy free of course.
I'd probably stick too steams since air fryers create acrylamides in foods
Potatoes, number 1 food in times of famine. 😁
Which says a lot.
Love the breakdown
Whole Foods still has purple sweet potatoes available even in July (supposedly out of season). Ps don’t forget about acrilamide-I boil mine (lower temp)
@@pdblouin you could try looking at Frieda’s website and perhaps they can tell you where to get near you.
Asian supermarkets rule, also great place to get tofu
I love those so much, I wish they were around all year long!
@@eelkeaptroot1393 Same price ($3 per block) for me.
There’s purple sweet potatoes at Target!
Desde que le sigo y me documento con toda la información de su web, he podido cambiar los alimentos que ingiero y la manera en que los cocino. Papas fritas en la AirFryer muy raras veces, cuando el plato lo requiere (más por no variar mucho el platillo). Cuando de tubérculos se trata, más consumo camote morado, por lo general al vapor y menos veces, al horno o en la AirFryer
I eat Stokes purple potatoes. I eat about 4 a week cooked in the microwave.
Excellent!
Thanks, Dr. Greger.
your thoughts on the change in starch in the potatoes, when they are cooked and then cooled before eating?
🤪the way I feel after all that. I think I’ll just play it safe and stick to sweet potatoes.
Thank you for this confirmation!
Love potatos.. Eat em with bbq sauce. Lol Apparently I'm not supposed to because of my kidney disease but I still do..
Thanks for sharing. Helpful info. 👏👍
I love my potatoes. I have given up many things, but potatoes will not be one of them😊
I eat three meals of well cooked pulses, 1. white beans 2. black eyed bean aka fava 3. chickpeas. I do that because I workout, the issue is that I got gas which ruin my days, I can't go anywhere that long bcuz I need to fart a big one and maybe go to the bathroom to flush some of those high fiber foods like oats as well, the Q will I get any disease if I keep doing the same food everyday, may I get colon/digestive cancer or something like that?
I air fry spuds and they are tasty & nutritious.
The biggest takeaway here is that you can’t reliably control for everything.
What about air-fried? no oil or seasoning used.
They don’t even discuss sweet potatoes. The Okinawa were pretty healthy consuming 1/2 their diet of sweet potatoes!! Most people inUSA do not eat plain potatoes with skin!!
MC DOUGALL WILL FIGHT YOU!!
Why? My takeaway was that Dr. Greger determined potatoes are healthy… unless they are fried. Dr. McDougal is anti- any fats, even avocados and nuts.
In a previous video Dr. Greger said the glycemic load of potatoes can be drastically reduced by cooking, refrigerating, then reheating. (Turns the simple starch into “resistant” starch) I always have some in the refrigerator.
I especially like to boil or steam the small potatoes sold in assorted colors. After refrigeration, I smash them and crisp them in the air fryer. Who needs French fries?
mcDougall claims potatoes are basically a miracle food, which evidently they are not. we can do better than potatoes. McDougall is wrong
@@smilebot484 You obviously missed the entire point of the video. 🤪
@@soniajacobs3038 Exactly my thoughts Sonia! And Amen to boiling spuds in their jackets then chilling them til meal time, then smashing & air frying! SUPER YUM with tomato sauce but personally i love them with that healthy fat-free vegan cheese sauce doing the rounds that is easy to make in a blender with just carrots, potatoes & spices! PS...my method for smashing them is pressing down on each cold spud with the bottom of a jam jar to flatten them, then pressing with a potato masher so they are thin but have textured prickly bits sticking up, which crisp up like crunchy heaven in the air fryer!
@@smilebot484 McDougall is not wrong, you can live and thrive on potatoes and sweet potatoes only, for as long as you want or need to. He doesn't talk about "miracle foods" but he does call potatoes and sweet potatoes "the perfect food" because you will not only live but regain your health by making them the cornerstone of your diet. An Australian man, Andrew Spudfit Taylor, ate only potatoes and sweet potatoes for a whole year, lost 120 pounds and cure himself of a host of health problems, without incurring any deficiencies. Countless others have done it since, look up "The Spudfit Challenge". No other foods can do that on their own. So yes, potatoes are special and you cannot do much better than them for a sole all-rounder nutrition powerhouse, or as the foundation of a healthy diet.
queue up the McDougal fan club.
