Do potato eaters live longer or shorter than those who do not eat potatoes?
Is there any relationship between potato consumption and incidence of high blood pressure? Harvard researchers followed examined the diets and diseases of more than 100,000 men and women for decades and found that those who ate potatoes most days — not just French fries and potato chips, but also mashed, boiled or baked — had a higher risk of developing high blood pressure. but what do people put But Potato? Not to mention salt and butter, so could potatoes be just innocent bystanders? Researchers attempted to understand the effects of salt and saturated fat, and there still appears to be an association between potato consumption and high blood pressure.
Maybe there are people who eat meat and people who eat potatoes. After all, these are the same Harvard researchers found Meat, including poultry, appears to be linked to an increased risk of high blood pressure, and the same is true for canned tuna in moderate amounts. Therefore, in studying potatoes, they were careful Effort To address any ill effects of consuming meat of all types of animals. Nevertheless, they still found an increased risk and became concerned that linking potato consumption to high blood pressure could be a “serious public health problem”. It was believed that potatoes might actually reduce high blood pressure, because of their high potassium content, but they found evidence of the opposite effect.
As I discussed in my video Do potatoes increase risk of high blood pressure and death?two similar studies Exhibited However, no association was found between potato consumption and high blood pressure in Mediterranean Europe. Maybe that’s because they don’t smother their potatoes in butter and sour cream in that area of the woods and instead eat the potatoes with other vegetables. Now, Harvard researchers tried to control for the salty and fatty dietary components associated with eating potatoes in the West, just like these researchers tried to cut out all the excess vegetables, but you can’t control everything.
One of the main reasons we care about blood pressure is that we care about its consequences. In two studies conducted in Sweden, where they mainly eat their potatoes by boiling, there was no evidence found Potato consumption was linked to increased risk of major heart diseases. There was no association between potato consumption and risk of premature death found Either in southern Italy. However, potato consumption in the United States was low Connected With increased mortality: the risk of dying from heart disease increased by 65%, the risk of fatal stroke increased by 26%, the risk of dying from cancer increased by 50%, and the risk of dying from all causes increased. However, this association disappeared after adjustment for confounding factors. In other words, it wasn’t a potato at all. Potato eaters must smoke more, drink more, or eat more saturated fat or something. Once you control for all these other factors, the association between potatoes and death disappears.
this was Confirmed In the NIH-AARP study, the largest study of diet and health in human history. If you exclude only potatoes, researchers found that they are not associated with an increased risk of death, with the possible exception of French fries, which are associated with an increased risk of dying from cancer. Put all the studies together—20 in total—and there was no significant association. found The link between potato consumption and mortality, though, again, may be fried potatoes. Happen Exception. Even just twice a week, independent of other factors, fries can double one’s risk of dying prematurely, but consumption of non-fried potatoes appears to be neutral.
I’ve talked a lot about how not all plant foods are created Similar, as well as healthy versus unhealthy plant-based diets. To this end, the researchers created not only an overall plant-based diet index (PDI) – scoring only plant versus animal foods – but also a healthy plant-based diet index (HPDI) and an unhealthy plant-based diet index (UPDI). The healthy index puts more emphasis on whole plant foods, while the unhealthy index scores how many low-quality plant foods you’re eating, grouping potatoes with soda, cake, and Wonder Bread. When you run the numbers, the more plant-based you are eatThe longer you live, and the lower your risk of heart disease. In other words, more plant foods and fewer animal foods are associated with a significantly lower risk of dying prematurely. However, this benefit was limited to those who ate healthy plant-based foods. However, researchers were surprised to find that people eating a less healthy plant-based diet combined with processed plant-based junk food did not live shorter lives. Perhaps this is simply because they were eating less animal products, and this is actually the primary determinant of lifespan here, or perhaps the lack of association between a less healthy plant-based diet and mortality was because potatoes were coming to the rescue. And indeed, higher potato intake appeared to be protective; Therefore, given these conflicting results, future studies may consider adding fried potatoes to the unhealthy list.
Now, in terms of mortality, there can be no fried potatoes Happen Just as bad as fried meat – fried chicken and fried fish – but that’s not really saying much. French fry/death data has dealt a bit of a blow to industry trade group Potatoes USA, reminding Readers believe that observational studies can only prove correlation, not causation, which the authors argue. replied“Our data add to the pressure to limit public health calls to limit consumption of fried potatoes.” French fries can be so harmful to you that it wouldn’t be ethical to do a conventional study and randomize people to eat them.
doctor’s note
This is the second part in a five-part series on potatoes. was the first installment Does potato increase the risk of diabetes?.
Apart from French fries, potato consumption is not associated with mortality. Those who eat potatoes live equally as well as those who do not eat potatoes. This is really bad news. A complete plant food that has nothing to do with longevity? One that has a neutral effect on lifespan? That’s a lost opportunity. But what if you really like white potatoes? Then you should cool them and reheat them, as I’ll explain in my next video.
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