9-14 FB Harvard Potato

 I am so sick of the potato being maligned for being the source of America’s obesity. It’s total nonsense and I have somebody that agrees with me.

 In the papers recently we had pictures of baked potatoes with sour cream, bacon bits, chives, butter and cheese all over them. More pictures of French fries and tater tots. The idea? Some Harvard researcher and his thugs claim the potato is non-nutritious…just fattening. Here’s , Executive Director of the Idaho Potato Commission, Frank Muir: “ Particularly the folks that have released this recent study coming out of Harvard. My understanding is that the details of that study have yet to be released for peer review but many nutritionists and other researchers have debunked the study based on  some of the basic conclusions. It is also interesting that one of the researchers from Harvard was quoted some years ago as saying that potatoes have the nutrient equivalents of table sugar. Now how one who is supposedly a very learned scientist could take any food that is loaded with protein, fiber, vitamin C, potassium and say that is equal to table sugar is beyond me. It marks the credibility of the study.