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Chris Voigt of the Washington State Potato Commission spent 60 days on a 20-potatoes-a-day diet. He is our guest today on the Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.
Chris Voight believes that potatoes are an unfairly maligned food. Working in the potato industry, he decided to make a very public gesture to demonstrate that fact: he ate nothing besides 20 potatoes a day for 60 days in a row–even on Thanksgiving! Much like Tom Naughton from the FAT HEAD documentary, he lost weight but advises that you should consult your doctor before trying any weight loss technique. How was his health? Did he get sick of spuds? Tune in to find out the facts in today’s episode!
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Wow, with results like Chris has gotten after his diet, this is definitely a strange case if I’ve ever seen one.
Very counterintuitive to those of us who have been metabolically damaged. I wonder if he’d see the same results if he used to weigh 400+ pounds.
I am pleased to know they are full of nutients as our early crop of Jersey Bennies is about to be harvested. I think the consumption rate will be 2 or 3 a week, not 20/day!
I am a little concerned abut the controversy regarding skin… I do like it on, but I could be convinced to peel them.
Interesting, especially about his triglycerides. I guess if you don’t have messed up metabolism it will work for you.
I don’t think I could eat plain potato for 60 days, though! That took guts! 🙂
ABOUT TGs: Can someone who is technical help out my understanding of where the triglycerides measured in the blood come from? I do not understand the technical articles. But I think people get TG’s from a combination of consuming fats (bile helps absorb them from intestinal tract) and from carbs (liver converts into fatty acids and then into TG’s.) If that is so, then I think a person could reduce TG’s by restricting fats, or by restricting carbs, or by restricting intake altogether. So in his case, he was restricting fats and using up most of his carbs just to meet his daily calorie requirements.
Here is another question. Some things I read make me think starches and sucrose go directly to the bloodstream and do not go to the liver to be made into TG’s. I thought alcohol and fructose go the liver route. Can someone help me understand how that part works?
ABOUT BG: It seems like that many grams of carbs would be a challenge for even a normal pancreas, but I have read that the pancreas prepares and stores up insulin for the next meal based on how much was needed for the last meal. If that is so, his pancreas appears to have been able to quickly produce enough insulin to escort the glucose into the cells. And his cells had no resistance – they quickly and easily took in and burned all the glucose he consumed.
I have one comment. It must be nice to have a body like that!!!
Great episode. I always thought potatoes were very high in carbs. Being Irish I love potatoes but find it hard to believe that much consumption could be healthy.