Thread: SPUDNIK

On Oct 23, 3:20*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> http://www.20potatoesaday.com/

Yuk. That's just "plain" silly!

On Oct 23, 3:20*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> http://www.20potatoesaday.com/

This is ridiculous. You can't eat any single food exclusively for 60
days and consider yourself eating healthy. Doesn't matter what it is.
A diet of nothing but apples or lettuce will leave you malnourished
for that long.

Potatoes are a nutritious vegetable if prepared without a ton of
additional fat. And they can and should be part of a healthy diet.
PART OF. Not the entire diet.

What about vitamins that are not found in potatoes? What about
Protein?

He would do the Potato board (or wherever he works) more of a service
if he simply ate a potato with each meal of the day, prepared in any
of the millions of ways potatoes can be prepared.

This guy is an idiot.

In article
<[email protected]>,
"Catmandy (Sheryl)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > http://www.20potatoesaday.com/
>
> This is ridiculous. You can't eat any single food exclusively for 60
> days and consider yourself eating healthy. Doesn't matter what it is.
> A diet of nothing but apples or lettuce will leave you malnourished
> for that long.
>
> Potatoes are a nutritious vegetable if prepared without a ton of
> additional fat. And they can and should be part of a healthy diet.
> PART OF. Not the entire diet.

Although I agree, I think it's a great publicity stunt, and hopefully,
you can't get too malnourished in 60 days.

> What about vitamins that are not found in potatoes? What about
> Protein?

Did you look at the site? Here's one page on nutrients:

http://www.20potatoesaday.com/20_potatoes_a_day_002.htm

"A person my height and weight needs to consume 2200 calories a day just
to maintain my weight. An average potato (5.3 oz) contains 110 calories.
I'll need to eat 20 potatoes a day to maintatin my weight. Below is an
example of the nutrients I'll be getting from my 20 potatoes a day...
Vitamin C 942%
Protein 116% "

There were a lot of other nutrients listed, but the cut and paste didn't
work well.

> He would do the Potato board (or wherever he works) more of a service
> if he simply ate a potato with each meal of the day, prepared in any
> of the millions of ways potatoes can be prepared.

I can't see that he would get any publicity that way, though.

> This guy is an idiot.

I think he's pretty sharp, myself.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]

On 2010-10-24, Dan Abel <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think he's pretty sharp, myself.

Maybe he's Irish.

nb

20 potatoes a day sounds like more than I can eat. I don't mean "more
potatoes than I can stand" I mean "how much stuff I can physically
pack into my digestive system".

No mention of size, but in the pic they look like average sized
Russets. Even 20 of the tiny red ones is pretty volumous.

-J

In article
<[email protected]>,
phaeton <[email protected]> wrote:

> 20 potatoes a day sounds like more than I can eat. I don't mean "more
> potatoes than I can stand" I mean "how much stuff I can physically
> pack into my digestive system".
>
> No mention of size, but in the pic they look like average sized
> Russets. Even 20 of the tiny red ones is pretty volumous.

It's all there. 148g/5.3oz, about 7 pounds a day. Those are pretty
small potatoes, but you're right, that's a lot of bulk! Still, I've
read that the Irish pretty much lived on potatoes at times. They also
had to eat that volume of potatoes to get enough calories to live on.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]

"Catmandy (Sheryl)" wrote in message
He would do the Potato board (or wherever he works) more of a service
if he simply ate a potato with each meal of the day, prepared in any
of the millions of ways potatoes can be prepared.

This guy is an idiot.

**************************************************

Did you go to the web site and read it? If the answer is yes, he is not an
idiot but a smart marketing guy.
Many of us here helped him achieve his goal.

"Dan Abel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In article
> <[email protected]>,
> "Catmandy (Sheryl)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > http://www.20potatoesaday.com/
>>
>> This is ridiculous. You can't eat any single food exclusively for 60
>> days and consider yourself eating healthy. Doesn't matter what it is.
>> A diet of nothing but apples or lettuce will leave you malnourished
>> for that long.
>>
>> Potatoes are a nutritious vegetable if prepared without a ton of
>> additional fat. And they can and should be part of a healthy diet.
>> PART OF. Not the entire diet.
>
> Although I agree, I think it's a great publicity stunt, and hopefully,
> you can't get too malnourished in 60 days.
>
>> What about vitamins that are not found in potatoes? What about
>> Protein?
>
> Did you look at the site? Here's one page on nutrients:
>
> http://www.20potatoesaday.com/20_potatoes_a_day_002.htm
>
> "A person my height and weight needs to consume 2200 calories a day just
> to maintain my weight. An average potato (5.3 oz) contains 110 calories.
> I'll need to eat 20 potatoes a day to maintatin my weight. Below is an
> example of the nutrients I'll be getting from my 20 potatoes a day...
> Vitamin C 942%
> Protein 116% "
>
> There were a lot of other nutrients listed, but the cut and paste didn't
> work well.
>
>> He would do the Potato board (or wherever he works) more of a service
>> if he simply ate a potato with each meal of the day, prepared in any
>> of the millions of ways potatoes can be prepared.
>
> I can't see that he would get any publicity that way, though.
>
>> This guy is an idiot.
>
> I think he's pretty sharp, myself.
>
> --
> Dan Abel
> Petaluma, California USA
> [email protected]

>
I'm not quite sure, but I think the Irish Potato Famine would say lots about
what people would lose if we didn't have spuds in our diets

Jill