Quote: (02-12-2015 01:17 AM)rdvirus Wrote:
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This is typical health propaganda. Remember these are the same establishment hacks who made the food pyramid.
Yes sweet potato is very high in vitamin A, but that is a nutrient that people in the west are abundant in. The average American already gets at least 300% of thier recommend amount due to thier high consumption of meats, especially pork, that have more potent retinal-type compounds versus the caratonoids found in sweets and carrots. More issue are arising from vitamin A toxicity and overagges in our diets versus any deficincies. The fact they could not even dig that deep to point that out shows they don't know what they are talking about.
Americans lack on potassium and magnesium much more. In Canada barley even 10% of people get thier daily requirements and this is all because they are mostly source found in deep rich vegtebales and fish which we in the west consume less off each year. From a nessary nutritional standpoint the white potato is superior in that it gives the people what they need.
The sweet potato has just turned into a lazy super food. The health goons all just talk about French fries and other lazy foods Americans snack on and take the lazy approach to just tell Americans to swap for sweets which are 'healthier' then fried potatoes but they forget you need fats such as mayo to make them taste good which sorta cancels things out.
Plus the other shcoker is the industry scam on the vegetables themsleves. It's hard to get a real "sweet potato" outside of the USA. What many think of a "sweet potato" are just variants of yams. A natural sweet potato is never actually that orange in its meat, but since that is what we are accustomed to know the industry won't change it. The purple Japanese sweet potatoes are much better. I prefer them to the "sweets" we get here as I don't need to add anything to them. I can bake them in foil and add salt and pepper, that's it.
I want somebody to show me a fatty who got fat just eating baked mashed potatoes with olive oil and salt and pepper, you won't find one. Its the rice fallacy. In sub-saharan African some poor and marginalized populations get 80%+ of their energy from carbs mostly cheap filler like rice and yet they are rack thin and under weight.