Man Ate Only Potatoes For 60 Days. Here’s What Happened To His Health
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From lower cholesterol to improved blood sugar, a 60-day potato-only experiment revealed surprising health benefits.
  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This happened 16 years ago, and makes no mention of his bloodwork aside from basic cholesterol stuff. Would like to see a little more balanced information on the negative impacts of this. Clearly you can’t live on only potatoes forever.

    Even Mark Watney supplemented with a multivitamin (and vicodin).

    • PapaSkwat@lemmy.wtf
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      1 month ago

      If you drink milk, and yeah, a multivitamin, you’re good to go. Pretty much covers all your body needs. I’ve been doing it for almost 2 years. No issues, and my bloods came out fine at my health checkup.

      In the 18th and early 19th centuries, (before the Great Famine) lots rural Irish families lived for decades on a diet that was overwhelmingly potatoes + buttermilk/milk. They often ate 5–8+ pounds of potatoes per day. This diet was credited with keeping them relatively healthy and producing tall, strong men (many Irish were prized as soldiers/recruits partly because of it).

  • PapaSkwat@lemmy.wtf
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    1 month ago

    I’ve read about other people doing this in the past. There was a study by a guy back in 1912, Dr. Mikkel Hindhede who wanted to prove that a very simple diet could keep a person perfectly healthy.

    One of his laboratory assistants, Frederik Madsen, volunteered for the experiment. For an entire year, Madsen ate nothing but potatoes and milk (sometimes described as potatoes + buttermilk or potatoes + a little fat). He stayed totally healthy the whole time, with no deficiencies, full energy, and perfect physical condition.

    Also, I have personal knowledge of this style of eating. Because I do almost same thing. Six days a week, I only eat potatoes and milk. On saturdays I eat beans, rice, and corn tortillas. (I was inspired by the Hindhede study, by the way)

    I’ve done it for almost 2 years and no issues at all. I did it mostly for savings, since I wanted to cut my budget really low, so I could hurry up and pay off my house (which I had already been working on paying off by working overtime and side jobs.)

    It worked. I paid off my house last year. Now no mortgage at all. :)

    And I work out every day, and last medical check up showed that I’m ideal weight, ideal health, no issues at all.

    After reading how many Lemmy posters are overweight, um, I think a lot of people should try the potatoes only thing. It sucks for first 2 weeks, but then your body adjusts tho.