20 potatos a day for 60 days!!

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He did it, he finished his 'diet'.

http://www.20potatoesaday.com/index.html



In the end he says he lost 9.5 kilograms, his cholesterol level went from 214
to 147, and his glucose dropped from 104 to 94.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/washington-man-completes-60-
day-potato-challenge/story-e6frfku0-1225963611024#ixzz16nmIJnLy

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Peter Lucas
Hobart
Tasmania

The act of feeding someone is an act of beauty,
whether it's a full Sunday roast or a jam sandwich,
but only when done with love.
 
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:38:19 -0600, Sqwertz
wrote:


I wonder how many pounds of potatoes go into making one pound of
commercial (Lays, etc.) potato chips, I'd guess close to five pounds.
 
"Sqwertz" wrote in message
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I sometimes get a baked potato in a restaurant. I do put salt on it and
also pepper. It is actually good this way. Better of course with butter or
margarine, but sometimes I can't have those. Daughter eats hers with
ketchup...but...yuck!
 
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:58:59 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:


I can't imagine eating 20 potatoes a day even if they had everything
on them. I love potatoes, but two would be my limit and certainly not
every day.

--

Never trust a dog to watch your food.
 
Dan Abel wrote:

Low fat diets work for some people. To claim otherwise is irrational.
Low fat diets cause problems for some people. To claim otherwise is to
follow USDA advice, uhm I mean irrational.

Eating almost nothing but potatoes would eventually cause malnutrition.
It's true of almost any other food as well.
 
Dan Abel wrote:

Not at all. That's just anecdotal conjecture based on a single individual
with an obvious agenda. It's a classic example of disinformation.

He stopped eating a whole lot of stuff. You have to factor that in when
trying to assign a cause to the *alleged* changes in his bloodwork. It's not
just the potatoes, and what he did eat, but more importantly, it's also what
he *didn't* eat. The notion that potatoes are the cause of changes in his
bloodwork is the result of intentionally confounded data by virtue of
wholesale omissions of relevant information and baseline testing.

It's a decent stab at a publicity stunt on behalf of Washington potatoes
though, I'll give him that.

MartyB
 
In article ,
sf wrote:


If the potatoes were the size Dan said, I could probably eat five a
day. Were other vegetables allowed, or just potatoes? What was the
point of this?

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
In article ,
"Nunya Bidnits" wrote:


I completely disagree. This is a classic example of a particular type
of information. It's not very useful, true, but it is a single data
point. It's a counterclaim, not a claim. It's not an anecdotal
conjecture, it's an anecdotal counterexample.


In fact, a more likely conjecture is that he last a lot of weight (20
pounds in two months) because he was sick of a diet consisting solely of
potatoes, and that the lowering of blood cholesterol and blood sugar was
probably due to that loss of weight.


Yup. And maybe that's a good thing. Some people whine about how a
single potato totally wrecks their day's diet. Here's a guy who ate 20
every day, for two months, without gaining weight, increasing his
cholesterol or increasing his blood sugar.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]
 
Dan Abel wrote in
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http://www.20potatoesaday.com/20_potatoes_a_day_002.htm

Diet Facts

"A person my height and weight needs to consume 2200 calories a day just to
maintain my weight. An average potato (5.3 oz) contains 110 calories. I'll
need to eat 20 potatoes a day to maintatin my weight. Below is an example of
the nutrients I'll be getting from my 20 potatoes a day..."

Vitamin C 942%
Vitamin B6 423%
Potassium 345%
Dietary Fiber 252%
Maganese 220%
Magnesium 165%
Phosphorus 164%
Copper 155%
Thiamin 153%
Niacin 151%
Iron 124%
Protein 116%
Folate 115%
Pantothenic Acid 85%
Vitamin K 68%
Zinc 55%
Ribofalvin 54%
Calcium 34%
Selenium 12%
Vitamin E 1%
Vitamin A 1%


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Peter Lucas
Hobart
Tasmania

The act of feeding someone is an act of beauty,
whether it's a full Sunday roast or a jam sandwich,
but only when done with love.
 
