Potato industry targets trendy Paleo diet
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http://www.eastoregonian.com/eo/loc...endy-paleo-diet |
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Hello? Did the potato industry marketing board just awake to the idea that the Paleo diet excludes over-hybridized white potatoes? Do they realize sweet and purple potatoes are allowed? Where have they been the last decade? Particularly ironic that by Google search rankings the Paleo diet is now less popular than the term Ketogenic, which wouldn't allow any form of starchy tubers. https://www.dietdoctor.com/paleo-movement-dying. The article about the Ketogenic Diet is planned for 2025. ;) And speaking of The Ketogenic Diet, a new slideshow about it was in the WebMD newsletter and is available on the website, a number of the slides are about the health benefits! http://www.webmd.com/diet/ss/slideshow-ketogenic-diet |
For some reason, sustainability of low carb and paleo diets are things that need to be proven--but sustainability of a "moderation" approach that can simply be fitted into a person's lifestyle etc. is something that can just be assumed.
Restriction bad, moderation good. Check your dictionary, these two words are synonymous to some degree, moderation has lost its true meaning of "the avoidance of excess or extremes," and come to mean "I can haz french fries?" The total restriction of potatoes or sugar is not extreme, because we don't actually need these in our diet. What is moderate? Eating pure cyanide is not moderate, risking some trace cyanide from flax seed consumption can be moderate, the dose makes the poison. The amount of potato or carbohydrate that raises my blood glucose beyond a certain point, or that had my blood pressure going further into hypertension as I got older was not moderate. A food is not moderate, my body's response to a food is what matters. I need a diet that allows my body to maintain a certain homeostasis, a balanced metabolism is what matters, as Dr. Atkins professed, if that requires an "unbalanced" diet, then so be it. Also--defense of balanced approaches, that doesn't come in when the potato industry is busy with "the all potato diet" type stunts. Stunts that I have no trouble with--the fact that the people who do these often do show some real metabolic improvements only illustrates my theme here, it's not a matter of how ridiculous your diet isn't, it all comes down to how well your body is capable of balancing things in response to given inputs. |
The potato industry is responding to lost profits, not lost health.
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The DD article prompted me to do a comparison. Little to do with the price of potatoes but I thought it interesting. Those little paleo spikes happen around the first of the years, I suppose people looking to take a break from pounding themselves with sugar. I expect the "keto" line to be the same with nothing really learned.
to quote the rock singer Sting in one of his songs, "Men go crazy in congregations but only get better one by one..." True on the internets. True here; Both the crazy and better part. |
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I totally agree. Let's illustrate. Potatoes once in a while is moderation. Since it's not always potatoes, it follows that it creates good diversity to eat something else, also once in a while. When it comes to eating something, "none" is a valid choice. In fact, it's not just a valid choice, it's the first choice, i.e. are we hungry? Yes or no, where "no" means we eat none of it. Let's widen our interpretation of moderation and good diversity. Let's say we eat Paleo sometimes, Atkins sometimes, some other diet sometimes, and so forth. Doing this adheres to the imperative of moderation, where we do not eat any excess of any particular diet for any length of time. And by the very nature of this method, we also adhere to the imperative of good diversity, where we eat a much wider variety of all available foods. Unfortunately for the potato people, this means potatoes will form only a tiny fraction of the total food eaten. By their very nature, all diets restrict some food or other. In fact, the official guidelines restrict fat and meat. I have an idea. Instead of a guideline that tells us what to eat and what not to eat, how about a guideline that gives us solid information about food so we can make informed decisions for ourselves. We're adults after all, we should be able to decide, ya? |
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I have oft quoted that but never heard anyone else do so! PJ |
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Well there you have it. It's only restrictive if your "lifestyle" demands it. So the lifestyle is really the issue. Any lifestyle that can't function properly without being able to have french fries and wheat regularly, you can either change your eating to include them, or change your lifestyle to not need to include them. Ironically, with some exceptions, anybody they are likely to hire to feature in marketing campaigns selling their potatoes, will be people who spend a decent chunk of time restricting their diet to not include potatoes. PJ |
A local paper had a similar article this week, but the person being interviewed - a Washington potato farmer - blamed the "fad" of Atkins. But he said the dip in sales only lasted for a few years & went right back up again. NE Washington & Idaho potatoes are mostly sent to processors, so I guess people still wanted their frozen fries & dehydrated mashed potatoes & hashbrowns.
And someone is eating my share! Come to think of it, my husband's share too, as he doesn't eat fries & only rarely has regular potatoes. |
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