The Potato: Healthier Than You Think


The low-carb cults have maligned the potato as a poor choice for nutrition but consider the facts:

Potatoes have more potassium than bananas
Potatoes are gluten free
Potatoes have 15% of the recommended daily fiber content
Potatoes have 27% of the recommended vitamin B6
Potatoes have 28% of the recommended amount of vitamin C
Potatoes have a higher concentration of protein than Whey and a higher biologic value than soy beans
Boiled potatoes provide the highest satiety score of most foods

While it has a high glycemic index, the immediate spike in blood glucose after eating has NEVER been shown to be deleterious in the long run.

A person can live on a diet of potatoes for years – one in three Irish did prior to the potato famine

If you want a healthy diet you will give up fries, but you will include some baked or boiled potatoes – but use simple seasonings to reduce caloric intake.

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You probably first saw Dr. Simpson on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Dr. Terry Simpson received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, where he spent several years in the Kovler Viral Oncology laboratories doing genetic engineering. Until he found he liked people more than Petri dishes. After a career in surgery, his focus is to make sense of the madness, and bust myths. Dr. Simpson, an advocate of culinary medicine, believes in teaching people to improve their health through their food and in their kitchen. On the other side of the world, he has been a leading advocate of changing health care to make it more "relationship based," and his efforts awarded his team the Malcolm Baldrige award for healthcare in 2018 and 2011 for the NUKA system of care in Alaska and in 2013 Dr Simpson won the National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award. A frequent contributor to media outlets discussing health related topics and advances in medicine, he is also a proud dad, author, cook, and doctor “in that order.” For media inquiries, please visit www.terrysimpson.com.