Eating potatoes does not cause heart disease

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The widespread opinion of some experts that potatoes are dangerous for health, not confirmed. Scientists have found that a potato diet, on the contrary, can be useful.

Potatoes are full of useful nutrients, including vitamins and minerals, but usually for some reason nutritionists advise to eat as little potatoes as possible or to exclude them from the diet altogether. This is usually associated with the fact that potatoes allegedly increase the likelihood of cardiometabolic diseases, that is, cardiovascular pathologies and diabetes.

But scientists from Boston University in a meta-analysis involving more than 350,000 people refuted this. They investigated how potatoes affect human health if they are part of a regular diet. It turned out that potatoes do not increase any risk of cardiometabolic diseases. And both in fried and boiled form. Moreover, in some cases, the inclusion of potatoes in the diet was even beneficial.

It was found that the more often people ate potatoes, the more they had other fruits and vegetables in their diet, sometimes by 25% more. Therefore, they most often corresponded to the recommendations given by nutritionists in their nutrition. This study began back in 1971, so it covered a huge amount of information and is exhaustive.