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Why sweet potatoes?
by cauliflower2718 6y ago
Why sweet potatoes?
- mkoubaa 6y agoYeah why not cauliflower
- nwienert 6y agoOkinawa diet is some 40% sweet potatoes and top percentile life span so can’t hurt.
- foerbert 6y agoSure it could. You can't just isolate some portion of a highly complex system and claim that the isolated portion will be beneficial in any similar system. Just for an extreme example to make the point - say some diet included a poisonous component as well as the antidote. Those eating the diet may well be just fine. However if somebody else simply looked at the poisonous part and copied only that, they would not do so well. I'm not saying sweet potatoes are bad. And I'm sure this was a somewhat flippant statement, but this is the kind of thinking we're very prone to and I think it's important to recognize when it actually tries to lead us down the wrong path.
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- treeman79 6y agoYea. Never eat only one food for extended periods. This was a pure desperation move.
- nwienert 6y agoIt’s actually common for immune/allergy issues, I did rice once on a doctors recommendation, worked fine.
- nwienert 6y agoIt was a flippant statement, but it’s still more right than your righteous reply. I have experience here, literally with isolation diets for immune issues on starches, common for immunologists to run, see AIP which can start extreme down to one thing. I had a friend who had to do a super intense version, luckily, mine was quick. There’s no problem with flippant statements, just bad faith replies that try and pick fights over nothing. Also didn’t claim benefit. It’s potato. If there were some significant problem we’d have known by now.
- foerbert 6y agoI never said it was bad either. I was specifically taking umbrage with the reasoning provided - X does a lot of Y in their complex thing and gets good results, so lots of Y can't be bad - and tried to be clear about that.
- nwienert 6y ago> claim that the isolated portion will be beneficial > gets good results You claim I said it’s “good”, but I said “can’t be bad” in relation to a short term allergy diet. Your super pedantic bone you picked is based on exaggerating what I said twice and generalizing it out of context, which is funny coming from a pedant.
- UncleOxidant 6y agoNot the OP, but I'm going to guess that it's because sweet potatoes have pretty high nutritional content such that you can survive by only eating them for some time without developing deficiencies.
- treeman79 6y agoIt’s because it was literally the only food I knew that didn’t bother me. Look at AIP diet for a better plan. But this was something I could follow when I was barely able to get out of bed. Boiled or microwaved. Always plain. I Felt a lot better afterwards.
- hanniabu 6y agoFYI the AIP diet says to avoid vegetables in the nightshade family, which includes potatoes.
- UncleOxidant 6y agoSweet potatoes are not in the nightshade family.
- treeman79 6y agoI never feel bad afterwards. It’s a safe food for me. Plus it’s filling.