Anti-Potato Bias

Once more the potato is under attack from yet another study brandishing the potato as a leader in the nation’s problem with weight gain. The study, which is out of Harvard, claims that eating extra servings of potatoes can add to weight gain; along with extra servings of certain proteins and other starches. And here again one has to ask, isn’t the “extra” the part of that equation that is the real catalyst for weight gain. The more you eat, the more you’re going to weigh, if you don’t have sufficient counter activity. Pair the overeating of any food with how it is prepared, saturating it in butter, or smothering it in cheese for instance, will introduce weight gain. What frustrated parent of a toddler hasn’t been tempted to get them to eat their vegetables with cheese as a disguise topping? It is interesting to learn that one of this study’s main researchers, professor Walter Willett, has made it his personal goal to debase the potato. He has written several reports, and even books with an anti-potato theme. What caused Willett’s unnatural anti-potato bias one can only guess. We can only guess too how seemingly intelligent people can be so obtuse.