What appears to be missing here is context.
For example: A man's kindergartner is being completely blitzed by low-fat/high-carb indoctrination. One of the examples is that they think potatoes -- and another example, french fries and corn -- are "healthy foods". Hence they dominate lunch.
(Not because they're healthy, really; because they're insanely cheap and keep for eons in storage, freezer or can.)
I guess this led to "why potatoes are so healthy".
In theory, you could graze on your lawn, and get some nutrients. I believe any discussion on 'what is healthy' should actually have some 'comparison' value.
If you fear fat and love carbs, potatoes are healthy.
If you think a LITTLE bit of nutrients is great, they are healthy.
If you fear carbs and love fats, potatoes are not healthy.
If you think that carbs which make you NEED more nutrients are more harmful than the minor nutrients they then supply, they are not healthy.
I don't always eat VLC. Sometimes I eat up to 100g a day (not often). And my theory about carbs is this:
Food = Meat.
Veggies and Fruits are "Nature's Vitamins" in case my clan is not currently eating all the organs from that variety of meat. However, 10,000 years of humans mucking about with them means most of them are much more candy than fruit.
Legumes, roots, and some of the more-mucked-with fruit and veg do have somenutrients.
Now if I really feel like eating a potato, and for some reason nothing can interfere with my great desire to eat 2-2.5 candy bar's worth of sugar-carbs at once (better yet, the high carb WITH high fat so the combination can gradually kill me...) then I will.
I am more likely to want to eat a candy bar, at half the carbs, and just eat one. Not commonly, obviously, or I wouldn't have lost any weight at all LOL, but if the ONLY thing people think is important is counting carbs, it fit in my day.
But healthy eating isn't just about carbs. It's about an overall nutritional profile. Potatoes have a little bit of nutrition. They are pretty outweighed by the problem elements they contain, but they do have some nutrition. If someone wants to eat a potato, then damn, eat a bleepin potato! The responsibility for good eating is going to come down to individual decisions on the part of an individual, period--and I don't think that this much glucose hitting the body is good for anybody (that it may take much longer for them to develop problems from it, or that the problems may be cancer instead of diabetes, is irrelevent)--but you know what, a single potato now and then, like a single candy bar, is unlikely to actually KILL anybody outright, unless they are seriously diabetic, or addicted to carbs or potatoes in a way that it starts a free-fall.
That being said, recognizing that individuals can eat however they choose--even when lowcarb--is not really the same as agreeing with the 'promotion' of foods that barely slide under the rail of decent when the cons are weighed against the pros.
And to be specific to this thread (this somehow got lost), indoctrinating children--they did it to mine too--with the idea that potatoes and corn and bread are what you should be eating, and very much meat will hurt you and dairy should be fat-free to the degree possible, is just asinine indoctrination, and to me is a prime example of why the government should get the hell out of education altogether, since they do mostly evil with it and as time goes on, less and less good.
PJ
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