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There are so many ways we eat potatoes—baked, mashed, hashed, fried, scalloped, roasted, and more—but should we be eating them at all?
Potatoes and Diabetes
In 2006, the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study, which had followed the diets and diseases of tens of thousands of women for 20 years, found that greater potato intake was associated with a greater likelihood of getting type 2 diabetes, but of the hundred or so pounds of white potatoes Americans eat every year, most are deep fried and consumed as potato chips or french fries, and deep-fried foods are known to contain advanced glycation end products (AGEs), which we know are unhealthful. Researchers have found that just three servings of french fries a week is associated with a…