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I ran across this one from George Washington Carver where he talks about carbs as fat formers. In a bulletin about sweet potatoes, 1936.

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A glance at the table below will convince the most skeptical of its superiority over many of the standard foodstuffs.

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AVERAGE COMPOSITION 
Food Material    Protein or Muscle Builders   Carbohydrates or Fat Formers
Mangel Beet      1.4 per cent                 26.4 per cent
Turnip           1.1 per cent                 11.4 per cent
Rutabaga         1.2 per cent                 9.3 per cent
Carrot           1.1 per cent                 9.0 per cent
Parsnip          1.6 per cent                 7.6 per cent
Sweet Potato 	 1.5 per cent                 7.6 per cent

We readily see that the potato contains practically as much muscle-building material as any, and more than double that of the fat formers.