Potatoes get a bad rap, even a terrible rap. They were demonised in the Atkins diet days as terrible food for you and sole cause of the obesity epidemic (by some anyway).
A lady in the gym told me this week that in the supermarket, there was a whole aisle of potato products. Potatoes in cream, potatoes with bacon and cheese, just about every combination you could think of (and ones you definitely couldn’t).
Then the plain, farm grown potatoes were in another small section on their own!!
There is the problem, Putting all kinds of rubbish with the potato and trying to present it as “good for you, when the reality if different.
A normal potato is relatively low calories when there’s nothing on it. Add creamy products, with lots of chemicals and additives from the laboratory and you are asking for trouble. Worst of all these added products are sweet and addictive and make you want to eat plenty more than you think.
Potatoes are great for energy, and sweet potatoes an even better source with a slow release of energy which is unlikely to deposit as fat. Add a little olive oil on top and you had your own home made version of chips, and far better for you.
“Carbs are all bad” is a very general term and ultimately factually untrue.
Simple foods in their natural state without lots of chemically filled additives are great for you. Learn to eat well but always keep it natural. You will not only fuel your workouts right, you will drop body fat, build muscle and keep your insides ultra healthy for years to come. A chemical free body will always win long term.