👍👍
Okay, anecdotic I know - I fasted for 24 hours with water only. My BP dropped and I lost 3 lbs. I am thinking that I am abusing the salt shaker, and using products w/ a lot of sodium.
I love potatoes but it isn't good for my Psoriasis.
What about glyphosate use on gmo potato crops?
I wonder if the studies control for weight. There was no mention of that, so I assume not.
Any chance these studies took into account the amount of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, GMO's, and other chemicals and heavy metals in the potatoes? I love all potatoes, but they are definitely a sink for contamination and since they are so popular, ie. fries I'm sure there are some seriously unscrupulous methods for getting the best bang for the buck growing them, just look at the contracts McDonald's has with growers, it's scary. Grow your own if you can, it's really easy 😊
I only eat purple potatoes. How about them?
Oh no, don't come for the *only* non-salad thing plant-based eaters can usually order at normal restaurants!
French fries in an air fryer, no oil. Is this healthy or is there an issue with air frying potatoes?
acrylamides...extra virgin olive oil sprinkled on your potato is antiflamatory or is non-commercial butter (I found raw from grass fed cows in Normandy hence still with enzymes that help to digest diary for those with weak microbiota)
I used to follow Dr Greger a lot but I went cold on him when he condemned potatoes 🤣. Good he's backpedaling now.
I am team McDougall 100 percent.
I think he is realizing that it is the company that potatoes keep that is the real problem. This whole business of trying to tease out the effects of one plant product on health are so complicated that scientists begin to lose credibility when they make such attempts.
Did the researchers control for weight?
Yet 70 years ago potatoes eaters didn’t get type 2 like now
VEGAN FOR LIVE
I have a theory about eating potatoes.
Potatoes aren't unhealthy to eat, but eating potatoes can be unhealthy!
Potatoes are cheap, satiating and large in volume.
One may eat some meat, fish, fowl or some vegan protein and eat a couple baked potatoes and have no room left for any multi color fruits, vegetables, legumes or grains, then, being derived of all the many nutrients derived from such.
Just do what I do.
Eat a couple of tangerine sized potatoes, THOROUGHLY CLEANED WITH SKINS ON.
You'll get the nutritional benefits of potatoes, their hungry curbing quality and the full benefits of other whole foods, that one includes in the meal.
White potatoes have one of the worst glycemic effects, meat or not. Not a health food.
🤓 uhmm, actually, it's pronounced "taters"
Potatoes without oil or anything else added raises my blood sugar. Fruit does not though.
My husband has the same problem. After some research, we've found that cooking, then cooling the potatoes in the fridge, then reheating them (this creating resistant starch) solved that problem. Same with white rice. Google resistant starch for more info. Good luck.
Is it the same for any kind of fruit? Like mangoes or red grapes?
Dr. Greger has said before that potatoes should be cooked, refrigerated, and reheated to decrease the glycemic load. Chilling changes the simple starch to resistant starch.
@@tgiflying Yes. Any fruit makes my diabetes easy to control.
That's most likely because sugar has a low glycemic index, the fructose part which is often higher than glucose in fruits is goes to your liver to be processed in the same way as alcohol and if excessive leads to fatty liver disease. Definitely eat fruits but don't chug down litres of commercial fruit juice which is usually cooked and fibre removed.
GMO Hybrid potatoes is what you need to stay clear from, do this.............buy a contaminated potato from Idaho and a organic potato, put both in your pantry for 7 days and look at the results, you will not like what you see.
Nearly all crops now are alien to our gut and immune system. And then of course there is the Roundup issue.
I just polished off a nice juicy steak. Have fun with your solanine and chaconine!!🙃
If you're stupid enough to eat a steak, you must also be stupid enough to eat green potatoes; that's the main way you can get those two rare form of poisons. 🙄
Have an angioplasty for desert. 😂
I “resolved” type II diabetes eating POUNDS of potatoes- white, yellow, purple, sweet, red, etc. 😋😋😋