Dan Abel wrote:

And useless as far as drawing any sound conclusions, regarless of how you
define it.


That's another potential theory which makes a lot more sense than his
suggested conclusion.


And as noted, he didn't eat anything else, therefore probably bypassing many
important nutrients as well as other sources of carbs and fat. A single
potato can indeed wreck your daily diet if you need to limit carbs, as many
people do. A single potato with all the stuff people dress it with can do
plenty of damage to a diet, but in that case they have probably misplaced
the blame that should fall upon the added butter, sour cream, bacon bits,
etc. A potato can't do it by itself. ,

However a single potato can wreck any diet if it's the extra serving food
the person should not have eaten to maintain their ideal intake of
carbs/calories. Any time it's a matter of too high an intake of calories and
fat, you can erroneously conclude that it is any one of the foods eaten,
when in fact it is the accumulation of foods that makes the difference. I
think you're talking about an issue of self control, not some undiscovered
wonderful properties of potatoes.

And BTW, there's no cholesterol in potatoes, so the only remarkable number
would be if it did *not* go down.

I still view this as nothing but a publicity stunt, but I'll give you
"anectdotal counterexample" as opposed to "disinformation", noting that
functionally they are no different in this case. There is very little
science involved, and the conclusions can be figured to be wrong, as well as
skewed by an advance agenda, with the application of a little comomon
sense.

Don't mistake any of this for me knocking potatoes. I love the damn things!

MartyB
 
Brooklyn1 wrote:

Absolutely not. Almost the entire thing is used to make potato chips. Where
do you figure the other four pounds are going, into the atmosphere? If that
was the case we would have potato air pollution. ;-)

If you've ever made home made potato chips you would know that the waste is
extremely minimal.

The question should be how much of the weight of the bag of chips is made up
of oil, which has nothing to do with the efficiency of the use of potatoes.

MartyB



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sf wrote:

Yeah, but the guy who made the claims is a representative of some Washington
state potato producers association. So at least he had a reason for
torturing hiimself. If it was me, I'd be expecting a substantial bonus in
return for making such a bizarre sacrifice.

MartyB
 
In article ,
"Nunya Bidnits" wrote:

[snip]


You're joking, right? I've not only eaten potato chips, but I've made
them. They shrink something unbelievable.

From:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

Potatoes are 83% water.

Potato chips are 2% water.

So, if you take 5 pounds of raw potatoes and make chips, you will lose
almost all the water, which would leave one pound of chips. That
doesn't quite work out, because there's a lot of fat in the chips (36%).
Still, that's close enough.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]
 
In article
,
Ranee at Arabian Knits wrote:




Just potatoes. And five wouldn't be enough for you (by my calculation).
If Mariam is totally breast fed, you would need to eat nine just to
supply enough calories for her. And since you are active, you would
need something less than 20 to supply *your* calorie needs. That's one
of the lessons of this exercise, that potatoes are not really that high
in calories. From the web site:

http://www.20potatoesaday.com/20_potatoes_a_day_002.htm

"A person my height and weight needs to consume 2200 calories a day just
to maintain my weight. An average potato (5.3 oz) contains 110 calories.
I'll need to eat 20 potatoes a day to maintatin my weight.A person my
height and weight needs to consume 2200 calories a day just to maintain
my weight. An average potato (5.3 oz) contains 110 calories. I'll need
to eat 20 potatoes a day to maintatin my weight."


To put Moses Lake on the map (the whole thing took place in Moses Lake).
The guy who did this is the Executive Director of the Washington State
Potato Commission.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]
 
In article
,
Dan Abel wrote:


Oh, I'm sure I'd need more than five for calories, etc. I just don't
think I could eat more than five a day. They are really filling.

According to the calculations, I'd need to eat 15 each day to meet my
caloric needs.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
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