THE POTATO: In terms of nutrition, the potato is best known for its carbohydrate content (approximately 26 grams in a medium potato). The predominant form of this carbohydrate is starch. A small but significant portion of this starch is resistant to digestion by enzymes in the stomach and small intestine, and so reaches the large intestine essentially intact. This resistant starch is considered to have similar physiological effects and health benefits as fiber: It provides bulk, offers protection against colon cancer, improves glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, lowers plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations, increases satiety, and possibly even reduces fat storage.[57][58][59] The amount of resistant starch in potatoes depends much on preparation methods.
Eat more potatoes! The potato actually ranks highest in potassium per serving among the 20 best-selling fruits and vegetables in the United States (ACNielsen).
States that grow the most potatoes effected by the new limited consumption menu in school program advised under Michelle Obama, founder of the Lets Move campaign.
2010 Petition Of Independent Researchers Urging FDA To Update Fish Advice. Over the past six years a wealth of science has been produced that shows the real risk to pregnant women and unborn children is in not eating enough fish.There is persuasive new evidence that consumption of more than 12 ounces per week of most marketplace species will actually improve fetal neurodevelopment. This improvement occurs in spite of methyl-mercury in most, if not all fish."
Let them eat aragula!!
Let the kids go out and play without everyone calling the police on them, apartment managers threatening to evict the family because of them and everyone scaring them into thinking they will be kidnapped.
If Michelle had her way out children would be sent off to work farms growing organic vegitables. Of course, that would kill the capitalist farms who could not compete with the free labor the Communist farms had.
The fad-diet-of-the-season strikes again as the newest tendentious study hits the spotlights.
Not all “starchy” veggies are created equal, and many (even potatoes) carry a goodly amount of fiber compared to traditional bread. If you go to your grocer’s freezer and look for the “diet” dinners such as Weight Watchers, Stouffers Light, etc. you’ll see they don’t shy away from these vegetables.
and you can be sure that the next time Obama needs her vote to cram-down some piece of crap legislation the school kiddies will be eating nothing BUT Maine Potatoes for the next fifteen months...
” . . .limiting total servings of starchy vegetables (potatoes, corn, green peas, and lima beans) to one cup per week . . .”
ONE CUP PER WEEK
No way the obama kids will have to live like this.